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Other courses like the one we are designing or that contain components that we like:

Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction, MIT Open Courseware. The site has tons of readings that look useful for us.
PHYS 220:Scientific Modelling at Macquarie University
Short annotation, URL
Another short annotation, another URL
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On-line repositories of course materials that contain units we might consider:

Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD), a Pathways component of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/
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Documents, readings, assignments:

Shiflet. Book is in the Math/CS lounge or ACL for reviewers to look at. Read the first chapter.
Wikipedia's page for Scientific Modelling
This one 's a bit silly but it has a nice summary
Dense and philosophical , but might be of interest to some students
Wikipedia on scientific visualization
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

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 Documents, readings, assignments:
-* Tutorial on Agent Based Modelling (potential reading?) (Nate has the actual pdf) [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1162708.1162712 ACM Digital Library]
-* [http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/education/phd/classpapers/Macy_Factors_2001.pdf Computational Sociology and Agent Based Modeling]
 * [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713747153~db=all Implications of Systems Dynamic Models and Control Theory for Environmental Approaches to the Prevention of Alcohol- and Other Drug Use-Related Problems]
 * [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800252.807580&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=21856894&CFTOKEN=34090781 Insect Population Simulation (S.D. vs Mathematical)]