Signature Course: Pseudoscience and Media

Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 1140
This one-hour documentary features interviews with staunch supporters, skeptical scientists, and other observers on both sides of the alternative medicine debate and questions whether hospitals that offer alternative therapies are inappropriately conveying a sense of legitimacy to these largely untested and scientifically unproven treatments.

Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 2392
This program scrutinizes the principles behind acupuncture, magnet therapy, crystal therapy, homeopathy, therapeutic touch, and reiki as respected practitioners demonstrate their specialties and make their case, and respected critics have their say.

Location: Media Collection (ask at Circulation Desk for assistance) | Call Number: DVD 2565
In 24 half-hour lessons delivered by Michael Starbird, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, you will explore the principles and methods that underlie the study of statistics. You will sharpen your understanding of basic statistical vocabulary and learn how to extract meaning from data, all while using no more than basic algebra.