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| Nanotechnology and Society (201) |
2004-2005
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| University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Wisconsin
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Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education
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| Course description, objectives, and philosophy.
This is a new course offered by the University on a new subject. I have no doubt that we will all me included learn new things as we go. Broadly, the objectives of this course can be summarized as follows:
to introduce you to the broad and ill-defined field of nanotechnology and the science and technology behind it;
to consider the societal implications of nanotech in the context of social, scientific, historical, political, environmental, philosophical, ethical, and cultural ideas applied from other fields and prior work;
to develop your questioning, thinking, idea producing, and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Course requirements.
Required materials: We will use one small text, available at the campus bookstore, in addition to supplemental reading materials, which will be available in a reader, which you can buy at the Life Science Copy Shop in the Agricultural Engineering Building (located around the back of the building they only except cash or checks).
S. Fritz, Understanding Nanotechnology, from the editors of Scientific American, Warner Books (2002).
A course reader available at the Life Sciences Copy Shop.
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| Program: Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Nanotechnology and Society
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