1989 Articles

Theory and Practice of Science Science C1001-1002, Columbia College Syllabus

Pollack, Robert; Goldstein, Herbert; Gross, Jonathan L.

"Theory and Practice of Science" was developed at Columbia College, by Professors Herbert Goldstein, Jonathan L. Gross, and Robert E. Pollack, and first taught in 1981. The two-semester course introduced sufficient mathematics so that original science papers could be used as the basis for study, and presented case studies of scientific practice in the context of general education.

The following is a syllabus of the course as it was taught by Goldstein, Gross, Pollack, Blumberg and others, in the late 1980s. This may also be considered a table of contents for the textbook for the course, written by Goldstein, Gross, Pollack and Blumberg, entitled The Scientific Experience.