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Peer reviewedFowler, Michael – Science and Education, 2003
Describes a seminar course using Galileo's book "Two New Sciences" as an instructional tool to give students insight into the Greek's achievement in science. Includes references. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Nonmajors, Science History
Peer reviewedCrosthwaite, Jan – Science and Education, 2001
Discusses the question, How much understanding of ethics and of what kind is needed to enable useful engagement with practical issues? Discusses this question in the context of a university-level class in the area of ethical issues in biotechnology. (SAH)
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Ethics, Higher Education, Nonmajors
Peer reviewedSchwartz, A. Truman – Science and Education, 1999
Summarizes the origin, development, content, pedagogy, evaluation, and influence of a textbook for non-science majors entitled "Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society." Considers the text's potential implications for other disciplines and for the instruction of science majors. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Nonmajors
Peer reviewedFlannery, Maura C.; Hendrick, Robert – Science and Education, 1999
Describes a course entitled "Science, Technology and the Public in the Nineteenth Century" that incorporates history and biology in order to make non-science majors more aware of both the process of science and its relationship to society. Discusses Louis Pasteur's life and accomplishments as an example of course content. Contains 18…
Descriptors: Biology, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedTewksbury, Barbara J. – Science and Education, 1999
Describes a course that explores the ways in which geology can have an underlying influence on human events that is much deeper and more subtle than the distribution of resource wealth and geologic hazards. The course revolves around a series of geological topics that have direct relevance to particular prehistoric, historical, political, or…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Geology, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAllchin, Douglas; Anthony, Elizabeth; Bristol, Jack; Dean, Alan; Hall, David; Lieb, Carl – Science and Education, 1999
Describes an interdisciplinary science laboratory course for non-majors that uses the history of science as a curricular guide. Profiles two sample projects that consider the importance of teachers to classroom dynamics and the institutional political context. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Peer reviewedChambers, David Wade – Science and Education, 1999
Describes the Imagining Nature Project at Deakin University in Australia, and the Native Eyes Project at the Institute of American Indian Art in New Mexico. Both projects entail the teaching of science and technology to non-science majors of highly diverse cultural origin. They also incorporate innovative strategies to make science and technology…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Background, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
