CHID 270 C: Special Topics

"LIT AND THE ENVIRONMENT" SCIENCE IS IN EQUALLY FUNDAMENTAL WAYS A SOCIAL, CIVIC, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ENTERPRISE, DEEPLY INTERTWINED WITH THE WAYS IN WHICH HUMAN BEINGS DEFINE THEMSELVES AND ORGANIZE THEIR ACTIVITIES. THIS HOLDS TRUE, INDEED IS ESPECIALLY TRUE, FOR NON-SCIENTISTS AND NON- RESEARCHERS. OUR TOPIC IN THIS COURSE WILL BE THIS ASPECT OF SCIENCE: HOW IT REACHES INTO SOCIAL LIFE, SHAPING THE INTELLECTUAL FRAMEWORKS THROUGH WHICH WE UNDERSTAND OUR WORLD (AND OURSELVES), AFFECTING PUBLIC PROCESSES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING, AND INFLUENCING OU DAILY INTERACTIONS WITH PEOPLE AND WITH THE NATURAL WORLD IN WAYS BOTH OBVIOUS AND UNOBTRUSIVE. OFFERED VIA REMOTE LEARNING