BIO97 Contemporary Biosocial Problems in America, Fall 2006

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Session	Type	Title
1	Seminar	I. CRITICAL THINKING: A CASE STUDY IN ETHICS
2	Seminar	Introduction/Course Contract/Introduction to Ethics
3	Seminar	Contract/Introduction to Critical Reading and Ethics
4	Seminar	Personal Statements Analysis/Ethics Case Study
5	Seminar	Discussion of Physician Assisted Suicide
6	Seminar	Film: Mar Adentro
7	Seminar	Critical Analysis Exercise
8	Seminar	Discussion: Mar Adentro and PAS Essay 1 Due
9	Seminar	II. BIOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY (BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM)
10	Seminar	Discussion: Biology as Ideology
11	Seminar	Collective Outline Exercise
12	Seminar	Discussion: Biology as Ideology
13	Seminar	III. THE POLITICS OF WOMEN'S BIOLOGY
14	Seminar	Discussion: Why No Woman Mathematicians at Harvard?
15	Seminar	Science in the News (Student Presentations)
16	Seminar	Discussion: Sex Differences in Math Ability
17	Seminar	The Edge Debates
18	Seminar	Library Research Session
19	Seminar	Discussion: Sex and the Brain
20	Seminar	Discussion: T and Aggression
21	Seminar	Science in the News (Student Presentations)
22	Seminar	IV. BEHAVIORAL GENETICS
23	Seminar	Discussion: Crime and Violence
24	Seminar	Discussion: Genetic Influences in Criminal Convictions
25	Seminar	MAO Background/Mid-Term Course Evaluation
26	Seminar	Discussion: Role of Genotype in Violence
27	Seminar	Student Presentations on Proposed Final Research Paper Topics
28	Seminar	Science in the News
29	Seminar	V. EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
30	Seminar	Discussion: Concepts in Evolutional Psychology
31	Seminar	Discussion: The Biology of Human Rape
32	Seminar	Mock Trial Assignment/In-Class Meeting of Groups
33	Seminar	Discussion: Child Abuse and Stepparents
34	Seminar	Mock Trial: Can Evolutionary Psychology be Invoked as Mitigating Factor in a Rape Conviction?
35	Seminar	VI. IS THERE IS A BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR HOMOSEXUALITY?
36	Seminar	Discussion: Chapters 1 & 2 in a Natural History of Homosexuality
37	Seminar	Is There a Homosexual Brain?
38	Seminar	Introduction to LOD Scores
39	Seminar	Discussion: Science
40	Seminar	VII. SHOULD RACE BE USED IN MEDICAL DECISIONS
41	Seminar	Discussion: Ideas about Race
42	Seminar	Discussion: Race and Medicine
43	Seminar	Science in the News (Student Presentations)
44	Seminar	Discussion: Race and Medicine - Beyond BiDil
45	Seminar	Final Paper First Drafts Due
46	Seminar	Science and the Citizen/Wrap Up