Course Page for PBIO 8700, Fall 2007

 

Syllabus

 

Presentation schedule & revised web site address

 

Presentations:

Chapter 1 Bursting the Limits of Time. General discussion-Donovan

Chapter 2. A Growing Sense of Progress-Megan Van Etten

Chapter 3. On the Origins of Darwinism- Cara Gormally

Chapter 4. Enthroning Naturalism- Steve Hovick

Chapter 5. Ascent of Evolutionism- Luanna Prevost

Chapter 6. Missing Links- Cecile Dean

Chapter 7. Genetics Enters the Picture-Tyler Kartiznel

Chapter 8. Applied Human Evolution- Clint Oakley

Chapter 9. America’s Anti-Evolution Crusade- Scott Gevaert

Chapter 10. The Modern Synthesis- Ken Leonard

Chapter 11. Modern Culture Wars- Anna Sugiama

Chapter 12. Post-Modern Developments- Michael McKain

 

 

PDFs & Web Resources: (please provide feedback on usefulness and accuracy of these sites)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/program.html  watch the Intelligent Design on Trial program from PBS (provided by Megan)

 

http://www.becominghuman.org/, on Human evolution, provided by Megan

 

Etymologies of term genetic and evolve, provided by Ken Leonard

 

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

 

Georgia Public Broadcasting, from WGBH

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/

 

The TalkOrigins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html

 

Evolution and paleontology in the ancient world

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ancient.html

 

PDF: Making Evolution Relevant and Exciting to Biology Students from Evolution 61: 1261-1264

 

Resources on how to facilitate a good discussion.

Fredrick, P.  The Dreaded Discussion.

 

McKeachie WJ and M Svinicki. 2006. Chapter 5. Facilitating discussion: posing problems, listening, questioning.  Pgs. 35-55 in Teaching Tips. Houghton Mifflin, 12 edition.

 

Uno, GE. 2002. Chapter XI. Good discussions. Pgs. 110-114 in Handbook on Teaching Undergraduate Science Courses: A Survival Training Manual. Wadsworth Group.

 

"FACILITATING DISCUSSION: A BRIEF GUIDE" by Katherine K. Gottschalk, Director of Freshman Writing Seminars http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/taresources/leadisc.html

 

Indiana U Campus Instruction Consulting

http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/allabout/faq/leading.shtml

 

Leading Discussions: what every student (and lecturer) needs to know!

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/sociology/doingsoc/leaddiss.htm

 

Teaching and Learning at University of Washington. http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/TAHandbook/LeadingDiscussions.html