LIBS 420B - Elective Seminar Core B

Unit(s): 3

Included in this core area are courses that deal with science and technology and their relationship to the individual and society. In today’s world, any well-educated person should understand, at least at a general level, both the methods of science and important information which has been discovered through their applications. Here students build upon their understanding of the sciences and come to grips with some of the crucial issues posed by our culture’s applications of science and technology. Students write on topics which address the idea of the material world: scientific aspects of social issues, the contribution science has made to your understanding of an issue of personal concern, and your sense of science as a social endeavor.