DINOSAURS

Catalog description

This is a freshman seminar.This course explores how scientific concepts relating to the earth and life on it (especially dinosaurs) have developed over the past several centuries. It considers both the processes by which these concepts developed as well as the nature and extent of the evidence used by scientists to support their ideas. Thus, the purpose of this course is to provide not only current information about the results of science but also an understanding of how the process of science works.