Course on the nature of physical science
作者:
Patrick G. Derr,
Roy S. Andersen,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 49,
issue 11
页码: 1031-1034
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1119/1.12578
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
关键词: NATURAL SCIENCES;EDUCATION
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
There is increasing student and administrative demand for courses in the natural sciences that are accessible to undergraduates who are not majoring in a science. As the current trend to reimpose academic distribution requirements continues, the demand will increase still further. This paper describes a course that legitimately serves such a demand, and provides the nonscience student with an understanding of the methods and nature of natural science. The course is a seminar organized around a detailed examination of the Copernican revolution, in part through Copernicus’s original writings and in part through contemporary historical and philosophical analyses. The authors conclude that the course provides a successful model for achieving the aim of deepening the nonscientist’s understanding of what science is and how it proceeds.
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