I love the idea of this "What is a #fact?" #humanities course aimed at #STEM students (as described in @TheConversationUS) and absolutely wish I could read the whole syllabus!
‘What is a fact?’ A humanities class prepares STEM students to be better scientists
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.The Conversation
Zack Batist
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in reply to Zack Batist • • •@zackbatist What key texts would you want for a first-year undergrad course like this?
Like I said, I'd love to see a full syllabus—and I think it would be fascinating to see the variations between what people consider appropriate for, say, a first-year course, a third-year course, and what interdisciplinary grad students should know in their first year about this.
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in reply to The Conversation U.S. • • •@zackbatist Oh wow, thank you so much!
I didn't intend that "I'd love…" as a request, since I know not every instructor feels comfortable sharing a full syllabus. But if there happens to be a link available, I'd certainly be interested!
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in reply to Ryan for a permanent ceasefire • • •I actually didn't pick up on the fact that this is intended for first year students, oops. But one implicit aspect of "ethics for engineers" type courses is that they tend to be corrective measures rather than foundational, or clearing misconceptions that can actually be avoided altogether.
For me personally, https://doi.org/10.2307/2928741 really helped shape my perspective of the nature of facts, and Chapter 2 of Pandora's Hope serves an illustrative case
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in reply to Zack Batist • • •morton_ENGL_101_Syllabus.pdf
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