Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3331 Section 001: Science and Culture (52182)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
Science and technology engaged through historical and cultural manifestations from film, literature, and YouTube to scientific and philosophical essays. Relations among humanities, science, economics, politics, philosophy and history. Psychiatry and drugs, food and agriculture, sexuality, religion and science, climate change.
Class Description:
Science and the Humanities centers on the struggle over truth, the methods, language and technologies used to articulate it, and the political systems within which it plays out. We'll read central works in the history / philosophy of science to support 'case studies' on science and society, including medicine(s), psychiatry, sexuality, food and nutrition, religious practice, and ecology / environmental practice. We'll examine systems of power and economics underlying the culture and science 'industries,' examining how work (in science and the humanities) creates both knowledge and the identities of the workers who make and use it. We'll discuss what counts as 'good' science, 'good' history of science and 'good' technical applications of scientific knowledge?and what makes them 'good,' and for whom. We will be working simultaneously in three dimensions, woven together throughout the course. The first dimension looks at how science and technology work?really. The second tries to theorize science and technology: their history, nature and place in society. The third raises the question of ethics in doing, describing and applying science. Our job is to get these three dimensions of the problem to talk to each other.
Grading:
20% Reports/Papers
45% Special Projects
5% Class Participation
30% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Blog mediated; many small, defined projects; active group work and presentations--do what we ask, and you'll do well.
Class Format:
10% Lecture
30% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
10% Web Based Active learning at all times; every effort made never to bore any of us. 'Anyone? Bueller?, Bueller?'--Not.
Workload:
60 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
2 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Group Work, real-world research
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52182/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 November 2011

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