Syllabus
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Course Description
How animals, plants and microbes sense, represent, process and output information
Course Objectives
- to help us understand the meaning of life
- to provoke future research
- to rejoin things that perhaps shouldn't have been separated (like
maths, chemistry, botany, sociology, anthropology....
!!)
- to place computing in a context
- perchance to dream
Prerequisites
an interest in how things work and what makes us tickRequired Textbook
none! save the trees and watch a movie instead :)
Other Reading
- "The Meaning of LIFF" by Graham Chapman et al
- "The Ascent of Man" by Jacob Bronowski
Suggested Grading if used for Credit
| Component | % |
| Team Project | 50 |
| Final Examination | 50 |
We learn a lot by doing. The scope and depth of this subject are so vast there is plenty of opportunity for students to make their own detailed investigations of a subtopic or a related topic of their choice and to present these to the class. Working in small teams as students has many educational benefits for them - in post-education life, humans wouldn't have got very far if they didn't work in teams and communicate with others.
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