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Teaching Science to the 21st Century Student

Highlights of a new course for non-science majors

Demonstration of use of computer and network - aided instruction

Table of Contents for Teaching Science to the 21st Century Student

001 Teaching Science to the 21st Century Student
    Gianfranco Vidali
    Physics Department, Syracuse University
002 Outline
003 Syracuse University
004 Science for the 21st Century
    Principal Features
005 Course Structure
006 Enrollment in Phy 105/106
007 Syllabus / Representative Modules
008 Scientific Literacy (1 semester)
009 Lectures (mechanics)
010 Actual lecture
011 Excerpts from lecture on cosmology
    PHY106 - Spring 1996
012 Stars, galaxies, and black holes
    Part 1 of 3
013 References
014 What is out there?
015 New discovery: Jan 15 1996
016 Detection by the Hubble space telescope of unseen
    regions of universe;
017 Hubble space telescope
018 Galaxies
019 spiral galaxies
020 References for Hubble Space Telescope Example
021 End of excerpt of lecture on cosmology
022 Excerpt from lecture on plate tectonics - PHY105 Fall 1995
023 Plate Tectonics - Part II
024 Wegener's theory
025 Theory: continents move (1912)
026 Plate Tectonics

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