Proposing Faculty Member: Maryann Oake
Category: Fundamental Literacies
Component: Critical Thinking
Short Description:
R416 is designed to have learners use critical reasoning to discuss trends and issues in medical imaging technology. Students will evaluate past issues involving radiation and reflect on past and current events.
Today, harmful radiation and nuclear fallout is seen everywhere from the media to video games, to many of the books individuals read about dystopian societies. I envision the course being able to expand the students’ knowledge of radiation and for critical thinking to occur about the radiation that is surrounding them and the devastating effects that can occur if radiation is not handled appropriately. Ionizing radiation is used today for diagnostic imaging, but it is also used in a variety of other ways that the students may not even know about (factories, archeology, in the soil, etc.,). The main course content will come from the textbooks, The Radium and Girls and Midnight in Chernobyl.