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Science and the educated American : a core component of liberal education /

Title
Science and the educated American : a core component of liberal education / edited by Jerrold Meinwald and John G. Hildebrand.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79082160
  • Hildebrand, John G., 1942-
  • Meinwald, Jerrold, 1927-2018.
Description
viii, 262 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
[Occasional papers of the American Academy]
Uniform Title
Occasional paper (American academy of Arts and Sciences)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available online.
Contents
Science in the liberal arts curriculum / Don M. Randel -- Science as a liberal art / Frank H.T. Rhodes -- Science in the liberal arts and sciences / Eugene H. Levy -- Scientific literacy : a modest proposal / James Trefil and Robert M. Hazen -- Science education in the age of science / Chris Impey -- Physics for future presidents / Richard A. Muller -- Learning astronomy through writing / Martha P. Haynes -- Teaching science for understanding : focusing on who, what, and why / Sally G. Hoskins -- Molecules of life : a general education approach to the science of living systems / Brian N. Tse, Jon Clardy, and David R. Liu -- Science for all in a core curriculum : frontiers of science at Columbia University / Darcy B. Kelley -- Assessing scientific reasoning in a liberal learning curriculum / Diane Ebert-May, Elena Bray Speth, and Jennifer L. Momsen -- The conceptualization and measurement of civic scientific literacy for the twenty-first century / Jon D. Miller.
ISBN
  • 0877240884
  • 9780877240884
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library