PLEASE LET YOUR GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS KNOW ABOUT THIS COURSE. THIS COURSE IS FUNDED BY A NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT TO DR. IOANNIS PAVLIDIS.<div class="gmail_quote"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span></b><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ETHICS IN SCIENCE</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Historical perspectives and current practices of ethics and social responsibility in science<br>Fall 2012: MW, 4-5.30 pm, Classroom: SEC 206 <br>-------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>Instructors: Ioanna Semendeferi (Science Ethics)/Ioannis Pavlidis (Physiology and Computing)<br>
E-Mail: </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a>isemendeferi@uh.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a>/ipavlidis@uh.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Collaborating Instructors: David Phillips (Philosophy)/Dov Liberman (Educational Evaluation)</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>Description<br>This course is of interest and value to a broad student demographic across schools and departments. It is particularly useful to Ph.D. students as well as to undergraduate students with pre-med orientation. The syllabus features a rare combination of </span><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> `hands-on' experiences coupled with historical and social perspectives. Two issues fundamental to modern science, publications and human/animal studies, are given special attention and constitute the practicum component of the course. Students may choose to focus on one or the other depending on their orientation and interests. </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Students who choose the scientific publication track are assigned to senior investigators who act as mentors. The students are engaged in supervised peer review training of actual manuscripts, under special agreements between the journal editors and the investigators. This is a unique opportunity not only to understand in practice how proper peer reviewing is done, but also to get to know first hand the ins and outs of the "publication game".</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Students who choose the human/animal studies track are assigned to labs in the University of Houston or the Medical Schools, where they participate under supervision in the administration of human or animal experiments and other relevant activities.</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Practical training is accompanied by theoretical instruction in class, debate sessions, and documentary films. The class is also linked to a track of seminars on grand issues of science, medicine, and society given by nationally prominent figures.</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This course initiative is supported by an institutional NSF Science Ethics award (<a href="http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/index.php</a>). </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">More information about the course's fall 2012 syllabus can be found at: <a href="http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Courses/Fall%202012/Ethics_In_Science.php" target="_blank">http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Courses/Fall%202012/Ethics_In_Science.php</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please address any further inquiries to </span></span><span><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a>ipavlidis@uh.edu</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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