Scientific Humanities

Scientific Humanities

Course
en
English
12 h
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Source
  • From www.fun-mooc.fr
Conditions
  • Self-paced
  • Free Access
  • Free certificate
More info
  • 6 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on January 14, 2015
  • Ends on March 25, 2015

Course details

Syllabus

Week 1: How to patrol the borderline between science and politics?
Week 2: How to find one’s way in the scientific literature?
Week 3: How to handle technical innovations?
Week 4: How to deal with controversies?
Week 5: How to understand the shifting nature of the natural world?
Week 6: How to become a citizen in the public life of science and technology?

Prerequisite

The course is available in english and the assignments must be done in English.

Instructors

Professor at Sciences Po

Editor

Sciences Po is an institution of higher education and research in the humanities and social sciences that devotes 35% of its budget to research.
Founded in 1871, it has been training tomorrow's leaders for 140 years, in the private sector as well as in senior administration, politics and research.
Sciences Po is highly international: of its 12,000 students, 46% are international students from over 150 countries. Sciences Po invests in social responsibility and makes social and cultural diversity a key component of its identity. 27% of eligible students receive grants at Sciences Po. The figure was 6% in 2000.

Sciences Po contributes to public debate through its research and the variety of debates and conferences it organises each year.
For the past ten years or so, Sciences Po has been working to integrate digital tools into its teaching (shared workspaces, eCourses, Moodle, online Cartothèque, mapping of controversies, Forccast project, etc.) and has therefore naturally taken an interest in the format offered by MOOCs and the new possibilities offered in terms of educational innovation.

Platform

Coursera is a digital company offering massive open online course founded by computer teachers Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California. 

Coursera works with top universities and organizations to make some of their courses available online, and offers courses in many subjects, including: physics, engineering, humanities, medicine, biology, social sciences, mathematics, business, computer science, digital marketing, data science, and other subjects.

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