Developing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Origins Course at a State University | NSTA

Developing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Origins Course at a State University

Journal of College Science Teaching—March/April 2009

A truly interdisciplinary course was successfully developed and taught that presented an overview of the historical sciences with an emphasis on the nature of scientific inquiry and its relationship to other ways of knowing. The course included contributions from faculty in physics, biology, geology, philosophy, and English.

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