Teaching science and ethics to undergraduates: a multidisciplinary approach.
The teaching of the ethical implications of scientific advances in science courses for undergraduates has significant advantages for both science and non-science majors. The article describes three courses taught by the author as examples of the concept, and examines the disadvantages as well as the advantages. A significant advantage of this approach is that many students take the courses primarily because of the ethical component who would not otherwise take science. A disadvantage is less time in the course for the science; arguably, this is outweighed by the greater retention of the science when it is put into context.
Interdisciplinary Science, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, 65 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA. mcgowana@newschool.edu
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McGowan
D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D012586:Science / Q000193:education* / Q000941:ethics*; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014495:Universities