Dr. Matt Ramspott

IDIS 160: Science, Technology, & Society

What on Earth? Scientific Reasoning and the Environment

Course Syllabus:

Spring 2009 Syllabus

Textbook:

Tillery, B.W., E.D. Enger, and F.C. Ross. 2007. Integrated Science, 4th ed. McGraw Hill Higher Education, New York.
ISBN13: 978-0073353173

Web resources related to class readings and activities:

• Galileo's Experiments
  
  
• Smithsonian Magazine
• "What's Eating America" -- article by Michael Pollan from July 2006
  
  
• National Geographic Magazine
  • "Dirt Poor" -- article by Joel K. Bourne from September 2008
  • "Our Good Earth" -- article by Charles C. Mann from September 2008
  • "The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom" -- article by Robert Kunzig from March 2009
    
    
• Focus Frostburg 2009 -- includes the schedule of events
  

• National Council for Science and the Environment -- Conference Materials Page
  • "Lessons from Environmental Collapses of Past Societies" -- lecture by Jared Diamond

   

• Michael Pollan's Web Page
  
  
• U.S. Census Bureau -- International Data Base
  
  
• World in the Balance (PBS Program)
  
  
• Carl Sagan Web Pages
  
  
• Maryland Power Plant Research Program (PPRP)
  
  
• Alaska Pipeline (PBS Program)
  
  
• Encyclopedia of Earth
  
  
• FSU Renewable Energy Outreach Project

• Google Maps

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