CRCRTH 640 CRIT. & CREATIVE THINKING IN SCIENCE & TECH.
This course explores issues about experiment, discovery, and application in science and technology, and the professional, social and moral issues to which these give rise. Implications for science teaching and citizen activism are discussed.
Theme: Environment, Science & Society
Critical thinking about diverse influences that shape environmental science and practices, giving particular attention to the tension between simple and complex accounts of environmental and social change. The course material, activities, and teaching/learning interactions provides students an opportunity to learn new science and interpretive approaches, a set of models for their own teaching and educational work, and a basis for discussions about practices and philosophies of education. The topics addressed in the activities include ideas of nature; conservation and colonialism; systems thinking; population growth and futures modeling; the tragedy of the commons; stability and complexity; environmental economics; local knowledge; commodities and environmental history; agriculture and biotechnology; and socio-environmental analysis.
Prerequisites: CRCRTH 601 & 602, or permission of instructor

CRCRTH 697A CONSTRUCTIVIST LISTENING
Constructivist listening is used in professional development workshops, classrooms, and other settings to help participants make better sense of their experience, think more clearly, take initiative, and collaborate fruitfully. It builds on a form of peer counseling in which two people, taking turns listening appreciatively to each other, re-evaluate experiences of being hurt and not helped, especially when they were young. The course introduces these practices and their application in educational, organizational, and social change, in tackling racial discrimination, gender inequalities, and injuries of class, and in moving one's current thinking and relationships in new directions.

EDC G 610 COMPUTERS, TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION
The various uses of computers and technology are examined in depth as particpants are introduced to a wide variety of software (secondary ed. focus) and the Internet, and explre the pedagogical issues raised by the use of computers for students, teachers, and school administrators. (Can subsitute as an a elective for CRCRTH670.)