Class Minutes for 1/29/09 by Darren

Due Monday February 2, 2009 @ 12:00p.m.: 1-page summary of article from first chapter of textbook
Class began @ 9:38a.m.

• Sarah and Alex absent—all others present
• Desks arranged in a circle, lights were off, blinds were up
• Graded learning contracts passed back
• Minutes were read and passed
• Time amended, pathological science added
• New task for minute-taker: attendance

Class discussion: morality, pseudoscience, validity, ethics
Plagiarism*:
• Copying ideas or taking exact wording from published sources without using quotation marks and indicating where the words came from.
• Paraphrasing from sources without citation.
• Copying someone else’s work and submitting it as your own.
• Buying a paper or having someone else write it for you.
Where does exact science become pathological science?
• i.e.: peanut butter, cigarettes
Group activity: Discuss the thesis, supporting information, opposing information, definitions, unanswered questions, and a summary of an assigned article from first chapter of Science and Society.
• Thesis: a statement or theory declaring a premise that is to be maintained or proved
• Dialectical reasoning**: critical thinking about problems and evaluating conflicting viewpoints.
• Two (dia) propositions/ logistics (lectical)

Class ended @ 10:47a.m.

*Plagiarism definition borrowed from ESF Academic Integrity Handbook (2008).
**Dialectical reasoning definition borrowed from Saskatchewan Psychology Dept.