Course outline The Power of Science and Technology

Teachers Name: Dr. Cheung, Chin-wing (張展榮博士) You may also visit http://www.uic.edu.hk/~dennisc/ for some other Area: Mathematics information. Phone number: 3620626 Email: [email protected] Contents (may be adjusted) Office: E409 1. General Introduction of Science and Technology week 1 2. Lectures: Statistics Module week 2-4 Name: Miss Jingya Gao 3. Quiz week 5 Phone number: 3620630 4. Group presentation week 6-7 Email: [email protected] 5. Lectures: Computer Module week 8-10 Office: E409 6. Guest Lecture week 11 7. Group presentation week 12-13 Assessments (may be adjusted)  Mainly, in the course, you will see newspaper, articles, videos,  Class Participation (whole semester) 10% …  2 Group Project (released at week 3 and 9) 40%  All contents will be real life examples of application of science  Quiz (week 5) 10% or stories of some ex-ordinary scientific guys.  Examination 40% Objective: There is No need to memorize any specific knowledge. After this course, you will think science is important. It has influence Mainly, you will see two types of questions in the final exam: to the society and the whole world. Open-ended essay and reading comprehension Maybe, you can also improve you English and communication skills.

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New style of education  You will have freedom to choose what you are going to learn.  You will have to find information, organized and present what you have learnt in oral and written format.  This course should be full of activities (say group discussion, games, experiments) (Last year, I gave many worksheets.)

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