Examines value-laden issues involving physical science, in particular its moral and social implications, its relationships to such institutions as church and state, and the constraints on the scientist's religious, political, academic, and scholarly expression. Typically, the course focuses on developments in physics in American society, emphasizing their interconnections with democratic values, military concerns, and energy.

This course is taught almost every semester. It fulfills:

Core Area 2: Ideas, Cultural Traditions, and Values

Past Syllabi

• Spring 2001
• Fall 2001

Choices and Challenges Project
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Virgina Tech, Mail Code: 0227
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Phone: 540 231-6476 Fax: 540 231-7013
Email: choices@vt.edu