Homepage for SC/NATS 1760D
Course Overview
Course Web-Site URL= http://www.yorku.ca/hfischer/index.html - The York Moodle site for this course will be open on September 10 and will have a Forum for each Lesson and a General Chat Room. I will be in the chat room from 7 to 8 pm at night during the first week of classes and on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 pm thereafter. You are encouraged to use Forums and the General Chat Room at any time. In order to do so you need to sign in using your York username and your York Passport password. Lessons and Assignments will be posted on this site, not on the Moodle site. I can be reached by emailing me at natsci@rogers.com. Be sure to include NATS1760D in the subject line of your email or my junk filter will delete your message
NATSAID is a student run study help place. Check them out.
No, you do not have to buy a text for this course - all readings are on line!
Yes, there will be quite a bit of reading required! Count on 4 to 6 hours per week.
Topics
1. Introduction
a. What information can you trust?
b. What is good Science
c. Science and Pseudoscience
2. What makes us Human?
a. What makes us Human?
b. The Big Leaps
· Agriculture and Domestication
· Urbanization and Civilizations
· Writing and Mathematics
3. Development of Reason and Science
a. Greece
b. Medieval Knowledge and the Church
c. Gutenberg & Explorations
d. Enlarging the Universe
4. Rise of Technology
a. First Industrial Revolution
b. Age of the Earth
c. Science and Religion
5. Age of Biology
a. Darwin and the Concept of Evolution
b. Mendel and the Rise of Genetics
c. Human Genetics and Genetic Engineering
d. Epidemiology and Disease
6. Spread of Information
a. How much information
b. Privacy and Security
7. Global Ethics
a. Population Growth
b. The Haves and the Have-Nots
c. Science, Ethics, and the Future
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Date
|
L
# |
Lesson |
Assignment |
|
S
– 10 |
1 |
Introduction
& Critical Analysis of Sources |
Assignment
1 A#1
Grading Scheme |
|
S
- 17 |
2 |
Science
and Pseudoscience |
Assignment
2 |
|
S
– 24 |
3 |
Human
Evolution & What makes us Human? |
Assignment
3 |
|
O
- 01 |
4 |
The
Big Leaps - Agriculture and Domestication |
Assignment
4 |
|
O
- 08 |
5 |
Fertile
Crescent and Urbanization & The Development of Civilizations
and Empires |
Assignment
5 |
|
October
10 - 16 - Reading Week - No new Assignments |
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|
O
– 22 |
6 |
Writing
and Mathematics |
Assignment
6 |
|
O
– 29 |
7 |
Development
of Science and Reason - Paradigms |
Assignment
7 |
|
N
– 05 |
8 |
Greece
and the Alphabetic Mind & Reason and Religion |
Assignment 8 |
|
N
- 12 |
9a 9b |
Rome
and the Dark Ages & Medieval Knowledge Black
Death Associated
Pictures, Diagrams and Maps |
Assignment
9 Pictures,
Diagrams & Maps |
|
N
– 19 |
10 |
EXAM
#1 WORTH 34% |
NO
ASSIGNMENT |
|
N
– 26 |
11 |
Gutenberg
& Galileo |
Assignment
11 |
|
D
– 03 |
12 |
The
Industrial Revolution |
Assignment
12 |
|
Winter
Break - No classes or Assignments |
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|
J
– 07 |
13 |
Rise
of Science and Technology & Harvey and the
Circulation of Blood |
Assignment
13 |
|
J
– 14 |
14 |
Science
and Religion & Age of the Earth |
Assignment
14 |
|
J
– 21 |
15 |
Darwin
and Evolution |
Assignment
15 |
|
J
– 28 |
16 |
The
Rise of Biology – Mendel & How to Solve Genetics Problems |
Assignment
16 |
|
F
– 04 |
17 |
Fruit
Flies and Human Genetics |
Assignment
17 |
|
F
– 11 |
18 |
Population
Genetics |
Assignment
18 |
|
Febuary
13 – 19 - Reading Week - No new Assignments |
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|
F
–
25 |
19 |
EXAM
#2 WORTH 30% |
NO
ASSIGNMENT |
|
M
– 04 |
20 |
Epidemiology
and Disease |
Assignment
20 |
|
M
- 11 |
21 |
Communication
and Information Technology |
Assignment
21 |
|
M
– 18 |
22 |
How
Much Information & Information Overload |
Assignment
22 |
|
M
– 25 |
23 |
Privacy
and Security & Ethics |
Assignment
23 |
|
A
–
01 |
24 |
EXAM
#3 WORTH 15% |
WORTH
OF ALL ASSIGNMENTS = 21% |
