HPS280 History of Science

TUTORIALS

Tutorial Hours:	Wednesdays, 12-1:00 pm (in SF 1013 or Haultain 410) Wednesdays, 1-2:00 pm (in SF4102 or Haultain 401) Fridays, 12-1:00 pm (in Wallberg 219) Fridays, 1-2:00 pm (in Wallberg 342)
Tutorial Leaders:	Beverly Eadie, Nick Oweyssi, and Steve Walton
Tutorial sections meet every week as indicated on the schedule below. Students are encouraged to use the tutorials as an opportunity to bring up questions about the lectures. They will also be expected to read each week's assigned reading and be prepared to discuss it in class by composing a response to it. For 10 of the 12 weeks these will be simply three questions/observations about the reading, but two will be 2 short (2-page) "parper-ettes". Please see the section on composing a response. The tutorial constitutes an important part of the course, and the responses to the readings are intended to develop your thinking and writing skills. In your future working life you will often be asked to put down your ideas on paper and the ability to do this clearly, quickly, and briefly is a very valuable attribute of any engineer. There are no easy ways or magic tricks to acquire this skill; it only comes through sweat and practice. As an aid to the basic rules of grammar and style, I recommend the short (85 pages), useful, and enjoyable book by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 3rd edition (New York, 1979).

Note: All readings are available as a course reader at the UofT Bookstore in the Koffler Centre

Week	Reading
Jan. 4	"Space and Time" by S. Hawking.
Jan. 11	"The Arab Intermediary" by P. Benoit and F. Micheau.
Jan. 18	"The Rise of Early Modern Science" by T.E. Huff.
Jan 25	"A Movable Feast" by G.E. Christianson.
Feb. 1	"Lavoisier: A Scientific Revolution": by B. Bensaude-Vincent and "The Evolution of the Periodic System" by E.R. Scerri.
Feb. 8	No reading - discussion of films in tutorial.
Feb. 15	Reading Week
Feb. 22	"How James Watt Invented the Separate Condenser" by R. L. Hills.
Mar. 1	selections from Early Engineering Education at Toronto, 1851-1919 by C.R. Young.
Mar. 8	"War Should Mean Research" by D.J. Kevles.
Mar. 15	selections from Einstein Lived Here by A. Pais.
Mar. 22	"Los Alamos from Below" by R.P. Feynman.
Mar. 29	selections from Rosalind Franklin & DNA by A. Sayre.
Apr. 5	"Machines that Think" by M. Kaku.