Description
This course is designed to give the teacher candidate in overview of the history of biology from medieval time through the advances of the 21st Century in order to delineate the antecedent relationship of early scientific thought to applied science and modern technology. The historical tenets of Aristotle, Hooke, Pasteur, Darwin and others will bridge the historic and contemporary philosophies of science with our present body of scientific knowlege. Twenty-first century concepts in genetic engineering, genetic screening and various modern day diseases will provide a basis to discuss contemporary controversies in bioethics and genetic counseling which will prepare the teacher candidate to integrate scientific, technological and social mores into the adolescent science curriculum. The contemporary topics to be theoretically investigated include: gene therapy, bioengineering; reproductive cloning; future research interests including HIV and Ebola vaccines, and the use of human stem cel