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3.00 Credits
This course examines connections between culture and mathematics. It concentrates on the mathematics found in ancient, non-literate, and non-Western cultures, especially traditional African cultures and pre-Columbian civilizations. Topics include number concepts; recordkeeping, including calendars; games, geometry, and symmetry. Students look at how to recognize mathematics in other cultures; and how culture influences the development of mathematics. Meier
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This course explores the intersections between technology and values as they relate to what we eat. Technological advances produce new food preservation methods, higher crop yields per acre and year round variety of relatively inexpensive foods. Topics such as genetic modification, cloned meat in the food supply and the Slow Food Movement will illustrate how technological capabilities balance with moral and ethical issues as we make daily food choices. Diorio
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The patient-practitioner interaction is the essence of medical practice. This course examines the psychological and social factors that contribute, in both positive and negative ways, to this dynamic relationship. Of major concern is the role of medical technology. Issues to be examined include factors that will affect the decision to use technology, such as age, costs, and prognosis, as well as the needs and interests of the patient, the practitioner, and, ultimately, society. Childs
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This course examines the history of drug discovery, development, and production. Issues such as the ethics of drug testing, problems of overexposure to antibiotics, and the technological advancements necessary for large-scale production are discussed. Simple experiments demonstrate a few of the technologies used. Piergiovanni
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An examination of jazz music, musicians, and careers. Main reference point: jazz recordings and how they have defined and shaped the business. Important Questions: Who was recorded When Where How How did developing technology change the music Who did and did not benefit from the recordings Central Studies: "Kind of Blue" (Miles Davis) and "A Love Supreme" (John Coltrane). Wilkins
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This course examines relationships between transportation and society, in terms of how transportation systems affect and are affected by societal conditions and trends. The course addresses societal conditions at the times of emergence of various transportation systems; factors that enabled their emergence; and the socioeconomic, demographic, political, technological, environmental, and cultural impacts of such systems. Veshosky
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3.00 Credits
Neither natural science nor economics is independently capable of analyzing and developing solutions to environmental and natural resource problems. Parallel readings in environmental science and economics are used to study the consequences of human behavior on the environment and the consequences of technology and the environment on human behavior. Natural resources studied include forests, wildlife, water, and land. Bruggink
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This course explores the relationship between publishing technology and our ideas about intellectual property, looking at both current issues and historical trends. Key topics may include the print revolution, e-books, adaptations, plagiarism, and international copyright. Phillips
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and present use of IQ testing including implications on social policy, especially those raised by the book The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray. Students study some of the statistical tools used by researchers in social science, including population distributions, correlation, and factor analysis. Questions considered include "What do IQ tests measure "; "Should political decision use this information for justification ?ordon
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3.00 Credits
The answer seems obvious for cute, furry, warm-blooded "charismatic megavertebrates." But what about "creepy-crawlies" like burying beetles and ambersnails Species have come and gone throughout the fossil record: extinction has been a fact of evolutionary history and continues to be. Species rescue has profound economic, legal, and political implications and fallout. This course addresses the conflict and confusion over endangered species and attempts to save themLeibel
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