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Science Course
SCIE 1130: Scientific Understanding of Our World
Purpose of this course:
To stimulate young people to think about important problems in science and to develop a habit of independent thinking.
This is a general education course designed to help students to obtain an overall scientific understanding of our world. Particularly, we would like to discuss the following questions:
Where does this universe come from?
What is the origin of matter?
What is the origin of life?
What guides human behavior?
What shapes the development of human society?
What will be the future of this world?
Features of this course:
We will invite experts in different disciplines to lecture on different topics.
The lecture will be focused more on the philosophical aspect of the topic rather than technical details.
We will teach the students not only what scientists know today, we will also talk about what scientists do not know.
We would like to design this as a highly interactive course. We encourage open discussion during the class.
The lecture part is about 1 hour, followed by open discussion (about 20 minutes).
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