| Courses For Everyone II | |
| These courses are specifically designed as general studies courses, suitable for students seeking to fulfill their core requirements or simply following the dictates of their own interests. | |
| CHE142 Molecules | |
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This course
will introduce you to chemistry through the study
of the structure and workings of those molecules
which we encounter in our everyday life. There is a
required lab which must be taken concurrently
with the lecture part of the course. Molecules
fulfills the core science requirement and is also
one of the chemistry courses that IDS students can
use to meet their science requirement.
3 hours of lecture, 3 hours of lab, 4 credits |
| PHY142 Astronomy | |
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This course
covers precisely what its name implies: stars and
planets, telescopes and galaxies. In addition to 2
hours of lecture per week, you have to be willing
to commit to 3 or 4 nights during the semester
(about 12 hours) for viewing the night sky through
our telescopes. There is an optional lab, so you
have the flexibility to fulfill your core lab
requirement if you need to. This course counts
towards the IDS science requirement.
3 hours of lecture, 3 credits, optional: 3 hours of lab, 1 credit |
| PHY151 Physics for Poets | |
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What is the world made of and why does it work the way it does? People have been asking these questions since antiquity and this course surveys the answers and how the intellectual argument has arrived where it is today, and particularly how it has been driven by the work done by physicists. This course counts towards the IDS science requirement. 3 hours of lecture, 3 credits |
| CHE145 The Process of Chemical Discovery (currently CHE389) | |
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The web of scientific discovery has its origins in history, culture, scientific inquiry, and blind luck. How are the sciences related to one another, and how are history, culture, technology and science related? This course is offered 6 hours per week (for a total of 14 three hour sessions, during the second portion of the semester. It counts as a core science elective, and it also may be applied to the IDS science requirement. 14 three hour lectures spanning (approximately) the last 8 weeks of the semester, 3 credits |