| Week 0-- Begins Friday, Jan 5 | ||
| Day of the week. | This column indicates which instigation group will present on each day. | Instructions, reading assignments, writing assignments, etc. |
| Week 1-- Begins Jan 8 | ||
| M | Welcome. What is this class? What is the cultural studies of science? | |
| W | Kuhn Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 5 | |
| F | 1 | Kuhn Chapters 7, 9, & 10 Optional: If you want to play with a java applet that demonstrates the epicycles of the pre-Copernican model of the solar system, you can find one here. |
| Week 2-- Begins Jan 15 | ||
| M | No Class. MLK day. | |
| W | 2 | Kuhn Chapters 11 & 12 |
| F | 3 | Paul Feyerabend from Against Method (on reserve) |
| Week 3-- Begins Jan 22 | ||
| M | 4 | Gross and Levitt "The Cultural Construction of Cultural Constructivism" (from Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science) (on reserve) |
| W | 5 | Oscar Kenshur, "Doubt, Certainty, Faith, and Ideology" (on reserve) |
| F | Summary Assignment 1 due | |
| Week 4-- Begins Jan. 29 | ||
| M | 1 | Newton, Selections from Principalia Mathematica and Optiks, on line. Newton's Dynamics (on reserve) |
| W | 2 | Newton's "True Religion" and Alchemy (on reserve) |
| F | 3 | Swift, from the third book of Gulliver's Travels. On-line reading. |
| Week 5-- Begins Feb. 5 | ||
| M | 4 | More Swift, from the third book of Gulliver's Travels. On-line reading. |
| W | 5 | Robert Markley "Representing Order: Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution." (on reserve) |
| F | 1 | Sections from The Philosophy of Tops and Balls (on reserve) |
| Week 6 -- Begins Feb. 12 What "Newtonian dynamics" has come to mean | ||
| M | 2 | Poets respond On-line reading. |
| W | 3 | Selections from Prigogene's Order out of Chaos (on reserve) |
| F | Summary Assignment 2 due | |
| Week 7-- Begins Feb. 19 | ||
| M | 4 | Willis p. 1-92 (Beginnings and Bubblings) |
| W | 5 | Willis p. 93-136 (Tributaries) |
| F | 1 | Willis p. 137-211(Rapids) |
| Week 8-- Begins Feb. 26 | ||
| M | 2 | Willis p. 212-end (Main Channel) |
| W | Writing Workshop | |
| F | Paper Due--Happy Spring Break! | |
| Week 9-- Begins March 12 | ||
| M | Intro to Spinning the future | |
| W | 3 | Wells Ch 1-4 |
| F | 4 | Wells Ch 5-7 |
| Week 10-- Begins March 19 | ||
| M | 5 | Wells Ch 8-Epilogue |
| W | 1 | Discuss Movie The Time Machine (1960) Movie will be shown on Tuesday at 4:30 and at 6:30pm in Skiles 370. |
| F | *********No Class Meeting*******
Begin Reading Permutation City |
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| Week 11-- Begins March 26 | ||
| M | 2 | Egan Prologue -- Chapter 10 |
| W | 3 | Egan Chapters 11 --15 |
| F | 4 | Egan Chapters 16 --22
Final Project Proposal due |
| Week 12-- Begins April 2 | ||
| M | 5 | Egan Chapter 23 -- Epilogue & glance at Egan's homepage here |
| W | Writing Workshop | |
| F | Paper Due | |
| Week 13-- Begins April 9 | ||
| M | Research Day--Meet with your groups in the library | |
| W | In-Class Progress Report meetings with me | |
| F | Research Day--Meet with your groups in the library | |
| Week -- Begins April 16 | ||
| M | How to make a web page. Optional. We will meet in my office at class time, and I currently plan to teach MS FrontPage (since interest has only been expressed in this program). Right now numbers of participating students are small enough that we will be able to do this in my office. If you change your mind and plan to come, please e-mail me in advance. | |
| W | In-Class Progress Report meetings with me | |
| F | Research Day--Meet with your groups in the library | |
| Week -- Begins April 23--Student Presentations! | ||
| M | Schedule of presentations is here. Note that my 10am section will meet in Skiles 357. | |
| W | Presentations | |
| F | Presentations
Final Project due. |
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