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| Second Semester: | This is a year-long, introductory, interdisciplinary science course. Second semester includes some fascinating advanced topics (such as cosmology, evolutionary biology, remote sensing, and genetic engineering), gives you a chance to do some independent research, and culminates in the Unity of Science poster session (see Independent Projects for Spring 1998). It is expected that you will take the full year. If you are not planning to take both semesters, we request that you take a different course and allow another student to take this course. |
| Laboratory: |
The laboratroy exercises are an essential aspect of the material we hope to share with you this year. The laboratory will provide hands-on experience with a variety of interconnected scientific ideas, observations, and equipment. Labs are three hours long, to give you the time nescessary for the careful observation, discussion and analysis that will help you make sense of what you are doing. Pleae come on time, and be prepared to fully use the three hours to make the lab experience fun as well as intellectually stimulating. |
| Web Site: | (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intdept.unisci/index.shm The Unity of Science web site is a source of information about the course, as well as links to other interesting sites. We will constantly be updating it as the semester goes on. Be sure to check the web board weekly for assignments. |
| Question of the Week: | There will be a short assignment due in discussion every week, published on the web. Check the web board, and use it to ask questions and make comments on the assignment before you write it up for discussion. |
| Discussion: | Come prepared to participate in discussion section meetings. These are your opportunity to get questions answered and to explore ideas and issues of interest to you. Attendance at discussion and lecture is expected and will be taken into account in assigning grades to written work. |
| Evening Help: | The TA's will be available in the evenings. These meetings give you an opportunity to work with other students and your TA's to study the material and prepare your papers. |
| Grading: | Your grade will be based on how well you demonstrate that you understand the material we cover. Written work (lab reports and other papers, as well as a final summary paper) will form the basis of your grade. (See Grading Policies) If you are uncomfortable with this basis of grading, there are many science courses available that do use standard exams. |
| Mountain Day: | We honor the spirit of Mountain Day as a day to cast aside your studies and enjoy the outdoors. However, this quaint tradition wreaks havoc on lab courses. In order to stay on track, therefore, we will hold a special required lab review during discussion for the lab section that is fortunate enough to have Mountain Day coincide with lab that week. A fifty minute lat overview will be presented and a modified lab report will be assigned. |
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