论文标题
教授文化天文学以跨学科框架的本科生
Teaching Cultural Astronomy to Undergraduates with an Interdisciplinary Frame
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论文摘要
文化天文学是将艺术，人文，社会和物理科学联系起来的跨学科。数据收集方法和理论来自许多学科，并与文化天文学中的方法和理论融合在一起。学生的负担是要进行文化天文学研究，必须在跨学科中广泛阅读。我开发了一系列课程，将文化天文学内容分为非洲，北美和太平洋等广阔地区。这些课程的结构是容纳大学各个地方的学生，但必须具有足够的数学和科学才能作为一般科学要求。该课程的大部分成绩都在最终项目中，其中包括演示文稿和书面文件。因此，该课程的目的是为学生奠定了必须是原始研究的最终项目的基础。学生很少选择收集自己的数据，而是重新分析了现有材料。学生学习了批判性思维，提出假设以及如何检验其假设以及如何理解文化天文学数据。
Cultural Astronomy is interdisciplinary connecting the arts, humanities, social & physical sciences. Data collection methods and theories are used from many disciplines and meld with methods and theories within cultural astronomy. The burden on the student is that to do cultural astronomy research it is necessary to be widely read within and across disciplines. I developed a series of courses that divided cultural astronomy content into broad regions such as Africa, North America, and the Pacific. The courses were structured to accommodate students from all parts of the university, but had to have enough mathematics and science to serve as a general science requirement. The majority of the grade for the course lay with the final project, which included a presentation and a written document. Thus, the course was designed to give the students a foundation for doing this final project that had to be original research. The students rarely opted to collect their own data, instead they reanalyzed existing materials. The students learned critical thinking, formulating hypotheses, and how to test their hypotheses, as well as how to understand cultural astronomy data.
