[PHY280 001, CRN 58705]
Spring 2007
Class Coordinator: Warren Pickett (Physics). Office: Physics-Geology 427. Telephone:2-0927. wepickett@ucdavis.edu
Room/time: 416 Physics-Geology Bldg, 9:00-10:50 Fridays.
Web page: http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/course/280/Class.html
Course description from catalog: Studies of topical and historical issues in the ethics of science, possibly including issues such as proper authorship, peer review, fraud, plagiarism, responsible collaboration, and conflict of interest.
Outline:
Guest presenters list:
Text:
The Many Faces of Science: An Introduction to Scientists, Values,
and Society,
Leslie Stevenson and Henry Byerly, Westview
Press, Boulder CO, 2000. 2nd edition.
Grading:
S/U, based on class participation and presentations.
Potential Course Overlap:We know of no relevant course at
the graduate level.
Additional
Information:The rationale for cross listing is
manifold:
1) This course was developed as an introduction to
interdisciplinary ethics in science through the NSF IGERT
grant program on "Nanoparticles in the Environment,
Agriculture, and Technology." Such a
science/engineering ethics class is important and has been missing from the
curricula of all departments.
2) The cross listing
assures that the class will always be interdisciplinary in character
(usually team-taught).
3). The cross listing assures that the course can 'adapt' to the
class to reflect current issues of intense interest in terms of
their ethic implications.
4.) A serious
problem with the current approach to such new classes is that they
are almost always taught as overloads. Successful cross listing may
help to mitigate that overload problem for participating faculty by
normalizing it within existing departmental teaching assignments.