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VAST 234: Technology and the City:Chicago and New York
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This course examines the role that industrial technology played in the rise of the two great American cities-Chicago and New York. It centers on Chicago and uses New York further to illuminate technology's influence on the city-building process and the role that cities played in making America a technological wonder and the greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. The course is taught from an interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of relating history to present time and to students' lives. D. Miller
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VAST 235: Science,Technology,and Social Change
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Progress, evolution, and continuous change are Western cultural ideals, but custom, tradition, and habit make fixity and persistence the dominant forces in human history. Minor shifts and adjustments aside, real changes in social structures and values are rare. Big changes are usually linked to crises and revolutionary events, some of which are provoked by advances in science and technology. This course examines what happens when scientific and technological innovations meet social forces promoting fixity and persistence. Schneiderman
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VAST 236: Energy,Environment,Society
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
Students develop an ability to think critically about modern energy and transportation technologies by reading, writing, and discussing the individual and social issues that attend advances in these areas. Energy plays an important role in connecting the ecosystem, the production system, and the economic system. The course focuses on the effects of energy production on the environment, technological, and social aspects of transportation (ground and air) and bridges, and the history and philosophy of technology. Ulucakli
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VAST 237: Media Presentation and Government Reaction to Scientific Information
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
An investigaton of how scientific information is disseminated to the public via mass media, and the subsequent reaction by politicians and the public. Ethical theories are integrated into the course topics by examination of the professional obligations of scientist, engineers, media, and public officials. Case studies to be considered include several "scares" of the past including the Millenium Bug, DDT, electrical power lines, and Mad Cow Disease, among others. Hummel
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VAST 238: Human Reproductive Technology
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
The ability to control and assist reproduction has raised new issues concerning the creation of life and the rights and responsibilities of potential parents and children, as well as medical personnel and policy makers. Scientific, social, ethical, legal, and political dimensions of reproductive technologies are examined. Development of new technologies provides new opportunities to explore existing moral and legal questions (eugenics, attitudes and disabilities, and definitions of the family, for example) as well as raise new questions to address. McGillicuddy-DeLisi
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VAST 240: Plastics in Our World
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This course deals with the increasingly important role that plastics (polymers) play in the modern world. After an introduction to the structure, properties, and processing of plastics, students explore new applications of plastics and examine some of the controversial aspects of plastics, including environmental effects of disposal and the impact on natural resources. Martin
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VAST 241: Engineering and Law as Learned Professions
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
A cross-disciplinary course going well beyond a review of professional/ethical codes of engineers and lawyers. This course prepares students for lives within the learned professions as communities of practitioners, called to honorable fiduciary service on behalf of worth public purposes, and rooted in rich intellectual traditions. The course will encourage collaborative learning, placing emphasis on critical reading, discussion, process writing, and interactive simulations. The course is team-taught and considers the moral and ethical issues raised by challenging, concrete, and open-ended case studies. Hornfeck, Lennertz
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VAST 242: The Cs: Conception, Contraception, and Carrying Capacity
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This course explores reproductive science and accompanying ethical issues. Students begin with an intensive overview of the evolution, physiology, endocrinology, and genetics of human reproduction. Topics include multiple births, artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, teratogens, genetic screening, efficacy and global distribution of contraception, and determining carrying capacity. Throughout, attention is given to research and development, funding, and distribution/accessibility issues. Waters
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VAST 245: Unity of the Sciences and Ethical Consequences
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
This course studies the conceptual unity of the physical sciences, giving an overall sketch from the physics of atoms and molecules to biochemistry and into the more speculative realm of the mind. Is there really any underlying unity across this wide spectrum of knowledge And if so, what would be the consequences for the humanistic aspects of knowledge involving culture and ethics This seminar compares different approaches to this conceptual unity and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. Haug
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VAST 246: Life's Uncertainties:An Introduction to Risk
3.00 Credits
Lafayette College
How do individuals and society perceive and manage risk This course explores the historical background of risk analysis, the assessment and quantification of risk, and how potential benefits are weighed against the costs of controlling risk. Science, history, probability, statistics, psychology, and public policy are among the disciplines that are employed to develop an understanding of risk. The course focuses on medicine, the environment, public safety, and government regulation. Fisher
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