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New CNSI / CNS Education Program: INSCITES Student Teaching Scholars
Using NSF funds, the CNSI, in collaboration with researchers at
the CNS, are starting a program this fall that will give
graduate students the opportunity to design and teach new
modular courses that integrate "real" science and engineering
within a societal context: history, economics, politics, etc.
The program is called "INSCITES": INsights on SCIence and
TEchnology for Society. The proposed title of the course for
the first year is "Understanding Today's Technology."
The course will include important mathematical and conceptual
building blocks of understanding, and hands-on involvement
through illustrative labs. The societal context would bring
scientific invention out of the lab and into common usage,
examining how science and technology transforms people's lives
and visa versa.
The class will be collaboratively designed, and is intended for
lower division undergraduates, without any pre-requisites. Each
year, a particular science or technology theme will be
identified by those developing the course. In time, it is hoped
that different modular themes will serve as the base for a
"liberal arts of science and engineering".
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