CSCL 3323 is also offered in Spring 2025
CSCL 3323 is also offered in Fall 2024
CSCL 3323 is also offered in Spring 2024
CSCL 3323 is also offered in Spring 2023
CSCL 3323 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | CSCL 3323 Section 001: Science and Culture (66156)
- 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
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 131B
- Enrollment Status:
Open (58 of 60 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- 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:
- How do we know if something is true? Is truth even a valid category of thought today in this so-called "post-truth" world of "fake news" and science deniers such as the anti-vaxxers and flat Earthers? Is there still a split between the two cultures of science and humanities, as C.P. Snow claimed in the mid 20th century? What, really, do the humanities bring to scientific thought and practice? Why should scientists care about the humanities? This class will take on these questions and more through a focus on some of the BIG questions facing us today. Topics may include but are not limited to: organic foods, animal rights, and environmental concerns, biotechnology and Crispr, digital/social media and public opinion, the origins of Modern science, bodies and body modification, and much more. We all have much to bring from our various disciplines, so this course will push us to see what we can all learn from each other.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Scientists and humanists alike should take this course. Join us if you are interested in building a more interdisciplinary and expansive view of our contemporary world and the intersections of the sciences and humanities.
- Grading:
- Participation (20%); Presentations and debates (30%); online discussions (30%); final projects (20%)
- Class Format:
- The class will be part lecture and a good deal of breakout group work and all-class discussion.
- Workload:
- Writing assignments every few weeks, group projects, 40+ pages of reading per week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66156/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 April 2019
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