SCED 4385 - Perspectives

Perspectives on Science and Mathematics explores a selection of topics and episodes in the history of science and mathematics. The course illustrates how knowledge has often emerged through many struggles, against obstinate resistance, and within cultural, religious, and social structures. Candidates are brought to understand that science is not merely a body of facts, theories, and techniques; science involves diverse processes by which it is continually generated and reformulated.

Prerequisites: SCED/ IGSC 1102 and admission to the secondary education minor for science and mathematics.