Last Day to add classes: Feb 3
Last day to drop with no tuition liability: Feb 3
Last day to drop with full tuition liability: Feb 20
Reading Day: May 4
Exam period: May 5 - 13

Week 1 (Jan 21): Course Introduction.

Week 2 (Jan 26 - 28): Darwin's Origin
National Academy of Sciences: Evolution and the Nature of Science (289).
Darwin,The Origin of the Species: Introduction, Chapter 3.
Initial Position Essay due Jan 26.

Week 3 (Feb 2 - 4): Darwin, The Origin of the Species: Introduction, Chapters 4, 6 and 9.

Week 4 (Feb 9 - 11): Darwin, The Origin of the Species: Chapter 14;
The Descent of Man: Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2.
Summary, quotation, and paraphrase
Summary Assignment due Feb 11.

Week 5 (Feb 16 - 18): Darwin's Influence on Science
Richard Dawkins: "Explaining the Very Improbable" (301)
Peter Bowler: "The Evolutionary Synthesis" (319)
Steven Jay Gould: "[On Punctuated Equilibrium]" (344)
Niles Eldredge: "The Great Stasis Debate" (349)
First Research Assignment due Feb 16

Week 6 (Feb 23 - 25): Darwin's Influence on Science (continued)
Adam Kuper: "The Chosen Primate" (326)
Ian Tattersall "Out of Africa Again . . . and Again?" (335)
Steven Jay Gould: "The Human Difference" (342)

Week 7 (March 1 - 3): Patterns in Social Thought.
Richard Hofstedter "The Vogue of Spencer" (389)
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth" (396)
Martin Nowak, et al "The Arithmetics of Mutual Help" (403)
Edward O. Wilson: "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis" (409)
Stephen J Gould "Biological Potentiality vs Biological Determinism" (415)
First Essay due March 3

Week 8: On Break. No classes.

Week 9 (March 15 - 17): Patterns in Social Thought (continued)
Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh "The New Creationism" (420)
Nancy M Tanner "On Becoming Human" (427)
Evelleen Richards "Darwin and the Descent of Women" (436)

Week 10 (March 22 - 24): Philosophy and Ethics
Steven Pinker "How the Mind Works" (465)
Steve Jones "The Set Within the Skull" (477)
Daniel Dennett: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (489)
Michael Ruse: "Darwinian Epistemology" (493)
Michael Ruse and Edward O Wilson: "The Evolution of Ethics" (507)


Week 11 (March 29 - 31): Philosophy and Ethics (continued)
Frans de Waal: "Good Natured" (511)
Matt Ridley: "The Origins of Virtue" (517)
Evolution and Religion
Mainstream Religious Support (527)
Eugenie Scott: "Antievolution and Creationism in the US" (534)
Second Essay due March 31

Week 12 (April 5 - 7): Evolution and Religion (continued)
Institute for Creation Research: "Tenets of Creationism" (555)
Henry Morris: "Scientific Creationism" (557)
Thomas Wheeler: "Review of Morris" (564)
Richard Dawkins: "[The Argument from Personal Incredulity]" (577)
Second Research Assignment due April 7

Week 13 (April 12 - 14): Intelligent Design
Philip E Johnson: "Darwin on Trial" (581)
Eugenie Scott: "Review of Johnson" (686)
Michael Behe: "Darwin's Black Box" (592)
Robert Dorit: "Review of Behe" (601)
Michael Ruse: "Darwin's New Critics on Trial" (605)
Research Proposal due April 14

Week 14 (April 19 -21):
National Academy of Sciences "FAQ about Evolution and the Nature of Science" (617)
Synthesis and support
Citations and citation styles
Annotated Bibliography due April 21

Week 15 (April 26 - 28):
All revisions due by April 26.
Draft of Research Essay due April 28: Peer Review

Week 16 (May 3): Research Essays due