Summary:

YOU MADE IT! Here we are in unit 15. Well done!

I like to use the last week of the semester to take a step back and think about why a class like this is important in a college education and in society as a whole. Your reading is about the connection between science and society. Your activity will involve finding a video clip of someone for whom our class would have provided some benefit.

Learning Objectives:

  • understand that science does not exist in a vacuum; it is a human endeavor that influences and is influenced by our society
  • make connections between our course and the “outside world” 🙂

Unit 15, Class 27, [Day/Date] Required Readings/Videos:

  1. Reading: “Science and Society” and “What has science done for you lately?” in the UC Berkeley’s Understanding Science OER available here: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/scienceandsociety_01 (it’s 5 pages to click through for the first part and then 7 pages to click through for the second).
  2. Reading: Hopf et al. 2019. Fake science and the knowledge crisis: ignorance can be fatal. R. Soc. Open Sci. 6: 190161. Link.

Unit 15, Class 27 [Day/Date] Self-Assessment

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Unit 15, Class 28, [Day/Date] Required Readings/Videos:

  1. Reading: Panthagani. 2024. “Science, Policy, and Values” https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/science-policy-and-values?r=g2ax8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Unit 15, Class 28, [Day/Date]Self Assessment

[form here]

Unit 15 Assignments Due

  • STEAM: peer-review activity due [Day/Date]
  • Optional MAP – video FINAL DRAFT due [Day/Date]
  • Science in the City Blog Post due [Day/Date]