Research and Professional Ethics in Water Resources and Environmental Sciences WRS/CE 8581 Schedule

Class Schedule 2007

Will be updated throughout the semester

Date Topic -

1/16      Introduction: Ethics overview and Responsible conduct of research

            What is ethics

            Responsible research – University Requirements, safety, animal use, human subjects, etc. 

1/23      Nova movie, “Do Scientists Cheat?”

1/30      Movie Discussion; Fraud, reporting misconduct, data manipulation

2/6        Plagiarism and Authorship

2/13      Peer review, confidentiality, conflicts of interest

            Guest speaker: Paul Bloom, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate

2/20      Mentorship, professional relationships, collaborative practice and research, management

2/27      Scientific recording-keeping, data ownership, intellectual property rights

3/6       Wrap-up, societal/social responsibility. Note – plan is for all students to meet in St. Paul for final session

Tentative Guest: Deb Swackhamer, School of Public Health, WRC, IonE

List of Readings:
Readings will be from the NAS publicaton, “On Being a Scientist”  Access is available online and I suggest you obtain a hardcopy or pdf.

Tentative Readings (check the class website Reading Schedule for updated readings)

Date     Pages from On Being a Scientist            (half pages indicate sections)           

1/23     pp. 1-8.5; 16.5-18.5

1/30     pp. 18.5-20.5

            Discussion cases - online

2/6       pp. 9.5 -14 (case on page 15)

            Discussion cases online

2/13     pp. 8.5-9.5

            See web for additional readings

2/20    No additional reading – see web site

            Discussion cases

2/27    pp. 4-6; 15-16.5

          Discussion cases

3/6     pp. 20.5-21

Discussion cases

Slide shows of some presentations available on the password protected slideshow page

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