Week 1 (Jan 19 - 21): Course Introduction.
National Academy
of Sciences: "Evolution and the Nature of Science" (289).
Discussion Post 1
Week 2 (Jan 26 - 28): Darwin Origin Introduction,
Chapters 3 and 4.
Discussion Post 2
Preliminary Essay due Jan 28
Week 3 (Feb 2 - 4): Darwin Origin Chapters
6, 9, and 14.
Discussion Post 3
Week 4 (Feb 9 - 11): [Cancelled due to sbow]
Summary Assignment due Feb 11
Week 5 (Feb 16 - 18): Darwin's Influence on Science
Bowler "The Evolutionary Synthesis" (319)
Gould "[On Punctuated
Equilibrium]" (344)
Eldridge "The Great Stasis Debate" (349)
Discussion Post 4
Week 6 (Feb 23 - 25):
Ian
Tattersall: "Out of Africa Again . . . and Again?" (335)
Steven Jay
Gould: "The Human Difference" (342)
Hull "Cladistic Analysis" (361)
Padian and Chiape "[Cladistics in Action: The Origin of Birds and Their
Flight]" (363)
Discussion Post 5
Essay 1 Due Feb 25
Week 7 (March 2 - 4): Darwin's Influence
on Social Thought
Hofstedter "The Vogue of Spencer" (389)
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth" (396)
Nowak, et al "The Arithmetics of Mutual Help" (403)
Discussion Post 6
Developing Research questions
Library research
assignment due March 4
Week 8: Spring Break
Week 9 (March 16 - 18): Wilson "Sociobiology:
The New Synthesis" (409)
Gould "Biological Potentiality vs Biological Determinism" (415)
Nancy M Tanner "On Becoming Human" (427)
Evelleen Richards "Darwin and the Descent of Women" (436)
Discussion Post 7
Week 10 (March 23 - 25): Darwin's
Influence on Philosophy and Ethics
Pinker "How the Mind Works" (465)
Jones "The Set Within the Skull" (477)
Daniel Dennett: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (489)
Discussion Post 8
Research Proposal due March 25
Week 11 (March 30 - April 1): Michael Ruse: "Darwinian
Epistemology" (493)
Michael Ruse and Edward O Wilson: "The Evolution of Ethics" (507)
Frans de Waal: "Good Natured" (511)
Matt Ridley: "The Origins of Virtue" (517)
Discussion Post 9
Literature Review Essay due
April 1
Week 12 (April 6 - 8): Darwin
and Religion
Mainstream Religious Support (527)
Scott "Antievolution and Creationism in the US" (534)
Discussion Post 10
Annotated Bibliography due
April 8
Week 13 (April 13 - 15): Institute for Creation Research "Tenets
of Creationism" (555)
Henry Morris: "Scientific Creationism" (557)
Thomas Wheeler: "Review of Morris" (564)
Johnson "Darwin on Trial" (581)
Scott "Review of Johnson" (586)
Discussion Post 11
Week 14 (April 20 - 22): Behe "Darwin's Black Box" (592)
Dorit "Review of Behe" (601)
Peer review in
class April 20 & 22
All revisions due by April 23
Week 15 (April 27 - 29): Wrap
up
Kitzmiller
v. Dover, pp 62-89
Peer Review collection and course evaluation
Research papers due
April 29