| Course Name | Scientific Thinking and Society |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GENS 207 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to help the students to develop a critical perspective about science and its relationship with society. In the first part of the course, the period during which modern science was born will be discussed in a broader fashion. In the second part, the focus will be on a series of issues taken from more recent periods of history of science. This course is for students that are interested in popular science. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course is designed to discuss the relationship between science and the society that generates it. |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction: Presentation of the Course and Discussion on Science | Course syllabus |
| 2 | Prehistoric World: Early Human Societies and the Origin of Science | H.S. Williams, A History of Science, Vol.I: Book I: Prehistoric Science, 2013 |
| 3 | Archaic World : Civilization and Science | R.G. Menon, An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science, 2.1-2.4, 2009 |
| 4 | The Iron Age: the Classical Greek Culture | R. E. Lerner, Western Civilization: Their History and Culture, 1998, 105-207 |
| 5 | From Myth to Rational Thought: Science in Ancient Greece | R. E. Lerner, Western Civilization: Their History and Culture, 1998, 119-141 |
| 6 | Medieval Science and Technique: Dogma Versus Science | J.D. Bernal, Science in History, 1954/2012, 208-245 |
| 7 | The Birth of Modern Science : From Metaphysics to Empiricism | H. Merlin ed., The History of Science, 2014, 44-61 |
| 8 | The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | R. E. Lerner, Western Civilization: Their History and Culture, 1998, 643-678 |
| 9 | The Classic Age of Science: Mechanics, Chemistry and Biology | H. Merlin ed., The History of Science, 2014, 62-75 |
| 10 | Science & Industrialization | J.D. Bernall, 352-405 |
| 11 | The Revolutions in Science and Society : the 20th Century | J.D. Bernall, 511-593 |
| 12 | Social Thought and Science: From Feudalism to Marxism | J.D. Bernall, 693-761 |
| 13 | The Social Sciences in the 20th century | J.D. Bernall, 774-856 |
| 14 | Science and Pseudoscience | B. L. Beyerstein, Distinquishing Science from Pseudoscience, 1995, 1-50 |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final examination |
| Course Notes/Textbooks |
R. E. Lerner, Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture, London, 1998 H. Merlin ed., The History of Science, New York, 2014 J.D. Bernal, Science in History, Vol. 1, New York, 1954/2012 B. L. Beyerstein, Distinquishing Science from Pseudoscience, Canada, 1995, 1-50 |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | ||
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 60 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 15 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 25 | |
| Total | 120 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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