Ellen Moody's Teaching: Addendum to Syllabus for Fall 2007: 302 Advanced Writing on the Natural Sciences and Technology, 302N07, N10

Dr Ellen Moody

9/11: Short Talk 1: RFeynman, boy and young man: The Qualities that Make up the Good Scientist (SYJ, Parts 1 & 2, WDYC, Chapter 1): Crystal Lawrence/Cynthia Southard
9/11: Short talk 2: RFeynman's criticisms of counterproductive uses and abuses of authority, particularly at Los Alamos (i.e., his stories about counterproductive uses of secrecy), but you may include stories exemplifying this theme from elsewhere in the book thus far (so from SYJ, Parts 2 & 3, especially "Los Alamos from Below" and "Safecracker Meets Safecracker"): James Adams/Habibullah Tora
9/13: Short Talk 3: RFeynman's ideas on what is real scientific learning: what ought to go on in a classroom, be in a book &c (e.g.,"O Americano Outre Vez" and "Judging Books by Their Covers" in SYJ and relevant Letters in WDYC): Zhewar Rostam/_________________________________

9/18: Short Talk 4: RFeynman's Adventures in Areas Outside Physics: Biology, Art, Music and Anthropology ("A Map of the Cat", Always Trying to Escape", "But Is It Art?"; "O Americano Outra Vez!," "Bringing Culture to the Physicists", "Found Out in Paris", "Altered States" in SYJ, and "It's as Simple as One, Two, Three " and relevant "Letters" in WDYC): Brooks West/Linh Hoang
9/18: Short Talk 5: RFeynman's Investigations into the Conscious and Unconscious Mind and Antagonisms towards Modern Psychiatrists and Psychology ("Mee", "Always Trying to Escape", "Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!", "Altered States" from SYJ and "It's as Simple as One Two Three" from WDYC): Raul Guevara/Siddhi Joshi
9/20: Short Talk 6: Mr Feynman Goes to Washington: Why some NASA Shuttle officials are driven to delude themselves and mislead the public ("Mr Feynman Goes to Washington" and "Appendix F" in WDYC, pp. 113-227): Mary Raveia/Shevawn Shorter

9/25: Short Talk 7: A World of Pseudo- and Corrupt Science and the Value of Science (Feynman's "Cargo Cult Learning" and "The Value of Science," SYJ, pp. 338-46, WDYC, pp. 239-48): Jeffrey Haniflin/Mike Stroble
9/25: Short Talk 8: 17th & 18th Century Needs and Troubles at sea (Chapters 1-4 of Sobel's Longitude): Alain Castro/Marco Decato
9/27: Short Talk 9: Harrison's and others solution to the problem; the prize and Harrison's first encounters in London & sea voyage (Chs 5-8 of Sobel's Longitude): Samen Shabab/Seyyed Roghani
During these sessions the class watches altogether 60 minutes of Roberts, Sturridge, & Sobel's film, Longitude.

10/2: Short Talk 10: John Harrison's many inventions and the struggle with Nevil Maskelyne (Chs 9-11 of Sobel's Longitude): Jamie Brust/Erik Haldeman
10/4: Short Talk 11: The abuse of John Harrison, Cook & mass production, and the story of Rupert Gould (Chs 12-15 of Sobel's Longitude): Dan Boyd/_________________________________
During these sessions, the class may watch more of Roberts, Sturridge, & Sobel's film, Longitude.

10/18: Short talk 12: The Sun, Myth and Mercury ("Model Worlds," "Genesis," and "Mythology" from Sobel's Planets): Victor Padilla/Elizabeth Reichel
10/18: Short Talk 13: Neighbors? Venus, Earth and the Moon ("Beauty," "Geography," and "Lunacy" from Sobel's Planets): Kimberly Hall/Lisa (Elizabeth) Sinclair
10/23: Short Talk 14: The first known farther off (from the earth) planets: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ("Sci Fi," "Astrology," and "Music of the Spheres"): Joseph Randolph/Mariam Bamiza

10/25: Short Talk 15: The vast edges of the solar system, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond ("Night Air," "UFO," and "Coda" from Sobel's Planets): Ali Jarvandi/Lourdes Molina
During both sessions the class watches the film, The Constant Gardener, plus a couple of the features (e.g., deleted scenes).

If we didn't manage it last week, among other events, we finish watching The Constant Gardener, plus features.
11/6: Short Talk 16: Drug Companies, Health, and American Culture (online course materials, Marcia Angell, "The Body Hunters" and "Your Dangerous Drugstore"): Erik Bernier/Kevin Totten

11/8: Short Talk 17: LeCarre's The Constant Gardener: Describe the characters of the different narrators of the story and try to say how their telling of their part of the story shapes our experience of the novel (Sandy Woodrow, Justin Quayle, Ghita Pearson, Tom Donahue, Gloria Woodrow): ________________________/Mariam Bamiza
11/13: Short Talk 18: LeCarre's The Constant Gardener: The quest and landscapes: how is Africa a central character and how it is made to appear? with comparisons of how London, Italy, Germany, and Canada are made to appear and what they stand for (you can take material from both the book and film): James Adams /Kevin Luong

11/15: Short Talk 19: LeCarre's The Constant Gardener: The themes of betrayal, regret and loss, and people's experience of the business world in the novel: Derrick Inglut/Yiu Yung
11/20: Short Talk 20: The Problem of Having to Practice and Lack of Unbiased Review Boards (Complications, Part I, "Education of the Knife," "When Doctors Makes Mistakes," "When Good Doctors Go Bad" from Gawande's Complications): Havala Casarez/Jennifer Lykinds

11/27: Short Talk 21: What makes for a good doctor (Complications, Part I, "The Computer and the Hernia Factory" and (online materials), The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?" and "The Score: How childbirth went industrial"): Joseph Randolph/Thao Le
11/29: Short Talk 22: The money obstacle ("Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", "Sick and Twisted", "The Way We Age Now"): Raul Guevara/Stephanie Hrutkay
Over the two sessions, N07 and N10 watch Mike Nichols, Bosanquet and Thompson's film, Wit.

12/4: Short Talk 23: The real uncertainties of medicine (Gawande's Complications, from Part II, "The Pain Perplex","The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating", and from Part 3, "The Final Cut"): James White/Cynthia Southard
12/6: Short Talk 24: The Neglect of Vivian Bearing and who should decide what is done (from the film, Wit, and Gawande's chapter from Complications, Part 3, "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?"): ___________________________________/_________________________________

Section 302.N07: The final: Thurs, Dec 13th, 10:30 p.m. - 1:15 p.m, Thompson 107
Section 302.N10: The final: Tues, Dec 11th, 1:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m, East Building 134

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