Combining Two Cultures McMaster University's Arts and Science Programme,9780761829294

Combining Two Cultures McMaster University's Arts and Science Programme

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ISBN13: 9780761829294
ISBN10: 0761829296
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-01
Publisher(s): UPA
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Summary

Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader, more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this synthesis.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
I The Programme Takes Shape
1 Quest for Meaning in Undergraduate Education
Leslie J. King
3(14)
2 Planning and Approval of the Arts and Science Programme
Herb Jenkins
17(28)
3 The Programme in Practice
Barbara Ferrier
45(10)
II The Courses
4 Western Civilization Courses
Louis Greenspan
55(12)
5 Writing and Informal Logic
Writing
Sylvia Bowerhank
67(15)
Informal Logic: Listening is the Beginning of Peace.
Mark Vorobej
82(15)
6 Inquiry Courses
97(32)
Introduction Graham Knight and Jennifer
Smith Maguire
98(6)
Third World Development: A First-Year Inquiry Course
Barbara Ferrier and Herb Jenkins
104(5)
Media: An Upper Level Inquiry Course
Graham Knight and Jennifer Smith Maguire
109(12)
Discovery-The Context of Scientific Research: An Upper Level Inquiry Course
P.K. Rangachari
121(8)
7 Mathematics and Physics Courses
The Role of Science and Mathematics in the Curriculum and Links among the Courses
Bill Harris
129(3)
Calculus (Arts and Science Mathematics Course)
Miroslav Lovric
132(12)
Statistics: Mathematical Models of Change, Chance and Error
Román Viveros-Aguilera
144(7)
Physics
Bill Harris
151(6)
8 Literature
Jean Wilson
157(20)
9 Technology and Society
Bob Hudspith
177(18)
III What Have We Done and Where Are We Going?
10 The Human Face of the Programme
Barbara Ferrier
Students
195(7)
Graduates: Some Personal Histories
202(40)
Instructors
242
11 What Have We Achieved?
Barbara Ferrier
259(10)
12 Future Directions
Gary Warner
269(6)
13 Reflections
Herb Jenkins, Barbara Ferrier, Louis Greenspan, and Michael Ross
275(14)
Contributors 289

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