SCI 263Science and Society
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1985–86 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Selection of areas of science for development and commercial exploitation. Economic and social impact of science. Societal pressures on science. At present, the focus of this course is biotechnology. Liberal Science Core Course Course Descriptions Science
As printed in the 1990–91 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Successful completion of one year of Honours or General studies. Year One students will not be admitted to this course.
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1985–86 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.
1990–91 to 1994–95 3 calendars
Selection of areas of science for development and commercial exploitation. Economic and social impact of science. Societal pressures on science. At present, the focus of this course is biotechnology.
Liberal Science Core Course
Course Descriptions Science
Prereq: Successful completion of one year of Honours or General studies. Year One students will not be admitted to this course.
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1987–88 to 1989–90 3 calendars
Social and economic impacts of science. Analysis of biotechnology as an area of science expected to have substantial impacts on modern society. Aspects of this issue will be critically examined in this team-taught, multi-disciplinary course.
Liberal Science Core Course
Prereq: Successful completion of one year of Honours or General studies. Year One students will not be admitted to this course.
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1986–87 calendar.
1985–86 1 calendar
Titled Interactions of Science and Society.
Selection of areas of science for devel opment and commercial exploitation. Economic and social impact of science. Societal pressures on science. At present, the focus of this course is biotechnology.
Suggested Background: 1 or both of ECON 101, 102: 2 of BIOL 230, 239, 240, 241
Prereq: Successful completion of 1 year of Honours or General studies. Year 1 students will not be admitted to this course..
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit