The Survey of Science course is intended mainly for liberal arts and business students. It emphasizes history of science and experiments. The course will combine readings and experiments ranging from the classical Greeks to the 20th Century, from Hippocrates to Einstein.
      The lab is required with the lecture course and will fulfill the GER for science.

Prerequisite: Math 105 or higher

TEXTBOOK:

"The Great Scientists" by Jack Meadows (1992) with supplemental readings from the series "The Great Books of the Western World".

GOALS:

1. To help students learn more about the great ideas of science by studying the history of these ideas in the Western World. 2. To help bridge the gap between the arts and the sciences. 3. To learn more about science by doing representative experiments, graphing, computations, and by learning to draw proper conclusions.

SOME TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

medicine, astronomy, biology, physics, and geology.

SOME AUTHORS SURVEYED:

Aristotle, Copernicus, Newton, Darin, and Einstein.

GRADES:

A = 93%;

B = 85%;

C = 78%;

D = 70%;

F = below 70%

Grades will be based on : Test results, homework, class attendance, class participation.

LAB MANUAL:

"Survey of Science Lab Experiments", Holmes & Ryan ($2.00, purchase from the lab teacher)

GOALS:

1. To learn to make measurements, record data, make graphs and computations; and to draw correct conclusions from experiments. 2. To learn how science studies nature; to learn how science is one way of gaining knowledge.

EXPERIMENTS: There will be nine experiments:

1. Density and Archimedes' Principle
2. Acceleration due to Gravity
3. Properties of Light
4. Waves and the Vibrating String
5. The Spectrograph
6. Ohm's Law
7. Magnetism
8. Decomposition of Water by Electrolysis
9. Radioactivity

The lab teacher will inform students with respect to lab reports.

GRADES:

A = 93%;

B = 85%;

C = 78%;

D = 70%;

F = below 70%

Grades are based on attendance at labs, performance of the experiments, and the written lab reports.

There will not be a lab exam.