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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the study of science as a cultural phenomenon. Exploration of the individual and collective behavior of scientists in historical and contemporary contexts using materials from history, biography, sociology, journalism, fiction, drama, poetry, and film.
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1.00 Credits
S/F grading. Designed to help Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs) students make the academic transition to Indiana University, this course helps students sharpen study skills; introduces campus academic, cultural, and student service resources; and assists students in integrating course content from FIGs courses. Students must be enrolled in the FIGs program.
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2.00 Credits
An online examination of the culture of a research university as told through the storied traditions of IU Bloomington. Students will learn about the history of American higher education by examining how the campus has changed since its 1820 founding-in terms of its demography, programs, and buildings. Certain unique treasures of IUB (the Gutenberg Bible, Little 500, the Indiana Memorial Union, the Kinsey Institute) will be used to illustrate issues related to information technology, student activism, commercialization, and academic freedom.
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3.00 Credits
Individual sections will vary in content and major themes, but all will employ case studies from the history of science to examine the intellectual, cultural, and social impact of science for a variety of historical perspectives. Various case studies are presented at an introductory level. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 6 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Individual sections will vary in content and major themes, but all will employ case studies to illustrate, from a variety of perspectives, the logic and methods of the natural and mathematical sciences. Examples illustrating these methods are presented at an introductory level. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 6 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Patterns of scientific reasoning presented in a simple form useful to both nonscientists and prospective scientists for understanding and evaluating scientific information of all sorts. Illustrations in the natural, biological, behavioral, and biomedical sciences are drawn from a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources, including popular magazines and newspapers.
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1.00 Credits
P: B or higher in M119. Provides a transition from M119 to M212. Trigonometric functions and their identities (rapid review), limits, derivatives of trigonometric functions, related rates, implicit differentiation, mean value theorem, L'Hospital's rule, Riemann sums,antiderivatives of trigonometric functions. Credit not given for both M211 and X201. II Sem.
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3.00 Credits
From primitive humans to the present: survey of medical concepts, systems of health care, and the social relations of physician and patient.
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3.00 Credits
Critical and historical evaluation of a wide range of occult topics: superstitions, magic, witchcraft, astrology, the Cabala, psychic phenomena (mesmerism, spiritualism, ESP), and UFOs.
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3.00 Credits
We will consider the following questions (among others): IsWestern technology fundamentally different from that of other cultures What do science and technology have to do with each other Is technology gendered Is technological change inevitable or desirable
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