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Science in a Changing World
engaging with scientific, technological, educational and social change

Courses and Content Areas

Students in the Science in a Changing World track take courses in a distribution of three key areas:

  • Science (S)
  • Analysis / Interpretation of Science in its Social Context (A)
  • Pedagogy & Civic Engagement (P)

Note: Courses offered by departments in the College of Science and Mathematics, with the exception of policy-oriented courses, automatically count for the Science area. They are included explicitly in the list only if they also count for another area.

Course are also offered in a variety of formats:

  • students can be brought into regular classes from a distance via skpe of phone (d)
  • fully online via Blackboard Learning System (o)
  • online as well as face2face or hybrid (h)

Check the courses in the following required areas:

  1. Foundation
  2. Electives
  3. Research & Engagement

(listing as of 08/22/11; please submit suggested additions and uptodate information to sicw@umb.edu)

I. Foundation courses

Masters students take four Foundation courses; Certificate students choose two of the four.

Next Offered Name S A P
  Either
CrCrTh 640, Environment, Science and Society: Critical Thinking
  x x
F 12 OR  
CrCrTh 645/Biol 545, Biology in Society: Critical Thinking
x x x
Sp 13 CrCrTh 650, Mathematics Thinking Skills x   x
Sp 12 (d) Pub Pol 749/CrCrTh 649, Scientific & Political Change   x x
F 11 CrCrTh 652, Children and Science x   x

II. Electives

Masters students take four electives; Certificate students take three.

Next Offered Name S A P
Consult WISER Graduate courses offered by departments in the College of Science and Mathematics (except policy-oriented courses count in 2ndcolumn). x x  
  CrCrTh 611, Seminar in Critical Thinking (Theme: Problem-based learning)     x
F 11(o), Sp 12 (o) CrCrTh 616, Dialogue Processes     x
F 11(o), Sp 12 (o), Su 12 CrCrTh 618, Creative Thinking, Collaboration & Organizational Change     x
Su 12, (o) CrCrTh 619/ PubPol 719, Biomedical Ethics   x  
  CrCrTh 640, Environment, Science and Society: Critical Thinking   x x
F 12 CrCrTh 645/Biol 545, Biology in Society: Critical Thinking x x x
F 11 (o) CrCrTh 670, Thinking, Learning and Computers   x x
F 11 (d, of) , Sp 12 (d) CrCrTh 688, Reflective Practice %     x
  EDCG 610, Computers, Technology & Education     x
  EDC G 625, Designing Instruction in Math & Science     x
  EDC G 660, Designing Secondary Curriculum: Science/ Math     x
  EDC G 661, Developing Understanding of Physical Science x   x
  EDC G 665, Methods in Secondary Science Instruction     x
  EEOS 605, Teaching Environmental Science and Technology x   x
  EEOS 6XX, Climate and Energy: Law, Policy, and Management (in development)   x  
  EEOS 716, Sci. & Tech. Info. & the Policy Process   x  
  English 600, Eco-criticsms   x  
  English 642–01, Victorian Literature (theme: Realism, Sensation, Science)   x  
F 11  English 663, The End of the World   x  
  Hist 605, History of the Atomic Bomb   x  
  Math 570, History of Mathematics for Secondary Teachers   x x
  MGT688, Global Warming (to be renamed: Business and Climate Change)   x  
  MGT6XX, Clean Energy: Technologies, Markets, and Policy (in development)   x  
  Nursng 701, Science as a Way of Knowing   x  
  Physic 570, Instrumentation Laboratory For Science Teachers x   x
  Physic 571, Integrated Mathematics and Physical Science for Teachers x   x
  Physic 572, Energy (special topics course, to be submitted to governance) x   x
Sp 12 Psych 550L, Cognitive Psychology x    
Sp 13 Pub Pol 753, Epidemiological Thinking and Population Health x x  
Sp 13 WoSt 597, Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology   x x

III. Research and Engagement

Masters students take all three.

Next Offered Name S A P
F 11 (d, of) CrCrTh 692, Processes of Research and Engagement     x
Sp 12 (d, of) CrCrTh 693, Action Research for Educational, Professional and Personal Change*     x
Sp 12 (d) CrCrTh 694, Synthesis of Theory and Practice (capstone project)      

If the course on Problem-Based Learning (currently CrCrTh 611) is offered with a focus on real-world SICW isues, this course could substitute for CrCrTh 693 or 694 provided the requirements for the capstone "synthesis" project are met. [A proposal to make Problem-Based Learning a course in its own right is under development.]

% Courses suitable for undertaking internships or supervised activities in schools, workplaces, communities, businesses, or the policy arena.


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