Science and Society
Prerequisite: Restricted to Honors students.
Students will examine the ways natural science and social science address particular issues as well as the effects of science on society. They will study the history of science and scientific ways of knowing, and demonstrate the capacity to make reasoned and ethical judgments about the impact of science on society.
Outcomes: Students will learn the history of scientific principles and methods of producing knowledge and to make reasoned and ethical judgments about the impact of science on the individual, community and society.
Students will examine the ways natural science and social science address particular issues as well as the effects of science on society. They will study the history of science and scientific ways of knowing, and demonstrate the capacity to make reasoned and ethical judgments about the impact of science on society.
Outcomes: Students will learn the history of scientific principles and methods of producing knowledge and to make reasoned and ethical judgments about the impact of science on the individual, community and society.