In contrast to the core competencies of our general education courses, the following specific goals of this course are to develop students' relevant competencies:
1. Democracy Literacy: This course will cultivate the democratic knowledge and attitudes necessary for democratic life through the dialogue between Galileo's two world systems, the community interaction and social contribution of scientists, and the cooperation and competition of scientists.
2. Ethical literacy: This course discusses scientific ethics from the scientific behavior of scientists and pseudoscience in the eyes of scientists, in order to cultivate students' sincere morals.
3. Scientific literacy: The main course design of this course is to build students' scientific literacy. In addition to the self-made slideshow, it also cooperates with the introduction of scientific classics and popular science books and related videos to guide students through group discussions and presentations. Deep scientific thinking, and then improve the ability of "explaining scientific phenomena", "evaluating and designing scientific inquiry", and "scientific argumentation and interpretation of data and evidence".
4. Media Literacy: This course explores the interaction between scientists and the media through the scientific behavior of scientists and pseudoscience in the eyes of scientists, and expects students to use scientific thinking to cite the factors that lead to the occurrence and results of events from various media source materials , changing and combining data to draw conclusions and critique media coverage.
5. Energy Literacy: This course discusses the motivation of scientists to actively seek new energy from the cold fusion event, and reminds students of the possible environmental impact of fossil energy through the discussion of the ozone hole.