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RS 102 - Science and the Sacred Syllabus

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I. INTRODUCTION

     Date             Reading Assignment          
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1     1/16     T     Introduction          
2     1/18     Th    Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science, chapter  1
3     1/23     T     Barbour, chapter 2          
4     1/25     Th    Barbour, chapter 3           

II. COMPARATIVE COSMOLOGY

     Date             Reading Assignment          
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5     1/30     T     PHYSICS: Barbour, chapter 4, 
                     Scientific American, Special Issue, chapter 1 & 2
6     2/1     Th     Berry and Swimme, Universe Story, chapters 1 & 2  
7     2/6     T      PHYSICS: Barbour, chapter 5
                     Scientific American, chapter 3 & 4 
8     2/8     Th     Berry and Swimme, chapter 3 & 4 
9     2/13    T      EVOLUTION: Barbour, chapter 6
                     Scientific American, chapter 5 & 6 
10     2/15   Th     Berry and Swimme, chapter 6 & 7          
11     2/20   T      HUMANS: Barbour, chapter 7
                     Scientific American, chapter 8-10 
12     2/22   Th     Berry and Swimme, chapter 8, 9, 12, 13, epilogue 
13     2/27   T      Genesis 1-9          
14     2/29   Th     Lao Tzu, Tao De Ching
                     Handout: "The Morality of Molecular Water"
15     3/5    T      Barbour, chapter 8          
16     3/7    Th     Barbour, chapter 9          

SPRING BREAK

III. CRITICAL THEORIES

     Date             Reading Assignment          
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17     3/19     T     Merchant, The Death of Nature, selections          
18     3/21     Th    Merchant, selections          
19     3/26     T     Harding anthology, The "Racial" Economy of Science 
                        (group projects) 
20     3/28     Th    Harding anthology     (group projects)     
21     4/2      T     Harding anthology     (group projects)     
21     4/4      Th    Passover/Good Friday     no class     

IV. FUTURES

     Date             Reading Assignment          
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22     4/9      T     Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto"          
23     4/11     Th    Haraway, "Situated Knowledges"          
24     4/16     T     Kelly, Out of Control, (group projects)
25     4/18     Th    Kelly,      (group projects)     
26     4/23     T     Kelly,      (group projects)     
27     4/25     Th    Closing and Evaluation          
                         
       5/10           Exam Period: 5/2-10          

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