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Week-by-week

• Week 1

• Week 2

• Week 3

• Week 4

• Week 5

• Week 6

• Week 7

• Week 8

• Week 9

• Week 10

Week 9

This week we will be discussing ethics in science, working with dynamic modeling software, and assessing your grasp of the content of the course. Make sure you have looked at the checklist of things you should know how to do.

Assignments:

CGS = Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith
USR = Understanding Scientific Reasoning by Ronald Giere (4th edition)
GC = Galileo's Commandment edited by Edmund Bolles

Before coming to class, you should have completed the following readings:

CGS: None
USR: None, but chapters 9 and 10 are short and thought-provoking.
Handouts: Genetically Modified Food
Handout: Ethics 101
Handout: Co-Author Question Dominates Ethics Panel Discussion
Handout: Criminality in XYY and XXY men. In addition, you should have completed the two-page writing assignment for this handout.

Activities:

• Assessment: Checklist -- What you need to know.
• Dynamic models: fisheries
• Seminar: Ethics

Looking ahead:

In week10, you will present your group projects and we will wrap up the program.