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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because physics is the basic science—the foundation of chemistry, biology, and all disciplines of science—it should be part of the educational mainstream for both science and nonscience students.
		For these students, the math requirement is an unfortunate roadblock, for, when the ideas of physics are presented conceptually and when equations are seen as guides to thinking rather than recipes for algebraic manipulation, our discipline is accessible to all students—with or without a math foundation.
		For the nonscience student, it is a base from which to view nature more perceptively—to see that at surprisingly few relationships make up its rules.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/physicsplace/medialib/about (216 words)

	Integrated Science Information Center: Book Preface
		It is intended to serve the needs of nonscience majors who are required to complete one or more science courses as part of a general or basic studies requirement.
		Historically, nonscience majors had to enroll in courses intended for science or science-related majors such as premeds, architects, or engineers.
		The use of everyday examples appeals to the nonscience major, typically accustomed to reading narration, not scientific technical writing, and also tends to bring relevancy to the material being presented.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072467002/information_center_view0/book_preface.html (796 words)

	Skeptical Inquirer: The Shaky Ground Between Science and Nonscience... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shermer distinguishes normal science, nonscience, and borderlands science and lists examples of each, along with his judgment about their scientific validity.
		He says that because claims in each of the categories are fuzzy they can be reevaluated and moved to a different category as a result of changing evidence.
		All of the normal science claims (e.g., plate tectonics), he maintains, were once either in the nonscience or borderlands science categories, and it is the latter category to which the book is devoted.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:100755227&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (814 words)

	School Science and Mathematics: "qualitative" differences in problem-solving procedures and thinking ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This study was conducted to explore the differences of problem-solving procedures and thinking structures between science majors and nonscience majors.
		Chi, Glaser, and Rees (1982) concluded that there were three main methods for characterizing the differences between experts and novices in scientific domains: diagnoses of misconceptions, analyses of similarities among elements in the domain and information processing analyses of how problems are solved.
		Maloney (1985) compared the problem solving procedures on a series of questions about the conservation of mechanical energy between science majors and nonscience majors, and he then found that experts and novices seemed to use different strategies for problem solving.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3667/is_199610/ai_n8746142 (1128 words)

	Critical Reading Response:
		The text is laden with facts that involve many important points dealing with the livelihood of the human race and the chance to save the planet.
		Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense, introduced me to many problems of which I was unaware.
		Science, Nonscience, and Nonsense, was based on many surprising facts that have rarely been presented in quite the same way.
	www.msu.edu /user/rossjoan/fa1997/zimmchris.htm (1069 words)

	University of Colorado at Boulder Catalog \| 2001-02
		Introduces principles of modern astronomy for nonscience majors, summarizing our present knowledge about the Sun, stars, birth and death of stars, neutron stars, fl holes, galaxies, quasars, and the organization and origins of the universe.
		Examines principles of modern astronomy for nonscience majors, summarizing our present knowledge about the Earth, moon, planets, Sun, and the origin of life.
		Examines principles of modern astronomy for nonscience majors, summarizing our present knowledge about the Sun, stars, neutron stars, fl holes, interstellar gas, galaxies, quasars, and the structure and origins of the universe.
	www.colorado.edu /sacs/catalog01-02/c.html?c=3-6&p=3-65 (2515 words)

	Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science
		Mean score comparison of male/female, urban/rural, and science/nonscience major subgroups—though not significant—favored males, graduates of urban high schools, and nonscience majors.
		The mean score of nonscience majors was higher than that of science majors, but not significantly.
		The test performance of the nonscience majors offers no clear information that might explain why this group performed better than the science majors.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /OAS/oas_htm_files/v63/p78_82.html (2038 words)

	Clark University - Clarknews fall 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blatt's team realized that for many, if not most, nonscience majors, Discovering Physics would be the only science course of their college career.
		"We wanted these nonscience majors to get some appreciation for the way physics works and the way science works in general, because science is so important in our society today," Blatt explains.
		For sociology major Elizabeth Henry '05, Discovering Physics was "the perfect class for the nonscience major." She "loved the hands-on approach" and appreciated the especially supportive learning environment.
	www.clarku.edu /alumni/clarknews/fall04/physics.shtml (1078 words)

	The Philosophy Page
		But scientists want to distinguish the claims of science about the causes, for example, of volcanic eruptions from the popular Hawaiian lore, which claims that volcanoes erupt when the gods are angry, or of falling objects from the Bushmen's belief that Coke bottles fall from the sky because of the temporary insanity of the gods.
		We thus understand a proper demarcation between science and nonscience in terms of the character of scientific inquiry and any practice that substantially violates that character (i.e., fails to progress over time in most or all of the values of science) can be judged as nonscience.
		In a further criticism of these three criteria as demarcating science from nonscience, Quinn notes that tentativeness is a psychological, rather than epistemic, condition on a state of belief - the ferocity (or lack thereof) with which a proposition is maintained is usually assumed to have nothing at all to do with its truth-status.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/topics/Philosophy/PSCF9-97Abney.html (5211 words)

	Chemistry - School of Undergraduate Studies - UMUC
		For students majoring or minoring in a science; not appropriate for nonscience students fulfilling general education requirements.) Prerequisite(s): CHEM 113, CHEM 135—136, or CHEM 153, with a grade of C or better.
		For students majoring or minoring in a science; not appropriate for nonscience students fulfilling general education requirements.
		(For students majoring or minoring in a science; not appropriate for nonscience students fulfilling general education requirements.) Prerequisite(s): CHEM 231—232, CHEM 233, or CHEM 237, with a grade of C or better.
	www.umuc.edu /prog/ugp/courses/chem_txt.shtml (602 words)

	JCE 2003 (80) 746 [Jul] Conceptual Chemistry: Understanding Our World of Atoms and Molecules (John Suchocki) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The book is targeted toward courses for nonscience majors and perhaps those in allied health sciences or the prep-chem audience.
		The first 12 of the 19 chapters are defined as the core of the course, and include: chemistry as a science; elements; atomic structure; the atomic nucleus; atomic models; bonding and shapes; molecules; water; chemical reactions; acids and bases; redox; and an introduction to organic chemistry.
		It is well-written and will be understandable to the nonscience major; it has a rational organization and layout.
	jchemed.chem.wisc.edu /Journal/Issues/2003/Jul/abs746.html (904 words)

	The Commercial Litigation Daubert Newsletter
		The key element of this apparent tension concerns the distinction between science and other learned disciplines and it exists because the Supreme Court seems to come down on both sides of the question.
		In an ideal world the fact that there is a clearly articulated distinction between science and nonscience would keep lawyers from having to argue against citations to the Supreme Court for the opposite proposition.
		While there would be substantial data issues complicating such a test, one need only poll a sample of science professors to be convinced that this null hypothesis is false and the alternate hypothesis is correct.
	www.daubertexpert.com /newsletter/0204.html (1886 words)

	AIP Niels Bohr Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Boulder Conference on Physics for Nonscience Majors : (1964 : Boulder, Colorado).
		The proceedings of the Boulder Conference on physics for nonscience majors / Edited by Malcolm Correll and Arnold A. Strassenburg.
		"A ten-day conference on physics for nonscience majors was held in Boulder Colorado from July 20 through July 29.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/14394.html (127 words)

	JCE 2005 (82) 1174 [Aug] Chemical Demonstrations as the Laboratory Component in Nonscience Majors Courses. An ...
		JCE 2005 (82) 1174 [Aug] Chemical Demonstrations as the Laboratory Component in Nonscience Majors Courses.
		The demonstration format provides the college nonscience students an active-learning experience that is able to provide motivation and generate interest.
		Overall, the students felt that the demonstration-focused laboratory succeeded in increasing their level of understanding of material, strengthened their interest in science, and held their interest.
	jchemed.chem.wisc.edu /Journal/Issues/2005/Aug/abs1174.html (344 words)

	LMFK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a 44 item questionnaire, which asks students to imagine themselves in certain situations and to rate their level of anxiety on a 5-degree scale: "not at all", "a little", "a fair amount", "much", and "very much".
		Items are evenly divided between science and nonscience content, with emphasis on analogous situations; e.g., studying for a physics exam vs. studying for a history exam.
		They concluded that gender was not a predictor of science anxiety, but that females who were science anxious interpreted their ability to do science more negatively than males, and took fewer science courses.
	www.tornio.fi /LMFK/kongressimallowi.htm (2192 words)

	'Beyond Star Trek' author to speak on dangers of nonscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Krauss says that the evolutionary and Big Bang theories are not controversial scientific issues, and moreover, their alternatives disagree with observation.
		Krauss is writing a new introductory physics text for nonscience majors in association with Prentice Hall, to be released in 2000, and has contracted with Little Brown and Company to produce a new book titled, "Genesis: The Lives of an Atom," to appear in 1999.
		Public television is currently undertaking to produce a TV series hosted by Krauss and based on his Genesis book.
	www.ku.edu /~kunews/1999/99N/OctNews/Oct11/beyond.html (510 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This paper describes an initial use of the Departmental LAN in a course for nonscience students.
		While many forms of computer aided instruction are available for majors at all levels, we found few if any useful for a terminal, nonmajors course.
		With all this, it should be remembered that the class consisted of nonscience students none or few of whom presumably had previous contact with electronic communication.
	www.inform.umd.edu /EdRes/Topic/Chemistry/ChemConference/Paper11/paper11.txt (1411 words)

	Targeting Future Teachers
		These courses are often taken by nonscience majors in lieu of courses in a particular scientific discipline.
		To broaden the scientific knowledge of nonscience majors (particularly future elementary and middle school teachers), we developed an integrated science course to be taught at MWC.
		We focused on the idea that more was better than less and developed a course that would build on the basics students learned in the introductory level course.
	www.nsta.org /main/news/stories/college_science.php?news_story_ID=47940 (2488 words)

	Letters - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And the fact that the question has arisen regarding how much "nonscience" students should be forced to study in science GE courses demonstrates that UCLA is not necessarily working to fix this problem.
		It should not stem from the false belief that north campus students cannot understand science and, therefore, should not be encouraged to study it.
		If science students are capable of enjoying Mozart or Chaucer, nonscience majors can be expected to at least have a vague appreciation for the works of Newton and Galileo.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=3955 (655 words)

	Biology
		Nonscience majors desiring to fulfill the Natural Science Core Curriculum requirement with biology may take courses from the major's or nonscience major's sequences.
		Designed primarily to be the first biology course for nonscience majors.
		Students should take courses from the major's track sequence (BIOL 1406, 1407, 1411, and 1413) or the nonscience major's sequence (BIOL 1308/1408 and 1309/1409) but not both.
	www.delmar.edu /catalog/descript/biol.html (1151 words)

	The annotated budak: Science & Nonscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Closer to home, a Singapore researcher offers a view of the SARS outbreak from a perspective that is both personal and professional.
		People should not be given the idea that evolution from monkey to man is a proven fact of science when it is not and the media should not just present one side of the story without presenting the evidence and theoretical considerations that contradict it.
		Battling the twisted and thoroughly untrue presentations of evolutionary theory that supposed pundits tout is a task I like not, preferring to invest my time to pursue the deeper knowledge of discoveries that reveal as much as they astound.
	budak.blogs.com /the_annotated_budak/science_nonscience (10009 words)

	Courses, Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences Courses
		Principles of modern astronomy for nonscience majors, summarizing our present knowledge about the Earth, moon, planets, Sun, and the origin of life.
		APAS 1110 and 1120 may be taken in either order.
		Principles of modern astronomy for nonscience majors, summarizing our present knowledge about the Sun, stars, neutron stars, fl holes, interstellar gas, galaxies, quasars, and the structure and origins of the universe.
	www.colorado.edu /sacs/catalog96-97/courses/APAS.html (2687 words)

	Environmental radiation text
		Please suggest texts appropriate for students taking an introductory college-level course on environmental radiation who are nonscience majors.
		The most recent book of which I am aware is Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial, and Military Sources, Fourth Edition, by Merril Eisenbud and Thomas Gesell, 1997, Academic Press Inc., 525 B. Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, ISBN 0-12-235154-1.
		Both of the above textbooks are more oriented to scientific types than nonscience majors, but I think a serious nonscience major can follow either one.
	www.hps.org /publicinformation/ate/q424.html (398 words)

	WSU Today - Faculty & Staff News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This was the question a group of science faculty members struggled with last year as they developed a new science course for nonscience majors.
		Initially, it is limited to 48 students and is open only to students in the Honors College.
		The committee was concerned that the course be interdisciplinary and “not leave the impression that biology is separate from physics is separate from geology and math,” said Sanchez Lanier.
	www.wsutoday.wsu.edu /completestory.asp?StoryID=2354 (493 words)

	Chemistry 116: Chemistry and Society Laboratory
		CHEM 116 is a one-credit introductory laboratory course for nonscience majors.
		It is the companion course to CHEM 115, the lecture course for nonscience majors.
		Note two important things about this process: 1) The Office of Access Services, not the individual instructor, makes recommendations about the type of accommodation that should be provided, and 2) Contact with that office should be made at the start of the semester and not just before the accommodation is needed.
	www.emich.edu /coe/program_update/int_sci_elem/syllabi/Chem116.html (960 words)

	UCSC - Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics / Course Descriptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Intended primarily for nonscience majors interested in a one-quarter survey of classical and modern astronomy.
		Properties of the solar system, the sun, solar system exploration, the physical nature of the earth and the other planets, comets and asteroids, origin of the solar system, possibility of life on other worlds, planet formation, and search for planets beyond the solar system.
		Esoteric concepts of modern cosmology presented plainly for nonscience majors.
	www.astro.ucsc.edu /courses/course_descr.html (1908 words)

	Cornell News: helping high school students read science
		Reporting at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science today (Feb. 21), Hayes and Loreen Wolfer emphasized that too many American students shun high school science for "easier" subjects, and they pass into adulthood as poorly educated, science illiterates with a vulnerability to pseudoscience.
		So Hayes proposes an experiment for large school districts that are planning to replace outdated, nonscience textbooks.
		Half the students the first year of the experiment, he suggests, would receive new, more difficult books with rarer words in more complex sentence structures, while the other half would continue to use the old, oversimplified books.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Feb00/AAAS.hayes.hrs.html (917 words)

	CHM 101 01 Projects
		that you recommend not be used in a chemistry course for nonscience students.
		To aid you in your search, you will find here a host of sites dedicated in one way or another, at one level or another, to chemical education.
		Please note that some of these sites, while dedicated to chemical science and/or chemical education, are clearly not suitable for a course in chemistry for nonscience students.
	www.chem.vt.edu /confchem/1999/b/snyder/projects.htm (1207 words)

	Term paper questions:
		Demarcation criteria - Summarize differing views of criteria for demarcating science from nonscience.
		Is it important to demarcate science from nonscience or pseudoscience in our society?
		Resources would include Moorhead and Kaplan's Mathematical challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution (1967), Dembski's recent No Free Lunch (2002), or sources cited by Dean Overman in A Case against Accident and Self-Organization.
	www.unm.edu /~hdelaney/Termpaper.htm (1716 words)

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