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 20 - 22): Course Introduction.
National Academy of Sciences: Evolution and the Nature of Science (289).

Week 2 (Jan 27 - 29): Darwin's Origin
Darwin,The Origin of the Species: Introduction, Chapters 3, 4, and 6.
Initial Position Essay due Jan 27

Week 3 (Feb 3 - 5): Darwin, The Origin of the Species: Chapters 9 and 14.
The Descent of Man: Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2.

Week 4 (Feb 10 - 12): 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)
Summary, quotation, and paraphrase
Summary Assignment due Feb 10

Week 5 (Feb 17 - 19): 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)
First Research Assignment due Feb 17

Week 6 (Feb 24 - 26): Patterns in Social Thought.
Richard Hofstedter "The Vogue of Spencer" (389)
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth" (396)

Week 7 (March 2 - 4): Patterns in Social Thought (continued)
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 4

Week 8: On Break. No classes.

Week 9 (March 16 - 18):
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 23 - 25): 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 30 - April 1): 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 April 1

Week 12 (April 6 - 8): Evolution and Religion (continued)
Institute for Creation Research: "Tenets of Creationism" (555)
Henry Morris: "Scientific Creationism" (557)
Thomas Wheeler: "Review of Morris" (564)Evolution and Religion (continued)
Richard Dawkins: "[The Argument from Personal Incredulity]" (577)
Second Research Assignment due April 8

Week 13 (April 13 - 15):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 15

Week 14 (April 20 - 22): National Academy of Sciences "FAQ about Evolution and the Nature of Science" (617)
Synthesis and support
Citations and citation styles
Annotated Bibliography due April 22
All rvision due by April 22.

Week 15 (April 27 - 29)

Draft of Research Essay due April 27: Peer Review
Research Essay due April 29