SCI 260The Science of Senses
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1984–85 to 1994–95 (before that, 1972–73 to 1978–79 used the number for Man and Vision); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Vision, hearing, smell, taste and other senses. A multidisciplinary view of some of the basic principles underlying these, with emphasis upon concepts which are common to all senses. Various aspects of the senses (e.g. social consequences of sensory impairment, esthetics, historical theories of sensory function) are discussed and demonstrated. Liberal Science Core Course
As printed in the 1985–86 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1985–86 to 1994–95 9 calendars
Vision, hearing, smell, taste and other senses. A multidisciplinary view of some of the basic principles underlying these, with emphasis upon concepts which are common to all senses. Various aspects of the senses (e.g. social consequences of sensory impairment, esthetics, historical theories of sensory function) are discussed and demonstrated.
Liberal Science Core Course
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1984–85 1 calendar
Titled The Science of Human Senses.
Sight, hearing, smelt and taste from biological, chemical and physical perspectives, Sensory overload and pollution. Cultural aspects of sensory perception.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1979–80 to 1983–84 calendars.
1972–73 to 1978–79 7 calendars
Another title: Man and Vision, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Elementary treatment of physical, physiological and psychological aspects of vision. Emphasis will be placed upon the visual environment and man. Selected phenomena in vision will also be covered. (Open to non-Optometry students only.)
No prerequisites
2 lectures per week, Fall term