Subject: Summer Course in _The Origin_ From: "Robert Edgar" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ A CyberEd COURSE IN DARWIN'S _ORIGIN_ Taking comfort in long-standing traditions of science being an interplay of observations and expectations, and notwithstanding Louis Agassiz's appeal to "Study Nature, not books" -- hardly to be taken as a mutually exclusive dichotomy -- I do not feel out-of-place as a biologist in offering this summer, as a complement to a plenty of field courses in biology, a course in Darwin's _Origin_ -- in Cyberspace. I have taught an undergraduate honors course focussed on a critical analysis of the first edition of Darwin's _Origin_ for 20 years to classes of about 15 students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. This summer I will adapt that course to instruction over the Web and thus make it available to students anywhere in the world who are interested in Darwin. A description of this 3-credit undergraduate course, limited to 12 students and beginning on June 1, 1999 for 10 weeks, is available at https://ssl.umassd.edu/cybered/newstudents/catalog.html [Note: yes, that is 'https'; it is a secure site.] If your department has students that might be interested in experiencing Darwin this summer, I would appreciate your notice of this course to them. The course is designed for students -- not only biologists --with a curiosity about nature and a facility and affection for reading and writing. Further information can be obtained from the instructor: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------- Robert K. Edgar Professor of Biology University of Massachusetts Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA 02747 USA voice 508-999-8863 / fax 508-999-8196 email: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------