- Office: New Ingersoll, Room 123 NE
- Phone: (718) 951-5000 x6441
- Email: bbranco@brooklyn.cuny.edu
- Office Hours: Monday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., Tuesday, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Twitter: @bfbranco | Faculty Page
Instructional Technology Fellow: Alexis Carrozza, Doctoral Student in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Office: 2231 Boylan Hall
- Email: acarrozza@gradcenter.cuny.edu
- ePortfolio: @alexiscarrozza
- Office Hours: Monday, 12-2 p.m., Thursday, 12:30-3:30 p.m. – please email for appointment
- Youtube: What’s an ITF? (4:47 min)
MCHC 2001: Science Forward – Science and Technology in New York
Macaulay Honors College Seminar 3
This is a skills-based course that will focus on scientific thinking. The goal of this course is to have students develop their Science Sense.
Science Sense is …
- being able to distinguish science from non-science.
- the ability to recognize how people collect and process facts into knowledge.
- the ability to recognize how a collection of facts becomes knowledge
- being able to question and evaluate information that is presented as scientific
- being an informed consumer, evaluator, and practitioner of science
We will focus on the specific skills that allow one to have good Science Sense. These skills fall into broad categories: Number Sense, Data Sense, and Knowledge Sense.
This course also will focus on the confluence of Science, Technology and Mathematics (STEM disciplines) and issues of civic importance. We will examine contemporary issues such as plastic waster, urban biodiversity and climate change from a variety of viewpoints, use our own authentic data to inform an issue, and think about how data can guide civic action to solve problems.
