Schedule, Assignments & Notes
Date | Lecture | Notes | Discussion |
DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS | |||
9/7 | Introduction and Definitions | notes |
Wk 1: no discussion |
9/9 | History of Science before WW II | notes | |
PROGRESS, 1947-1967 | |||
9/12 | The Legacy of the Bomb and WW II | notes | Wk 2: Science and Technology Policy |
9/14 | Science and the Endless Frontier | notes | |
9/16 | Films: Bombs & Progress | films | |
9/19 | Cold War Science | notes | Wk 3: Atomic Bomb Museum |
9/21 | The Moon race | notes | |
9/23 | Film | films | |
9/26 | Radar, Electronics and Computers | notes | Wk 4: Science the Endless Frontier |
9/28 | Energy and Nuclear Power | notes | |
9/30 | Film | films | |
10/3 | DNA, Polio, and the Biomedical Sciences | notes | Wk 5: Atomic Research |
10/5 | Science and the Social Sciences | notes | |
10/7 | Films | films | |
DECADE OF CRISIS, 1967-1980 | |||
10/10 | Exam #1 | Wk 6: Rethinking the S/T Agenda | |
10/12 | The End of the Progressive Era | notes | |
10/14 | The Rise of Environmental Awareness | notes | |
10/17 | Break | Wk 7: Environmental Awareness | |
10/19 | Tentative - no class | ||
10/21 | Films: | films | |
10/24 | Alternative Science and World Views | notes | Wk 8: Criticism of S/T |
10/26 | Legistlative Response | notes | |
10/28 | Recombinant DNA | notes | |
10/31 | Microwave debate | notes | Wk 9: |
11/2 | Energy Crisis | notes | |
11/4 | Films | films | |
GROWTH AND PROBLEMS OF SCIENCE, 1980-2003 | |||
11/7 | Exam #2 | Wk 10: Genetic Privacy | |
11/9 | Agenda of the 80s | notes | |
11/11 | Films | films | |
11/14 | Science & government | notes | Wk 11: Technology transfer |
11/16 | Large Science Projects | notes | |
11/18 | Films | films | |
11/21 | Regulation of science | notes | Wk 12: |
11/23 | no lecture | ||
11/25 | break | ||
11/28 | Regulation (Human Subject) & AIDS, Part I | notes | Wk 13: Reports |
11/30 | AIDS, Part II | ||
12/2 | Films | film | |
12/5 | Science & Law | notes | Wk 14: Reports |
12/7 | Science, Gender & Education | notes | |
12/9 | Films | film | |
12/12 | Science & Technology in the 21st century | Wk 15: Review | |
12/15 | FINAL EXAM (EXAM #3) 1:30-3:30 |