HSP 124-02
Fall 02021
Great Issues In Science: 8 Big Ideas That Shaped Science
Reading Schedule and Discussion Questions


Texts: The Canon, by Natalie Angier. (TC)

          The Discoveries, by Alan Lightman. (TD)

          The Double Helix, by James D. Watson. (TDH)

          Fortune’s Formula, by William Poundstone (FF)

          Mendeleev on the Periodic Law, edited by William B. Jensen. (MPL)

          The Non-Euclidean Revolution, by Richard J. Trudeau. (TNER)

          The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. (TOS)

          Plate Tectonics, edited by Naomi Oreskes (PT)


Discussion questions will be linked from this page when they are received from each day's discussion leaders.  You should check this page each day before class.

Tentative schedule of events

Week of

(M)

Reading assignments and other news

(Text codes appear above)

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

8/30

Introduction

TC Intro & Ch.1

TC Ch. 3

TC Ch. 5

9/6

Labor Day

MPL Papers 1-3

Project 1 due

MPL Papers 4-8

MPL Papers 9-13

9/13

TC Ch. 4

TD Ch. 5

TD Ch. 8

Zweig paper

9/20

TD Ch. 21

TC Ch. 9

TD Ch. 12

TD Ch. 19

Project 2 due

9/27

TC Ch. 8

Wegener paper

PT Preface & Ch. 1

PT Ch. 2

10/4

PT Ch. 6

PT Ch. 7

PT Ch. 14

TC Ch. 2

10/11

 FF Prologue & Ch. 1

FF Ch. 2

Filler

FF Ch. 3

Project 3 due

10/18

Fall Break

FF Ch. 4

Shannon paper

10/25

Orientation to axiomatics

TNER Ch. 1

TNER Ch. 2a

p. 22-86

TNER Ch. 2b

p. 86-105

11/1

GSP Lab 1

Project 4 due

 TNER Ch. 3

TNER Ch. 4

TNER Ch. 5

11/8

GSP Lab 2

TNER Ch. 6

TNER Ch. 7-8

GSP Lab 3

11/15

TC Ch. 7

GSP Lab 4

TD Ch. 17

Project 5 due

TDH Ch. 1- 11

Lab 3 report due

11/22

TDH Ch. 12-23

TDH Ch. 24-29

Lab 4 report due

Thanksgiving Break

11/29

TC Ch. 6

TOS Ch. 0-3

TOS Ch. 4-6

TOS Ch. 7-8

12/6

TOS Ch. 9-10

TOS Ch. 11-12

Project 6 due

TOS Ch. 13-14

Recap

12/13

Final Exam Week: Meeting Thursday, December 16, 1130 AM–130 PM.

Final projects–papers and presentations–due at this meeting.