HIST 2822 Modern Science 3.0 Credits
This course explores the history of science to make sense of the modern world. Students study scientists, their practices, theories, and instruments to unveil their role in the production of economic, cultural, and political realities from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Students consider plants, atoms, bacteria, genes, or climate as crucial elements of human history; study botanical specimens gathered in herbaria as indispensable actors of imperial designs across the Americas; examine molecules and chemical compounds as part of social revolutions in Europe; and investigate high energy physics as central to the Cold War. The scope is global and it encompasses both the natural (physics, biology, chemistry) and the social (sociology, psychology, economy) sciences.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit