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time tliat senior officers conld be spared from their regular duties to 

 take the course and the time required to deliver to the participants a 

 useful amount of information service. 



Table 10. — Foreigrn Service Institute Course Syllabus : Science, Technology and 



Foreign Affairs^ 



(Idealized Syllabus) 



A. INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATIONS 



1. Seminar objectives. 



2. Principles and concepts relating to the effect of science and technology upon 

 national and foreign policy; background literature and reference sources. 



3. Scientific discoveries and technological innovations and their effect upon the 

 social, economic and political development of nations; historical approach. 



4. Science and technology as factors in the development of national policies in 

 the Western world, the Iron Curtain countries, and the emerging or developing 

 areas of the world; science and technology as related to U.S. national and foreign 

 policies. 



5. Foreign policy issues classified on the basis of their scientific and technical 

 inputs; policies for the advancement of science; science and technology as political 

 parameters; the "case" approach. • 



B. THE SCIENTIST AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD: DEFINITIONS 



Attitudes and characteristics of scientists and the scientific community ; science 

 and society; the scientist in politics; the scientist and national policy-making. 



C. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES 



1. Organization of U.S. science and technology; international operations and 

 interests of various departments, agencies and organizations within the Govern- 

 ment and outside of Government : 



a. Federal government — ^Presidential offices; congressional committees; 

 departmental in-house and extramural activities; independent agencies. 



b. Quasi-governmental organizations. 



c. Industry. 



d. Miscellaneous — professional societies; foundations; academic institutions. 



2. Science in the Department of State; activities and functions of SCI and 

 other bureaus and offices with scientific and/or technological interests. 



D. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL OBJECTIVES, 



RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROBLEMS (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON U.S. INTERESTS) 



1. Intergovernmental — international; regional. 



2. Nongovernmental scientific organizations. 



E. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS — U.S. PARTICIPATION 



1. IGY, Antarctica, Space, Atomic Energy, etc. 



2. Research areas and disciplines of worldwide interest and/or those neces- 

 sitating international cooperation to assure scientific progress; for example, 

 oceanography, hydrology, biology, meteorology, fall-out, air pollution, water 

 pollution (detergents), saline water conversion, arid zone projects, food, health, 

 medicine, pharmacology, etc. 



F. GROUP PROJECTS AND CASE STUDIES 



(Assigned to working groups of two to five seminar participants, constituting 

 position papers for presentation and discussion during the closing days of the 

 seminar) . 



1. UN Conference. 



2. US/USSR Space Cooperation. 



3. Scientific Choice. 



4. Exploitation of Mineral Resources Under the Seas. 



5. Deterioration of Peanut Crops Resulting in Growth of Carcinogenic Fungi 

 Dangerous to Man. 



6. UN Environmental Pollution Control. 



7. The Brain Drain. 



See footnote at end of table. 



