Topics include water quality, landslides, subsidence, waste disposal, and geological aspects of land-use planning. The course is an examination of changing ideas about the universe. Emphasis is placed upon the role of science as a social institution contributing to these changing beliefs. The course is a study of some of the major ideas conceived by western thinkers in attempting to comprehend and describe the natural world. The course is a study of the aims and methods of teaching the physical and life sciences in the secondary schools.
Special attention is given to teaching general laboratory procedures and techniques of teaching.
Each of the departments in the physical and life sciences participates in the program.