| SC/NATS 1730.06, Section A Scientific Change, Lecture Schedule for Summer 2011 | ||||
| Day | Date | LectureTopic | Reading Assignments | Video/Film |
| Autumn Term | ||||
| Mon | 2-May | General Introduction and Prehistory | Key: COP = Children of Prometheus; Glimpses = Glimpses of Reality |
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| Tue | 3-May | Civilization | COP, Foreword, Prologue, Intro to Part I, Chapters 1 & 2 | The Compulsive Communicators |
| Wed | 4-May | Numbers and Arithmetic | Glimpses, Part I Introduction and Ch 1; COP, Ch 3 | |
| Thu | 5-May | Ancient Greece and Pythagoras | COP, Ch 4: pp. 48-56; Glimpses, Ch 2 & 3 | |
| Mon | 9-May | Plato and Aristotle | Glimpses, Ch 4, 5 & 6 | |
| Tue | 10-May | Euclid | Glimpses, Ch 6 & 7 | |
| Wed | 11-May | Ptolemy and the Roman Empire | Glimpses, Ch 8; COP, Ch 4: pp. 56-65 | |
| Thu | 12-May | 90 minute test; worth 30% of the course mark. | Medieval Conflict: Faith & Reason | |
| Mon | 16-May | The Dark Ages and the Renaissance | COP, Intro to Part II, Ch 5 & 6; Glimpses, Part II Introduction | |
| Tue | 17-May | Copernicus | COP, Intro to Part III, Ch 7-8 | Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance |
| Wed | 18-May | Tycho Brahe, and Kepler | Glimpses, Ch 9 & 10; COP, Ch 9 pp. 138-152 | |
| Thu | 19-May | Galileo | Glimpses, Ch 11 & 12; COP, Ch 9: pp. 152-163, Ch 10: pp. 165-171 | |
| Mon | 23-May | Victoria Day Holiday. No class. | ||
| Tue | 24-May | Descartes | Glimpses, Ch 13; COP, Ch 10 pp. 172-176 | Science Revises the Heavens |
| Wed | 25-May | Newton and the Three Traditions | Glimpses, Ch 14 & 15: Recommended also: COP, Ch 11 & 12 | |
| Thu | 26-May | 90 minute test; worth 30% of the course mark. | Invisible Enemy | |
| Fri | 27-May | Last day to drop the course without a grade appearing on the transcript. | ||
| Mon | 30-May | Scientific Discovery & Scientific Method, Chemistry | COP, Part IV Introduction; Glimpses, Part III Introduction | |
| Tue | 31-May | Chemistry (contd.), Enlightenment & Energy | COP, Ch 13 & 15; Glimpses, Ch 16 | |
| Wed | 1-Jun | Electromagnetism | COP, Ch 17; Glimpses, Ch 17 | |
| Thu | 2-Jun | Relativity | Glimpses, Ch 18 | |
| Fri (Note day) | 3-Jun | Atomic theory & Cosmology (Note that this is a Friday.) | Glimpses, Ch 19 & 20: Recommended also: COP, Ch 19 | |
| Mon | 6-Jun | Life: Theories of the Earth & Taxonomy | Glimpses, Part IV Introduction, Ch 21; COP, Ch 16 | |
| Tue | 7-Jun | Darwin's Theory of Evolution | Glimpses, Ch 22 | Darwin's Revolution |
| Wed | 8-Jun | The Microscope and Genetics | Glimpses, Ch 23; Recommended also: COP, Ch 21: pp. 408-419 | |
| Thu | 9-Jun | DNA: The Discovery of the Structure of DNA | Glimpses, Ch 24; Recommended also: COP, Ch 21: pp. 420-433 | |
| Thu | 16-Jun | 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in Stedman Lecture Hall "A" | 2 hour cumulative final exam; worth 40% of the course mark. | |
| End of Course | ||||
| Revised as of June 7, 2011 | ||||