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Courses
Adam Sedgwick to his pupil Charles Darwin
"I cannot promise to teach you all geology; I can only fire your imaginations."
Thomas Huxley, Darwin's advocate, on teaching
"And my method had this great advantage; it involved the certainty that somebody would profit by my effort to teach properly. Whatever my hearers might do, I myself always learned something by lecturing. And to those who have experience of what a heart-breaking business teaching is–how much the can't-learns and won't-learns and don't-learns predominate over the do-learns–will understand the comfort of that reflection." (from Man's Place in Nature) --->But there's little joy in learning alone, and faculty members love to teach the students who want to be learn.
Another corny but true quote:
Ben Franklin
"Tell me, I will forget; Teach me, I will remember; Involve me, and I will learn." --> It's a big university, but I'll try!
Penn State courses: generally offered in Fall Semesters
Anth/Bio 460 - Human Genetics
(offered Fall 2008)
Anth/Bio 460H - Honors Human Genetics
(not offered in 2008)
IBIOS 598B - Genomics (team taught: see IBIOS listings for details) (offered Fall 2008)
Anth465H - Fifteen Great Papers in Biology (not offered in 2008-09)
Anth 470H - Our Place in Nature (not offered in 2008-09)
Anth 471H - Biology, Evolution, & Society (offered Fall 2008)
Non Penn State course:
Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics
This is a mini-course offered in various places & countries from time to time. It considers the amount, origin, and understanding of genetic variation associated with human disease and approaches to finding and characterizing that variation. Joe Terwilliger (http://linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu/index2.html) and sometimes with others (Brad Towne, Harald Goring so far). We've taught this in Helsinki, Madrid, and Maricaibo, Venezuela. Future offering is in the works for Barcelona. The next scheduled offering is in Helsinki, Finland in week of August 15. Contact Joe or me about details.
