Integrated Science:
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Course Description: Natural Science is at the heart of our daily life. We need a public that possesses sufficient knowledge of Natural Science to create a healthier, greener, more productive society. Any decision making process involving modern medicine, green biotechnology, or novel energy sources demands a working knowledge of science, how scientific knowledge is developed, as well as the limitations of science. Consequently, the students will develop sufficient knowledge in physics, chemistry, and biology. Course activities will include lectures, student presentations, in-class experiments and readings that connect the obtained knowledge to the daily life.
Course Objectives: We aim to enable any student, especially those whose specialties are not natural science, to read articles about genetic engineering or chemistry with the same ease as articles about sports and politics. Sufficient knowledge will be developed to understand a series of scientific concepts, scientific subjects, and equations. The students will connect them to a network. This will create “critical thinkers” that can use science information for a better and healthier society.
Integrated Science Laboratory:
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Course Description: The Integrated Science Laboratory accompanies and deepens the knowledge gained in the Integrated Science Lecture (SCNS 100) and applies concepts that have been have been taught in the Integrated Science Lecture to other phenomena. Experiments will include classical physics (force and motion, light and color, sound and waves, electrostatics, magnetism, electricity), chemistry (organic and inorganic chemistry), and biological related experiments. The students will not follow a defined protocol. Instead, they should develop the skills for scientific thinking; making an observation, proposing a hypothesis, designing and performing of an experiment to prove the hypothesis, refine the hypothesis, and confirm the hypothesis to obtain a natural law.
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Course Objectives: Upon completing of this course the students can follow laboratory safety rules, recognize hazardous situations and be able to carry out laboratory procedures correctly. Furthermore, it will be possible for the students to convert experimental data to a model, judge if the models “make sense” and learn how to communicate and record data correctly. These hands on experience will enable the student to gain trust into the natural laws, hypothesis and dogma that have been explained in the Integrated Science Lecture course.
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