Life Sciences in the 21st Century:
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- August 30th
- By reading this, you are doing your first on-line assignment: Check out these WWW pages!
Make sure you look at "Explore the net!" for interesting links...
- September 6th, Assigned by Dr. Simmons (Biology)
- To be handed in for credit as a "pop" quiz
- Due: Wednesday, September 20, 1995
- Select one article from one of three references available at the Newman Library
Reserve Desk They should be on reserve sometime on Monday, September 11.
These references will be listed under the course coordinator's name, D. E. Mullins:
Biology 2984, index number 9309.
The reference materials containing the articles are:
- Science: Volume 269: pages 324-360 (July 21, 1995) Featuring: "Big Questions
for a Small Planet: Frontiers in Biology."
- Science: Volume 264: pages 1862-1886 (June 24, 1994) Featuring: "Parasitology"
- Scientific American: Volume 273: pages 57-205 (September, 1995) Featuring:
"Key Technologies for the 21st Century."
- If you select an article dealing with a topic of a biological nature, please provide
a one page typewritten, brief summary of the article and include your thoughts on the
implications of this topic on a larger scale. For example, how will these new advances
affect such things as: welfare, social security, or the general sociological/psychological
well being of society?
- If you select an article which deals with a "non-biological" technology, please provide
a one page typewritten, brief summary of the article and include your thoughts on how this
technology might affect biological systems.
- If you have any questions regarding this assignment, please inquire at our next class
meeting, or contact either Dr. Mullins or
Dr. Simmons (See Instructor list
for more contact information).
- September 13th
- This assignment will be worth 10% of your grade for this course.
- Due: Wednesday, September 27, 1995
- Please provide a one page typewritten discussion describing a "typical work day" (8 AM to 5 PM)
ten years from now. Hopefully, it will be an employment situation that you think you would enjoy
and in which you would find a high degree of personal and professional fulfillment.
- If you have any questions regarding this assignment, please inquire at our next class
meeting, or contact Dr. Mullins.
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