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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

COURSE CONTENTS

• Formal and factual science.
• The scientific explanation.
• The role of deduction in science.
• Scientific analysis: scientific disciplines, paradigms, theories and programs of investigation.
• Testing hypothesis.
• Testing limits.
• Statistical testing.
• Comparing theories.
• The relation of epistemology to other disciplines: philosophy, social sciences, experimental sciences.
• Development of scientific thought.
• Social repercussions.
• Ethical aspects of ethic transformations.
• History of scientific development in Argentina with emphasis on chemistry.