INS Seminar
Winter 2003


Meeting Time Mondays, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Rooms Lab I 1037 - Global Climate Change
Lab I 2033 - Genetically Modified Organisms
Lab II 2211 - Stem Cell Research

 

Weekly Schedule

Week #
Date
Activities
Special Room
1
Jan. 6
 Introduction to seminar
How to read scientific papers		  
2
Jan. 13
 Plagiarism Workshop
INS Tea		 CAB 110
3
Jan. 20
 HOLIDAY  
4
Jan. 27
 Review of research papers found to date  
5
Feb. 3
 Your Future: Science Programs at TESC CAB 110
6
Feb. 10
 Work on poster project with your partner 
(no formal seminar meeting)		  
7
Feb. 17
 HOLIDAY  
8
Feb. 24
 Review of draft of posters by seminar group  
9
Mar. 3
 POSTER SESSION I  
10
Mar. 10
 POSTER SESSION II  

 

Poster Project

We will work in pairs on posters to be presented to the entire class at the end of winter quarter. Each pair of students will do library research on one of three topics:

1. Global Climate Change

2. Genetically Modified Organisms

3. Stem Cell Research

 Each group (pair) will choose a stance from which to view the topic and develop a poster to support that viewpoint. In order to gain the maximum benefit from the project, you might consider choosing a viewpoint that you know little about, or that you currently disagree with.

As part of the development of the poster, each group should prepare an annotated bibliography of the most pertinent materials referenced in the poster. This should be included as part of the poster. A bibliography is a list of references in alphabetical order that includes all information required for the reader to look up the reference themselves. Annotated means that you should also include a very brief (one or two sentence) synopsis of what the paper covers. The annotation is usually included in italics immediately after the reference.

Below is an example of an annotated reference:

Bocking, S. 2001. Arctic Contaminants and Country Foods: Scientific and Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Risks. Environmental Practice 3(2):103-112. Review of environmental health research in Canadian Arctic from both scientific and social perspectives. Focuses on advice given by scientists to indigenous peoples regarding health risks of wild foods.
  Getting Started

On the first day of the quarter, we will:

1. Match students with the three main topics

2. Choose subtopics within the three main topics

3. Choose groups of two for the poster projects

4. Talk about how to carry out the research
 
 
Additional guidance from the faculty will be provided over the course of the quarter.