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265001 VU Facets of Science and Interactions with Society with the Focus on Sociology (2015W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 26 - Physik
Continuous assessment of course work

Sprache der Abhaltung: Deutsch

Die UNIVIS-online-Anmeldung für die Studierenden, die im EC registriert sind, beginnt am Mo 05.10.15 um 19:30 Uhr und endet am Mo 12.10.15 um 23.00 Uhr.

Für alle anderen Studierenden zeitlich parallel dazu Anmeldung per E-Mail unter ec-nwdenken@univie.ac.at; Aufnahme nach Maßgabe des vorhandenen Platzes.

Gast: emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Kutschera
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

Vorbesprechung: Mo 05.10.2015 um 15:30 Uhr im Christian-Doppler-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 3. Stk., 1090 Wien.

Teile der Ring-VO:
Heberle-Bors (Genetik) Mo 07.12. 16:00 -19:30 (mit Pause)
Dawid (Rolle der Mathematik) Mo 14.12. 16:00 - 18:10 (mit Pause)
Dellago (Thermodynamik) Mo14.12. 18:20 - 19:15, Di 15.12. 16:00 - 18:00 (mit Pause)
Aichelburg (Relativitätstheorie, Kosmologie) Di 15.12. 18:15 - 19:15, Mo 11.01. 16:00 -18:45 (mit Pause)
freiwilliges Exkursionsangebot 'Altersbestimmung mit C14-Methode' Mo 18.1. 16:00 - 18:00. Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator, Währinger Straße 17, Hoftrakt.

LV-Teil Wechselwirkungen mit der Gesellschaft mit sozialwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt
Ort: Seminarraum STS, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien), Stiege II, 6. Stock, C0602
VO-Teil Wechselwirkungen: Di 12.01., 19.01., 26.01. jeweils 16:00 bis 17:45
SE-Teil Wechselwitrkungen: Di 12.01., 19.01., 26.01. jeweils 18:00 bis 19:15

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Facets:
Role of mathematics in Science
- formally structuring our perceptions
- overcoming intuition
- driving force of theory development
Thermodynamics and time direction: How you obtain surprisingly reliable results for the properties of systems of unimaginal number of particles
Space, time, spacetime; two revolutions of thinking and methodical questions:
Relativity theory; Cosmology
Genetics: Where information about life is situated, how it is codified and the consequences
Additional topic for self study 'Age determination by radiocarbon method' supported by text in Moodle and an Excursion offer (VERA, Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator)

Interactions
VO Considering the history of sciences chronologically, emphasizing on modern times (from the 16th to the 20th century), with a special focus on social interactions
SE How do religious convictions of scientists have an influence on their scientific research?

Assessment and permitted materials

The EC is finished by finishing sucessfully the contained lecture courses one by one. This lecture course is finished by sucessfully finishing the training course part and passing an exam about the lecture course parts. An oral exam is held by one examiner in more detail about his own theme and in addition about the other contained themes and the supplementary topic making use of the questionnaire Fremdfragenliste (accessible on the moodle platform of the lecture course).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Facets:
Knowledge, understanding and survey about ways of thinking and methods in the scientific disciplines considered
Improvement of methodical und interdisciplinary competences, e.g.
Comprehension, refined judgment by analytical thinking and suitable verbal description

Interactions
VO to give an insight into the interactions between scientific
thinking and society
SE the participants shall learn to study such interactions, by means of a case study

Examination topics

Materials for the lecture parts and the supplementary theme on moodle

Reading list

Association in the course directory

MaP 3, LA-Ph71 fW

Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:41