Goals/Objectives/Learning Outcomes
General Cultural Formations Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate the ability to use inter/multi-disciplinary approaches
for understanding complex issues.
Specific CFB3333/PHYS3333 Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to detect pseudoscience in its many guises: paranormal phenomena,
free-energy devices, alternative medicine, intelligent design creationism, and many others.
- Students will learn to think critically and to question outlandish claims, hype, and outright BS.
- Students' writing will improve.
- Students will be able to distinguish credible sources of information
from nonsense; students will become intelligent consumers of information.