SCH-150-02 Scholars Research Seminar
Winter 2009

Important Notes Will Appear Here

  • Reading Assignments are on the Schedule page

    Feb 5 lab exercise on Turing Machines

    • Course Information

  • Course Overview and Policies 
  • Schedule
  • Homework

    • Text

    Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, 3rd edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

    On Reserve

    David Leavitt, The Man Who Knew Too Much, W. W. Norton, 2006.

    Mark Lytle, The Gentle Subversive

    Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

    Jack Copeland, The Essential Turing

    Homework Assignments

    Homework #Date Assigned Date Due Assignment
    4 3/17/07Final paper due, by 12:00 noon, at my office.
    13 3/10, 3/1215 mins. oral presentation
    12 2/24, 2/26Be prepared to comment on classmates' papers (specific assignment details will be coming)
    11 2/19/07 First submission of paper
    10 2/3/09Annotated Bibliography
    91/13/091/29/09More on what you know about your scientist so far
    81/13/091/27/09Read Chapter 7 of Craft
    71/13/091/20/09Read Chapters 12, 14 of Craft
    61/13/091/15/09Read Chapters 5, 6 of Craft
    51/8/071/22/07
  • Read one "season" of The Gentle Subversive by Mark Lytle,
    on reserve in library.
  • Be prepared to give a brief "elevator speech" on your scientist.
  • What do you know about your scientist so far?
    • 41/8/071/13/07 Do readings on Alan Turing (see Schedule page)
    31/6/071/15/07Comparing Carson and Hansen
    21/6/071/13/07Choosing a scientist
    11/6/071/8/07Read Chs. 1-3 of Craft

    Professor - Valerie Barr 

    208 Steinmetz Hall
    518-388-8361 
    Class: T Th 10:55 - 12:40, Olin 305
    Office Hours: MW 5:00 - 6:00, T 4:00 - 6:00, and by appointment. Note: If I am not in my office during office hours, check Olin 102 and Olin 110.
    barrv@union.edu