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Atoms and Stars
IST 2420 and IST 1990
Winter 2006

Last updated: 1/25/06

The class meets on Wednesdays 6 - 9:40 PM in 309 Shapero Hall. The first class is Wednesday, January 11.

Web site contents:

• Course Documents
• Online Tools
• Other sites of interest
• Instructor and contact information
• Course Sections
• Locations
• Online Courses and Work
• Textbooks
• Brief Course Descriptions

Course Documents Find all handouts here.

• Syllabus for IST 2420, Atoms and Stars
• Syllabus for IST 1990, Science and Religion
  • Using Moodle
  • Extra files for IST 1990. See the Instructor for the password to view these files. Once you enter the password, you can either download these files, or print them.
    • Brooke.pdf
    • Durkheim.pdf
    • Johnson.pdf
    • Marx.pdf
    • Olson.pdf
• Questions for the Midterm
• Printing the class notes
  If you just download and print these notes, they will print one slide per page, which means a lot of paper. To print multiple slides per sheet of paper:
  • Method 1 (PowerPoint): Use File > Print. On the File Print dialogue, under "Print what" near the lower left, choose "Handouts". Then, in the "Handouts" section near the lower right, choose the number of slides per page that you want. Six slides per page usually works well
  • Method 2 (Both PowerPoint and pdf, but may only work with current printer drivers): Use File > Print. Click on "Properties" near the upper right, then on the "Features" tab, and select the number of "Pages per Sheet" that you want.
• Class 1, January 11
  • Notes (PowerPoint)
  • Notes (pdf)
• Class 2, January 18
  • Notes (PowerPoint)
  • Notes (pdf)
• Class 3, January 25
  • Notes (PowerPoint)
  • Notes (pdf)

Online Tools

• Online grade reports (will not work until you have David Bowen enable these and set a password for you)
  • Online Grade Report form for enabling and setting password

Other sites of interest

• Mars Express - water on Mars? (If there is water, there might be life. It would be primitive.)
• Retrograde Motion
• The Milky Way
• Big Bang analogies
• Catholic church on science (including evolution) and religion (11/4/05, from the New York Times)

Instructor and contact information

Instructor: David Bowen, home page
d.r.bowen@wayne.edu
Work: 313-577-1498 (has voicemail), FAX 313-577-8585
2311 A/AB (5700 Cass Avenue) / Wayne State University / Detroit, MI  48202
Home: 248-549-8518 (has voicemail)
4704 Elmhurst / Royal Oak, MI  48073
Ford (during Winter semester, Fridays and some Mondays): 313-390-2155 (has voicemail)
Cell (no voicemail, usually off): 248-224-7375
AIM Screen Name: WSU Web

Course Sections

Locations

Finding Shapero Hall can be difficult. Many WSU staff do not know where it is, and others think they know, but are wrong. Here are a description and a map:

• By Anthony Wayne Boulevard northbound, where it curves around to Palmer
• Near Law School, Education, and FAB
• Inside red square on map below

Getting around inside Shapero Hall:

• The classroom for this course is on 3F (Third floor, Front).
• Take elevator to 3F (not 3R)
• Or take stairs to third floor

Online Courses and Work