NANOSCIENCES IN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES: CURRICULUM EMBEDDING AND PROGRAM’S INTEGRATION

Abstract

This communication discusses an approach for teaching about nanosciences from the perspective of the School of Sciences at St. Thomas University with a “Liberal Art” type of education, where also there is not a major in Physics neither room within the curriculum for a course on nanosciences. Besides that, this approach intends motivate students about technological entrepreneurship and discuss how applied sciences might be conducive to mathematical models that might be extended to other basic science fields. In this end, the phenomenon of superconductivity is discussed from different angles, and it is shown how it is linked to technological advances from medicine to computer science, and from them to astrophysics and cosmology.

Keywords

• Programas de estudios
• nanociencias
• integración disciplinaria
• ciencias básicas
• ciencias aplicadas
• superconductividad
• emprendimiento
• semilleros.