HIS
3463 History of Science: Origins to Newton. Credits: 3
An
introduction to the emergence of scientific thought from its mythopoeic
beginnings to the time of Newton. The course will focus on the interrelationships
among science, philosophy, and religion in Greece, Islam, and the latin
West. Special emphasis is given to Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes,
and Newton.
HIS
3464 History of Science: Renaissance to the present. Credits: 3
A
general survey of the major issues in physical and biological science from
the time of Galileo to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the impact
of scientific development of society, culture, and thought.
HIS
3465 The Scientific Revolution. Credits: 3
The
emergence of modern science from Copernicus to Newton exploring the notions
of empiricism, experiment, mechanism, materialism, and the historical concepts
of continuity, change, revolution, and progress.
HIS
3468 Special Topics in the History of Science. Credits: 3
Individual
episodes from the history of science dealing with the historical development
either of a particular science or of a specific theme. Examples include
History of Evolutionary Thought, and Scientific Exploration in an Age of
Discovery. May be repeated with change of content up to a maximum of 9
credits.
HIS
3477 The Two Cultures: Science vs. Humanities. Credits: 3
Multidisciplinary
view of science in the modern world, historians, scientists, philosophers,
and men of letters explore the historical tension (and apparent rift) between
science and the humanities. Modern concepts of fact, theory, value, creativity,
and change.
HIS
3481 Magic and the Occult in the Age of Reason. Credits: 3
Explores
the historical roots of astrology, alchemy, witchcraft, and hermeticism
in a cultural climate increasingly dominated by rationalism and science
(1450-1700).
HIS
3501 The History of Modern Biological thought. Credits: 3
This
course will examine selected areas of modern biological thought after 1735.
Topics include Linnaeus, Darwin, genetics, molecular biology, and sociobiology.
HIS
5461 Studies in Ancient and Medieval Science. Credits: 4
Topical
approach to origins of science from the second millennium B.C. to rebirth
of classical thought in the fifteenth century. Topics derive primarily
from Hellenic and Hellenistic Greece; focus on works of Aristotle, Galen,
Ptolemy, their principal contemporaries, and later Islamic and Latin followers.
HIS
5480 The Scientific Revolution. Credits: 4
Emergence
of modern science from Copernicus to Newton, exploring the notions of empiricism,
experiment, mechanism, materialism, and the historical concepts of continuity,
change, revolution, progress, as well as changing notions of evidence and
discourse. Emphasis on conceptual analysis of primary text material.
HIS
5484 Science and the Enlightenment. Credits: 4
Theoretical
developments in the physical and biological sciences between the late seventeenth
and late eighteenth centuries, including significance of social and cultural
dimensions of natural science.
HIS
5485 Special Studies in the History of Science. Credits: 3 (max: 6)
HIS
5487 Physical Science Since 1800.Credits: 4
Major
developments in physical science from beginning of nineteenth century to
post-World War II period. Institutional and social aspects of the organization
of scientific research.
HIS
5500 Life Science Since 1800. Credits: 4
Critical
problems of concern to biologists. Role of mechanistic/materialistic vs.
vitalistic and reductionistic vs. holistic approaches to development of
biology, as well as relationship of biology to physical and social sciences.
HIS
6480 Pre-Newtonian Sciences. Credits: 4
Physical
and life sciences before Newton; may cut across chronological, geographical,
and disciplinary boundaries.
HIS
6482 Modern Physical Science. Credits: 4 (max: 8)
Prereq:
HIS 5500 or permission of instructor
Issues
surrounding individual episodes from history of physics and/or chemistry
in post-Newtonian era.
HIS
6486 Seminar: Modern Biological Science. Credits: 4 (max: 8)
Prereq:
HIS 5500 or permission of instructor
Themes
and issues in history of modern biological thought. Persistent controversies
in evolutionary theory such as nature of selection, units of selection,
evolutionary rates, and relationship of macroevolution to microevolution.
Emphasis on close reading of On the Origin of the Species and other texts.
HIS
6488 Readings in the History of Science. Credits: 1-4 (max: 4)
Inquiry
into development of western scientific thought and institutions. Specific
historical topics having intellectual coherence and substantial historiography.
HIS
6489 Seminar: Social & Cultural Aspects of the History of Science.
Credits: 4
Inquiry
into social and cultural contexts of western science. Literature, cultural
values, religious beliefs, and educational institutions in western civilization.
Issue of gender in science.
History
of Technology
HIS
3470 History of Technology I. F. Credits: 3
The
development of technology and engineering from antiquity to approximately
1750 with emphasis on the relationship of this development to the growth
of western civilization.
HIS
3471 History of Technology II. S. Credits: 3
The
development of technology and engineering from approximately 1750 to WW
I with emphasis on the relationship of this development to the changing
patterns of life in western civilization.
History
of Medicine
HIS
3490 History of Modern Medicine. Credits: 3
Beginning
with primitive societies, the course will trace the development of ideas
of medical treatment, concepts of disease, and the growth of medical knowledge
over the centuries. Students will also have the opportunity to perform
research on an aspect of medical history of interest to them.
HIS
3491 Social History of American Medicine. Credits: 3
A
topical approach to the origins and special problems of the healing professions
in America. Emphasis is on social history rather than on technological
developments. Topics may vary each time the course is offered. Student
may repeat course when topics change.
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