Agenda 1 for Wednesday September 5

Courses Wayne State University College of Lifelong Learning Interdisciplinary Studies Program Changing Life on Earth, GST 2020, 4 cr Section 981 (face-to-face Wednesdays 6:00 - 8:30 PM in 222 Cohn on campus) and Section 990 (online) Health Concepts and Strategies, GST 2010, 3 cr Section 981 (face-to-face, Wednesdays 8:40 - 10 PM in 222 Cohn on campus) and Section 990 (online) Health Concepts and Strategies for Elder Care, GST 1990 Section 981 (2 credits) and Section 982 (4 credits)	Instructor
	David R. Bowen 2311 A/AB Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Schedule (link not working yet)	Daytime tel: (313) 577-1498 Evening tel: (248) 549-8518 At Ford: 313-390-2155 FAX: (313) 577-8585 Home Page: http://www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/drbowen Email: d.r.bowen@wayne.edu

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Last updated: 9/4/01

Agenda 1
for Wednesday September 5
Health Concepts and Strategies, GST 2010
Changing Life on Earth, GST 2020
Attached Directed Studies, GST 1990

Announcements
1. All books are in at the Barnes and Noble campus bookstore. Telephone 313-577-2436. They say that if you call, you can pre-purchase books and have them ready for your pickup. Special hours for the first two weeks:
  • 9-4-01 : 8am-8pm
  • 9-5-01 : 8am-8pm
  • 9-6-01 : 8am-8pm
  • 9-7-01 : 8am-6pm
  • 9-8-01 : 10am-4pm
  • 9-10-01 : 9am-8pm
  • 9-11-01 : 9am-8pm
  • 9-12-01 : 9am-7pm
  • 9-13-01 : 9am-7pm
  • 9-14-01 : 9am-5pm
  • 9-15-01 : 11am-3pm
2. GST 2010 and 2020 have both normal or face-to-face (section 981)and online versions (section 990). No matter which section you are officially registered for, you can switch to the other on a week-by-week basis. If you are going to change permanently, you should do a drop/add with ISP Student Services.
  
  If you are in a face-to-face section and want to switch, or may want to switch, even for a week, or if you want to get the weekly emails that I will send to the online students, then you should follow the directions below for the online students.
3. Online students (and those who may want to try this):
  1. Fill out the course information form on the course web site, in the "Online tools" section
  2. If your name is not listed below, create your Profile in the computer conferencing system as follows: (a) go to the course web site, (b) follow the link (click on the link) to the computer conference, (c) give yourself a User Name (elsewhere called a Login name) and Password and type these into the login box, then click "OK," (d) fil out at least the essential profile information, using the User Name from step c as the Login name, and supplying your normal First name and Last name, and an email address, then scroll down to click on the "Create" button. Finally, email me to let me know that you have done this. You may want to use the online Users Guide, which you can access by going to the ISP web site and following the "Computer Conference" link. The following people do NOT have to do this, because they created a Profile in an earlier course:
    * Joanne Kerkmaz
    * David Lazarus
    * Paula Miller
    * Ebony Woods
  3. If you want a guided hands-on tour of the computer conferencing system, I will run two of these, both the same, so pick one. Both are in Room 113 Rackham (northeast corner of Warren and Woodward, just sourth across Farnsworth from the DIA).
    * Friday September 7, 6 - 7:30 PM
    * Friday September 14, 6 - 7:30 PM
  4. In the future, the course web site will have online grade reports. I also plan to upgrade this to show all assignments, when they are due, and where to find the information on them, as well as your grades for the assignments that you have turned in so far. While you can turn these off, if you want to have them available, you should complete the online course information form described below.
  5. There is an information form on the course web site, which online students, and those who may want to try this, should complete by Wednesday Spetember 12(next week). In particular, if you want to have online grade reports, there is a section called "Online grade" in which you check Yes or No for whether or not you want this feature, and if you check Yes, then you give yourself a password.
  6. Also, to test word processor compatibility, bynext week, Wednesday September 12, online students should go to the course web site, locate the link to the "Test file" (this link is on the course home page), click on the link to download it, save the file to your hard drive, open it in your word processor, add your name at the bottom, resave it adding your two initials to the beginning of the file name, and email the file with your name and the changed name back to me, at d.r.bowen@wayne.edu.
GST 2020, Changing Life on earth
1. Syllabus (handout)
2. Textbooks
3. Science and Religion computer conference (optional)
4. Preview
Science and these courses (handout)
GST 2010, Health Concepts and Strategies
1. Syllabus (handout)
2. Textbook
3. Me as an example
4. Preview
Directed Studies
1. Individual or Attached? (handout)
2. For an attached Directed Study, what is the topic? I suggest "Evolution and Religion," but other possible topics would be "Evolution Today," or "Historical Ideas About Evolution."
3. Here are possible books (HB means that I bought it HardBound, but there may be a paperback edition now. PB means that my copy is PaperBack, so that is definitely available.:
  1. Can a Darwinian be a Christian? Michael Ruse pub Cambridge University Press 2001 HB. Very detailed consideration of the range of Christian thinking and the range of efolutionary thinking, and the overlap, issue by issue. Issues include free will and original sin. The general conclusion is that for most (but not all) Darwinians, and for most (but not all) Christians, the answer is that a darwinian can indeed be a Christian (and the author is clearly both).
  2. The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner pub Vintage / Random House 1994 PB. Describing the direct observation of evolution in nature.
  3. Darwin's Ghost by Steve Jones pub Ballantine Books / Random House 1999 PB. A rewriting of On the Origin of Species, as the author believes that Darwin would have written it today.
  4. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. The words that started it all, still available. A fscsimile paperback edition is available.
  5. The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge WH Freeman 200 HB. the scientific case for evolution.
  6. Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands by Edward Larson Basic Books 2001 HB. How scientists and theologians have seen the Galapagos, before and after Darwin.
  7. Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould. A personal reconciliation of evolution and religion, by a renowned writer on biology.