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  • SW 290: Concepts in Mathematics

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    This course will focus on interpreting numerical data and problem-solving using basic mathematical tools. Selected topics from branches of mathematics will be reviewed, including: probability, statistics, charts, graphs, linear equations, and solving word problems through basic algebra. Methods will include lectures, hands-on applications, small group problem-solving, quizzes, and research. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-1, PW-B, PW-F, WW. BA-1999 Competencies: S-2-X, S-3-X, L-6, F-X. Faculty: Pervez Rahaman, Pat Ryan
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  • SW 291: History of Life on Earth

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    The study of fossils, the remains and traces of past living things, is essential for understanding and reconstructing the history of life on earth. Fossils provide us with critical information regarding the character and age of the most significant biological events in earth's history including the earliest forms of life, the pivotal development of multi-celled plants and animals, the rise, success, and demise of the dinosaurs, the diversification of the mammals, and the origins of our own species. In this course, you will explore how fossils and scientific reasoning are integrated to discern the complex history of life on earth. You will also evaluate the impact the discovery and recognition of earth s fossil record has had on society over the last several hundred years such as the position of humans among other species and the corresponding creation-evolution debate. Competences: S1B, S2A, S2C, S3D, S4. Faculty: Kevin Downing
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  • SW 292: Explorng Earth's Phys Features

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    From majestic mountains and volcanoes, to expansive oceans and scenic plateaus and canyons, the landforms of Earth are diverse and awe-inspiring. In this course, you will explore the character, distribution and evolution of landforms as they reflect millions of years of complex change involving both the Earth's surface and internal processes. Upon completion of this course you will have an essential understanding of earth's landforms, their geologic history and the physical and chemical processes that sculpt them. You will be able to explain connections between earth's physical features, natural resource distribution, and the quality of human life. Principal topics covered will include: plate tectonics, earthquakes, erosion and weathering, sedimentation, rock types, mountains, volcanoes, plateaus, coasts, the plains, deserts, glaciation, and the economics of earth's physical features. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the evolution of earth's geologic features using specific landform examples from North America and elsewhere. Competences: S1A, S2B, S2C, S4. Faculty: Staff
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  • SW 293: Aging Reason

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Reasoning, like human life, comes in layers that need to be unravelled if we are to make sense of it. As Bernard Shaw put it, "Reason makes a good servant but a bad master" That may come as a surprising thought to those of us brought up to think that everything desirable and true is scientific and science is based on reason. This course will examine the maturing of the reasoning processes employed in science, the mechanisms or methodologies used to validate data, namely the development of scientific reasoning in the Western hemisphere from naive realism through logical positivism to Popperian falsification. This will help us to clarify the status of the data that we use or write about. It will also examine the maturing of the biological processes of the human being, the mechanisms of aging, including modern research experience demonstrating the way in which underlying assumptions can influence both reasoning about and experience of biological aging processes. Class presentation and discussion backed up by library-based reading. In class, we will focus on the key concepts of paradigms in science and religion, in youth and aging and the way in which basic assumptions influence perception, behavior, and experience.
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  • SW 294: Global Environmntl Change

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Many ongoing changes in the natural environment are so extensive in scale that scientists consider them a threat to sustaining a reasonable quality of life for humans worldwide. Examples of issues of particular and urgent concern are: the rapid changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere that can alter the earth's prevailing climate patterns; the amount of pollutants in the oceans that can breach essential parts of the food chain; the consumption or contamination of natural resources, such as minerals for industrial use, petroleum, groundwater, and agriculturally important soils and; the spatial reduction of terrestrial biomes with corresponding extinctions of organisms. In this course, we will review and analyze the recent earth science research on these and other global change issues in order to assess their relative importance for the human community. We will also examine and evaluate how human activities can have direct and causal relationships to specific adverse global environmental changes. Additional topics that will be addressed include emerging theories of sustainable development, ecological ("Green") economics, and environmental laws. Through readings, discussions, lectures, and original inquiry, students will be introduced to the principal global environmental change issues. Students will select one issue for more detailed analysis and utilize the course learning experience to formulate a plan for personal, governmental, and/or global action to address an environmental problem. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-2, PW-A. Faculty: Kevin Downing
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  • SW 295: Interviewng Princples/ Techniq

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Interviewing " the process of asking and answering questions" is a part of everyday experience. This course introduces and explores the fundamental principles, theories and techniques of interviewing including the interpersonal communication process, common types of interviews, interview structure, questions and responses. Through collaborative and experiential learning activities, students will prepare for and participate in all aspects of the interview process as the interviewer and interviewee. Competences: L-7, FX, H-3-X, S-3-X
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  • SW 296: Biology And Violence

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    There is a significant difference of opinion concerning aggressive or violent human behavior. Is it a social response to an environment of poverty and other psychological phenomena Or can it be explained in terms of a biochemical syndrome consistent with scientific data and therefore remediable with psychoactive drugs In this course, students will be introduced to normal brain anatomy and biochemistry and the technologies that have helped us understand cerebral function. We will examine literature in the biological, medical, and psychological sciences in an effort to develop and demonstrate critical reading and analytic skills of both scientific and pseudoscientific material. We will explore the relative contributions of environment and biology to understanding aggressive and violent behavior as well as potential modifiers of the same. Pre-'99 Competencies: PW-4, PW-E, HC-4. BA'99 Competencies: H-3-A, S-2-A, S-3-B. Faculty: Gary Kohn
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  • SW 297: Writing The Earth

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    In this course, students will learn creative writing while exploring geologic history. Geology is the window into history of the earth and all the organisms that have lived and died here. Every work in quarries, road cuts, or pebbles on a beach carries part of the earth's story. Students will learn to read rocks and open the book of the earth history. There, one can find the drama of evolution and mass extinction, the violent uplift of mountains and their slow erosion into plains, the crashing of seas flooding the continents and the drying of sediments abandonded as the seas recede, the first steps of an ape that would be human and the changes that made all of us from that beginning. Earth history is filled with drama, with actual adventure, and light romance, and grim catastrophe. Factual writing alone cannot communicate the emotions we feel as we experience earth's own poetry. For that, we need the depth and energy of creative expression. In this course, students will learn the basics of reading rocks and explore earth history for themselves. They will also learn to communicate their experience to others through creative writing in fiction, essays, or poetry. Regular class meetings will be held with full day field trips. Class time will be divided between the explorations of geologic concepts and creative writing. Geologic concepts will be introduced through readings, discussion, and hands-on experience with real rocks. Creative writing will be introduced through readings, discussions, and writing exercises. Most of the writing exercises for each class will be based on student's hands-on experience in that class.
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  • SW 298: Exploring The Internet

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    In this introductory-level course, you will develop a broad knowledge of the Internet technology and understand how it can be useful to personal and work life. The class will be "hands on" and you will learn how to access Internet applications and use them. We will discuss the history of the Internet, getting connected to the Internet, and the various functions used on the Internet -including email, Web Browsers, emerging technologies, and search engines. We will also create websites, focusing on their design, rather than the HTML coding. Competencies: F-X, S-1-D, S-5, S-1-X. Faculty: Staff. See a syllabus at http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmurphy/
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  • SW 299: Matters of Science

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    One set of laws describes all motion. All matter is made of atoms (actually quarks and leptons!). Stars live and die like everything else. All life is based on the same genetic code. These basic ideas of science and their application to technology are the focus of this course and they offer you what will probably be a new way of thinking about science. If you can get excited about recognizing and discovering what lies behind many everyday encounters with the world around you -- and some not so everyday as well -- just for the enjoyment of learning about them and how they work, this course may be the way to put capstones on your Physical World competencies. This will be a course unlike any other you have experienced -- you will be learning on an independent study basis but also interacting and exchanging ideas with others in a virtual classroom located on the Internet. Through your research in response to questions and pursuit of independent projects, guidance by a primary text, other readings and the instructor, the fruits of your classmates' efforts, and the unexpected that can come from (written) conversation, this course will touch on the roots of most scientific disciplines (eg. physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, ecology). It will do so in ways that should help you to see their connections to each other and to various technologies. You will also examine your own problem-solving strategies and various aspects of scientific inquiry. An overall outcome of achieving the competencies of this course will be the development of a scientific literacy to build on in the future. You are invited to visit the course home page: www.depaul.edu/~mfiddler/ms/home.html * Prerequisites: 1. Willingness to participate in an experimental learning activity. 2. Major Seminar / Research Seminar or high level of comfort with library research. 3. Experience with Windows' and use of electronic mail. 4. Access to the Internet. This class meets twice as a group; the first night and sixth week of the quarter. Pre-1999 Competencies: PW-9, PW-10. BA-1999 Competencies: E-1, E-2. Faculty: Morris Fiddler
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