COMP 1503 [1] with D or better or BIOL 1303 with D or better or BIOL 1404 [2]with D or better or BIOL 1813 with D or better or BIOL 2204 [3]with D or better or BIOL 2504 [4] with D or better or BIOL 2803 [5]with D or better or BIOL 4254 [6]with D or better or CHEM 1114 [7]with D or better or CHEM 1514 with D or better or CHEM 1984 [8]with D or better or CHEM 2124 [9]with D or better or CHEM 2984 [10]with D or better or CHEM 3514 [11]with D or better or CHEM 4524 [12]with D or better or PHYS 1024 [13] with D or better or PHYS 1044 [14] with D or better or PHYS 1064 [15] with D or better or PHYS 2014 [16] with D or better or PHYS 2023 [17] with D or better or PHYS 2044 [18] with D or better or PHYS 2064 [19] with D or better and BIOL 1104 [20] with D or better
This course is designed to develop and refine students' views about the nature of science, and the nature of change, both gradual and revolutionary, in scientific theory. This course uses work in the history of science and philosophy of science to address the nature of scientific disciplines (the theories and problems which characterize them); the relations between theory and the empirical work; and the nature of theory changes in the sciences. The course has also been designed to help students refine their ability to read and write scholarly work, including a major research project.
