Faculty Workshop to Develop New STS Courses, Clemson University, South Carolina, 2005

这项提案是为了支持一个学期的教师研讨会，以开发克莱姆森大学的新课程，以满足新的科学、技术和社会通识教育要求。该项目的结果将是20个新的课程建议，从2005年开始为克莱姆森大学的学生提供服务，所有学生都将被要求学习一门关于自然科学、技术和社会之间相互作用的课程。20名核心教师和感兴趣的其他教师将参加2004年秋季学期每隔一周举行的研讨会。克莱姆森大学以外的5位学者将被邀请参加研讨会并发表公开演讲。在其他研讨会上，参与者将讨论提供科学、技术和社会领域概述的阅读材料。拟议项目的智力价值来自于教师的学术互动，他们将教授STS课程，并严格定位于该领域。来自学校各院系的教师都将参加，因此研讨会本身将是一次令人兴奋的跨学科对话。这种互动将提高这些教师从2005年秋季开始为克莱姆森学生提供的STS课程的智力质量。作为在克莱姆森大学校园开发新课程的结果，这个项目最重要的更广泛的影响将通过参加由参与的教师开发的课程的学生来实现。这些新课程的学生将学会提出有根据的问题，并批判性地思考科学技术如何与社会相互作用。他们将成为更好的公民，能够更好地在他们的职业和生活中对科学技术的使用做出深思熟虑的选择。

This proposal is to support a semester-long faculty workshop to develop new courses at Clemson University to meet a new Science, Technology, and Society general education requirement. The outcome of the project will be 20 new course proposals, to serve Clemson students starting in 2005, all of whom will be required to take a course addressing interactions among the natural sciences, technology, and society. Twenty core faculty and interested additional faculty members will participate in a seminar that will meet every other week during fall semester 2004. Five scholars from outside Clemson University will be invited to meet with the seminar and also give public lectures. In other seminar meetings participants will discuss readings providing an overview of the field of Science, Technology, and Society. The intellectual merit of the proposed project comes from scholarly interaction of the faculty who will be teaching STS courses with a rigorous orientation to the field. Faculty from departments all across campus will participate, so the seminar itself will be an exciting interdisciplinary dialog. This interaction will improve the intellectual quality of the STS courses these faculty offer to Clemson students starting in the fall of 2005. As a result of developing new courses on the Clemson University campus, the most important broader impact of this project will come through the students who take the courses developed by the faculty who participate. The students in these new courses will learn to ask informed questions and think critically about how science and technology interact with society. They will be better citizens and better able to make thoughtful choices about the use of science and technology in their professions and their lives.