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FASC 701: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Credits: 
3

This course will enable students gain insights in the practice of science as a discipline including major scientific concepts as well as the history. The aim of the course is to help students to fit their research to relevant trends and directions for national development. Course content will cover topics such as the basis for the scientific method; conceptual frameworks; the philosophy of science; ethics in research; pure versus applied science debates; approaches to research; science for development and the merit of broader impact criteria.