Frontiers of Science

The graduates of columbia go on to positions of influence in society. It struck me as grossly irresponsible to graduate such students who had not been equipped with basic quantitative reasoning skills, what i call in the class, scientific habits of mind. This is not a political science cours or an economic course, or a psychology course or an engineering course. So we stick to the science of global wor so not ethics course, nor an ethics course. And my approach is i label every slide as a fact. They've gott their hands dirty doing calculations, understanding feedback loops. Certainly lots and lots of grafts they have to read and interpret accurately.