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Foun 1201 Course Outline Assessment 2020-21 Sem I

This document provides an overview of the topics and assessments for a science and technology course over 12 weeks. It includes: 1. An introduction to the purpose and methodology of the course in the first 4 weeks, covering scientific reasoning, observation, and the history and progress of science. 2. Modules on current issues in the environment, energy, health, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and gender in weeks 5 through 11. 3. Assessment through reflections, online multiple choice quizzes, discussions, group presentations, and an individual research paper from weeks 1 through 12, making up 100% of the course grade.

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Foun 1201 Course Outline Assessment 2020-21 Sem I

This document provides an overview of the topics and assessments for a science and technology course over 12 weeks. It includes: 1. An introduction to the purpose and methodology of the course in the first 4 weeks, covering scientific reasoning, observation, and the history and progress of science. 2. Modules on current issues in the environment, energy, health, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and gender in weeks 5 through 11. 3. Assessment through reflections, online multiple choice quizzes, discussions, group presentations, and an individual research paper from weeks 1 through 12, making up 100% of the course grade.

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Week of Module 1 Topics Assessment

Introduction Assessment is 100%


Purpose of course: Difference between science and technology
Sep 21 What is medicine? coursework (No final
Importance of ethics in science exam)
Nature of Science
Methodology 1: Scientific Reasoning Submit Reflections on Purpose by
Sep 28 Induction and Deduction Oct 4 (4%)
Frege’s System of Logic
Nature of Science
Methodology 2: Observation Submit Reflections on Methodology I
Oct 5 Experimentation by Oct 4 (4%)
Models, theories and laws
Nature of Science
Progress: History of Science
Submit Reflections on Methodology
Oct 12 How science progresses
2 by Oct 18 (4%)
How technology progresses
Innovation in science and technology
Nature of Science
Key Concepts: Introduction to key concepts
Structure of the atom Submit Reflections on Progress by
Oct 19 Oct 25 (4%)
Basic cell structure, cell types
Genetics and basis of inheritance

Week of Module 2 Topics Assessment


Submit Reflections on Key Concepts
Current issues by Nov 1 (4% - 20% total)
Oct 26 Environment: Climate change Groups formed in tutorials to start
Resource security research on topics from modules1 &
2 for oral presentations as groups
and individual research papers
50 online MCQs on Module 1 only
Current Issues (opens 12:00 am Oct 30 and closes
Nov 2 Energy: Energy and society 11:59 pm on Nov 2). Best of two
Alternative energy
attempts (20%)
Current Issues
Health: Communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases
Online forum discussion opens
Nov 9 Nutritional diseases
Oral presentations by groups begin
Genetic diseases
Substance abuse
Current Issues
Online forum discussion continues
Biotechnology: What is biotechnology?
Oral presentations by groups
Nov 16 Applications
continue
Eugenics
Gene editing
Current Issues
ICT: What is compute science & Information Technology? Online forum discussion closes at
Intellectual property 11:59 pm on Nov 27 (20%)
Nov 23 Oral presentations by groups
Gender: Gender versus sex completed (10%)
Women as science
Women in science
Research Paper submitted by 11:59
Dec 7
pm on Dec 7 (30%)

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