Combining Two Cultures McMaster University's Arts and Science Programme

by Jenkins, Herb; Ferrier, Barbara; Ross, Michael T.; J. King, : Leslie; Greenspan, Louis; Bowerbank, Sylvia; Vorobej, Mark; Knight, Graham; Maguire, Jennifer Smith; Rangachari, P.K; Harris, Bill; Lovric, Miroslav; Viveros-Aguilera, Roman; Wilson, Jean; Huds

• ISBN13: 9780761829287
• ISBN10: 0761829288
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Research-intensive universities have long struggled to reconcile the imperative of specialized learning with the need for a broader, more liberal education. Combining Two Cultures provides a comprehensive account of a degree program at a distinguished Canadian university, McMaster, aimed at accomplishing this synthesis.

Table of Contents

Quest for meaning in undergraduate education	p. 3
Planning and approval of the arts and science programme	p. 17
The programme in practice	p. 45
Western civilization courses	p. 55
Writing and informal logic
Writing	p. 67
Informal logic : listening is the beginning of peace	p. 82
Inquiry courses
Introduction	p. 98
Third world development : a first-year inquiry course	p. 104
Media : an upper level inquiry course	p. 109
Discovery - the context of scientific research : an upper level inquiry course	p. 121
Mathematics and physics courses
The role of science and mathematics in the curriculum and links among the courses	p. 129
Calculus (arts and science mathematics course)	p. 132
Statistics : mathematical models of change, chance and error	p. 144
Physics	p. 151
Literature	p. 157
Technology and society	p. 177
The human face of the programme
Students	p. 195
Graduates : some personal histories	p. 202
Instructors	p. 242
What have we achieved?	p. 259
Future directions	p. 269
Reflections	p. 275
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