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HSCI 1011 - Digital World [TS HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Essential knowledge and critical perspective to understand today's Digital World. The history and social impact of the digital revolution, including security, surveillance, "virtual reality," and the future of the Internet.
HSCI 1212 - Life on Earth: Origins, Evolution & Ecology [ENV HIS]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 1214W (inactive)
How have people explained where life came from and how it has developed over time? We examine controversies over life's origins, the Holocene extinction, human population growth, the Dust Bowl and soil conservation, DDT and falcon repatriation, and disease and responses to pandemics. Evolution, natural theology. Ecosystems.
HSCI 1585 - Mammoths, Minerals, Monoculture: History of Earth and Environmental Science [HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits)
This course investigates the many ways people across the globe have sought to understand the environment and the earth from antiquity to the present. We will study the context in which the modern earth and environmental sciences emerged, asking throughout the semester what knowledge traditions contributed to the development of the sciences we know today. We will investigate the historical perspectives that shaped three intersecting themes throughout the semester: the questions of geological time and of change in the study of the earth; human use of natural resources in industry and agriculture; and understandings of the earth and environment as a global system. We will examine secondary historical scholarship and primary sources from North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia in order to better understand the religious and philosophical stakes of earth and environmental science, the role of empire and state building in the development of geoscience, and the interrelationship of science and industry.
HSCI 1714 - Stone Tools to Steam Engines: Technology and History to 1750 [TS HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 3714 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3714 until 07-SEP-99, HSCI 3714
Technology is an enormous force in our society, and has become so important that in many ways it seems to have a life of its own. This course uses historical case studies to demonstrate that technology is not autonomous, but a human activity, and that people and societies made choices about the technologies they developed and used. It asks how technological differences between nations influenced their different courses of development, and why some societies seemed to advance while others did not. We ask how technological choices can bring about consequences greater than people expected, and how we might use this knowledge in making our own technological choices. In particular, we explore the historical background, development, and character of the most widespread technological systems the world has known, from prehistoric stone tool societies, through Egypt and the pyramids, ancient Greece and Rome, the explosion of Islam, and the dynamic and often violent technologies of medieval Europe.
HSCI 1715 - History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web [TS HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 3715 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3715 until 07-SEP-99, HSCI 3715 (starting 07-SEP-10)
This course explores the many technological systems that have come to span our globe, alongside the widespread persistence of traditional technologies. We start with the earliest glimmerings of modernity and industrialization, and move on in time to the building of global technological networks. How have people changed their worlds through technologies like steam engines and electronics? Is it a paradox that many traditional agricultural and household technologies have persisted? How have technologies of war remade the global landscape? We ask how business and government have affected technological entrepreneurs, from railroads to technologies of global finance. We end by considering the tension between technologies that threaten our global environment and technologies that offer us hopes of a new world.
HSCI 1814 - Revolutions in Science: The Babylonians to Newton [GP HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 3814 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3814 until 07-SEP-99, HSCI 3814
Development and changing nature of sciences in their cultural context. Babylonian/Greek science. Decline/transmission of Greek science. Scientific Revolution (1500-1700) from Copernicus to Newton.
HSCI 1815 - Making Modern Science: Atoms, Genes and Quanta [GP HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 3815 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3815 until 07-SEP-99, HSCI 3815
How scientists like Darwin and Einstein taught us to think about nature; everything from space, time and matter to rocks, plants, and animals.
HSCI 2333V - Honors Course: A Century of Science in Modern America [WI CIV HIS]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3333V (inactive, starting 20-JAN-15, was HSCI 3333 until 05-SEP-00), HSCI 3333W (inactive, starting 07-SEP-10)
Science and technology influence nearly every aspect of our daily lives as well as the communities in which we live, both locally and globally. How did science and technology become such ubiquitous and powerful aspects of American industry, government policy, public life, and international negotiation? What are the responsibilities of scientists and engineers who play a critical role in creating and maintaining these elements? How can the broader public position itself to provide encouragement, insight and critique of the research and applications of science and technology? This course is intended to examine these questions by exploring historical case studies that highlight ethical, political, and social issues that give meaning to, and in turn, are shaped by science and technology. Beginning with the role of scientists as professional experts in the Progressive era, we consider how ideals of scientific management impacted animal lives and workers = bodies. Ethical choices frame the application of expertise and require attention and specific decision-making. Using eugenics as an example, we will reflect upon the interplay between the often naive understanding of heredity and public policy and continue discussion into the application of contemporary genetic testing. Ethics are framed in social and political settings, and we will follow sometimes surprisingly comparable developments in Russia and the United States, with particular attention to large-scale engineering projects in the 1920s and 1930s and the space race in the 1950s and 1960s in order to understand how these reflected, or failed to reflect, risk and human life. This course meets the Historical Perspectives, Civic Life and Ethics, and Writing Intensive requirements as defined by the Council on Liberal Education. Along with Student Learning Outcomes, these requirements will help you continue to build critical tools for your work at the university as well as ways to evaluate and create knowledge in and bey
HSCI 3211 - Biology and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries [CIV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5211
Changing conceptions of life and aims and methods of biology; changing relationships between biology and the physical and social sciences; broader intellectual and cultural dimensions of developments in biology.
HSCI 3242 - Navigating a Darwinian World [HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 5242 until 07-SEP-99, HSCI 5242
In this course we grapple with the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution in the scientific community and beyond. We'll examine and engage the controversies that have surrounded this theory from its inception in the 19th century through its applications in the 21st. What made Darwin a Victorian celebrity, a religious scourge, an economic sage and a scientific hero? We'll look closely at the early intellectual influences on theory development; study the changing and dynamic relationship between science and religion; and critically analyze the application of Darwin's theory to questions of human nature and behavior.
HSCI 3244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment [ENV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5244
We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
HSCI 3246 - History of (Un)Natural Disasters [ENV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5246
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, epidemic disease, and technological failures? This course will examine large scale natural events in American and world history, the social, technological, and environmental conditions that underlie them, and their historical consequences. Human societies have long been embedded in physical landscapes where they are subject to specific environmental conditions and physical risks: eight thousand-year-old wall paintings in Turkey depict the eruption of Hasan Dag volcano over the city of Catal Huyuk, for example. But then and now, it takes a certain combination of social conditions and environmental events to create a natural disaster. In this course, we will use historical natural disasters to explore the interconnections between the structures and ideas of human society and environmental forces. Humans have not been simply the random victims of natural disasters; where and how they chose to live influenced the impact of any disastrous event. Examining these events in a historical context will help us see the social, technological, scientific, and environmental systems that have been constantly interacting, but which are normally taken for granted until they break down.
HSCI 3331 - Technology and American Culture [TS HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5331
American culture(s) and technology, pre-Columbian times to present. Artisanal, biological, chemical, communications, energy, environment, electronic, industrial, military, space and transportation technologies explained in terms of economic, social, political and scientific causes/effects.
HSCI 3332 - Science in the Shaping of America [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5332
Science played a central role in taking scattered imperial colonies in North America to world power in just four centuries. This course investigates people, policies, and knowledge-making in a culture whose diversity was a critical part of its expanding capacities. It begins by examining the differences in ways of knowing as well as shared knowledge between Native Americans and Europeans and concludes by discussing how a powerful nation's science and technology shaped international relations. Class, race, ethnicity, and gender provided for a range of perspectives that contributed to science alongside social and economic developments. Online assignments, films and images, along with primary and secondary source readings provide the basis for class discussion.
HSCI 3401 - Ethics in Science and Technology [CIV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5401
In addition to examining the idea of ethics itself, this course will examine the ethical questions embodied in specific historical events, technological systems, and scientific enterprises. Commonly, technology is assumed to be the best engineered solution for a particular goal and (good) science is supposed to be objective; however, this is never truly the case, values and moral choices underlie all of our systems for understanding and interacting with the world around us. These values and choices are almost always contentious. Through a series of historical case studies we will grapple with the big issues of right and wrong and the role of morality in a technological world. Our goal will be to learn to question and think critically about the things we create, the tools we use, and the ideology and practice of science.
HSCI 3421 - Engineering Ethics [CIV HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5421
Ethical issues in engineering research and engineers' public responsibility/practice, using historical cases; historical development of engineering as a vocation/profession; ethical implications of advanced engineering systems such as nuclear weaponry and networked communications.
HSCI 3611 - Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science [GP HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 5611
Understanding the origins of our own culture of Modern Science in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Newton's ambiguous legacy; science as wonder and spectacle; automata and monsters; early theories of sex and gender; empire and scientific expeditions; reshaping the environment; inventing human sciences; Frankenstein and the limits of science and reason.
HSCI 3714 - Stone Tools to Steam Engines: Technology and History to 1750 [TS HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 1714 (starting 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3714 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3714 until 07-SEP-99)
Technology is an enormous force in our society, and has become so important that in many ways it seems to have a life of its own. This course uses historical case studies to demonstrate that technology is not autonomous, but a human activity, and that people and societies made choices about the technologies they developed and used. It asks how technological differences between nations influenced their different courses of development, and why some societies seemed to advance while others did not. We ask how technological choices can bring about consequences greater than people expected, and how we might use this knowledge in making our own technological choices. In particular, we explore the historical background, development, and character of the most widespread technological systems the world has known, from prehistoric stone tool societies, through Egypt and the pyramids, ancient Greece and Rome, the explosion of Islam, and the dynamic and often violent technologies of medieval Europe.
HSCI 3715 - History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web [TS HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 1715 (starting 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3715 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3715 until 07-SEP-99)
This course explores the many technological systems that have come to span our globe, alongside the widespread persistence of traditional technologies. We start with the earliest glimmerings of modernity and industrialization, and move on in time to the building of global technological networks. How have people changed their worlds through technologies like steam engines and electronics? Is it a paradox that many traditional agricultural and household technologies have persisted? How have technologies of war remade the global landscape? We ask how business and government have affected technological entrepreneurs, from railroads to technologies of global finance. We end by considering the tension between technologies that threaten our global environment and technologies that offer us hopes of a new world.
HSCI 3814 - Revolutions in Science: The Babylonians to Newton [GP HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 1814 (starting 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3814 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3814 until 07-SEP-99)
Development and changing nature of sciences in their cultural context. Babylonian/Greek science. Decline/transmission of Greek science. Scientific Revolution (1500-1700) from Copernicus to Newton.
HSCI 3815 - Making Modern Science: Atoms, Genes and Quanta [GP HIS]
(3 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 1815 (starting 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3815 until 07-SEP-04, was HSCI 3815 until 07-SEP-99)
How scientists like Darwin and Einstein taught us to think about nature; everything from space, time and matter to rocks, plants, and animals.
HSCI 4060 - Special Topics in History of Technology (Topics course)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Topics specified in Class Schedule
HSCI 4121W - History of 20th-Century Physics [WI]
(3 cr; Prereq-calculus or permission from the instructor.; Student Option No Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was HSCI 4121 until 17-JAN-12, was PHYS 4121 until 07-SEP-99, PHYS 4121W
The transition from classical to modern physics (relativity, quantum) and its architects (from Planck and Einstein to Heisenberg and Schrodinger). The WWII bomb projects in the US and in Germany. Post-war developments (solid state, particle physics).
HSCI 4321 - History of Computing [TS HIS]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Fall Even, Spring Odd Year)
Equivalent courses: was CSCI 4921 until 07-SEP-99, CSCI 4921
Developments in the last 150 years; evolution of hardware and software; growth of computer and semiconductor industries and their relation to other business areas; changing relationships resulting from new data-gathering and analysis techniques; automation; social and ethical issues.
HSCI 4455 - Women, Gender, and Science [HIS DSJ]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GWSS 4102 until 18-JAN-11, was GWSS 4102 until 07-SEP-10, was GWSS 4102 until 02-SEP-08, was WOST 4102 until 06-SEP-05
Three intersecting themes analyzed from 1700s to the present: women in science, sexual and gendered concepts in modern sciences, and impact of science on conceptions of sexuality and gender in society.
HSCI 5211 - Biology and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries [CIV]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3211
Changing conceptions of life and aims and methods of biology; changing relationships between biology and the physical and social sciences; broader intellectual and cultural dimensions of developments in biology.
HSCI 5242 - Navigating a Darwinian World
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3242 (starting 07-SEP-99, was HSCI 5242 until 07-SEP-99)
In this course we grapple with the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution in the scientific community and beyond. We'll examine and engage the controversies that have surrounded this theory from its inception in the 19th century through its applications in the 21st. What made Darwin a Victorian celebrity, a religious scourge, an economic sage and a scientific hero? We'll look closely at the early intellectual influences on theory development; study the changing and dynamic relationship between science and religion; and critically analyze the application of Darwin's theory to questions of human nature and behavior.
HSCI 5244 - Nature's History: Science, Humans, and the Environment
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3244
We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
HSCI 5246 - History of (Un)Natural Disasters
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3246
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, wildfires, epidemic disease, and technological failures. This course will examine large scale natural events in American and world history, the social, technological, and environmental conditions that underlie them, and their historical consequences. Human societies have long been embedded in physical landscapes where they are subject to specific environmental conditions and physical risks: eight thousand-year-old wall paintings in Turkey depict the eruption of Hasan Dag volcano over the city of Catal Huyuk, for example. But then and now, it takes a certain combination of social conditions and environmental events to create a natural disaster. In this course, we will use historical natural disasters to explore the interconnections between the structures and ideas of human society and environmental forces. Humans have not been simply the random victims of natural disasters; where and how they chose to live influenced the impact of any disastrous event. Examining these events in a historical context will help us see the social, technological, scientific, and environmental systems that have been constantly interacting, but which are normally taken for granted until they break down.
HSCI 5331 - Technology and American Culture
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3331
Development of American technology in its cultural/intellectual context from 1790 to present. Transfer of technology to America. Establishment of an infrastructure promoting economic growth. Social response to technological developments.
HSCI 5332 - Science in the Shaping of America
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3332
The British colonies of North America were founded in precisely the same centuries as a revolution in European?s understanding of nature, transformed by the ideas of Galileo, Newton, and Linnaeus and by the technologies of the industrial revolution. Native Americans and African Americans had their own knowledge of nature, and their close understanding intersected with the increasingly scientific techniques brought with European settlers and enhanced the survival and intellectual capacities of the newcomers. By demonstrating the diversity of scientists in the ever changing demographics of an immigrant nation, the course argues that this diversity and the capacities of newcomers contributed to the national success in science and engineering. The engagement with science at points were used to try to limit access by women or African-Americans, but sciences was also used to discredit false theories through ever expanding emphasis on empiricism as well as attention to the social and economic consequences of innovation. The goal is to demonstrate those historical linkages in particular places and institutions as they influenced and reinforced specific scientific work, while, at the same time, being attentive to how scientific ideas and practices were shaped by American culture.
HSCI 5401 - Ethics in Science and Technology
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3401
Historical issues involving ethics in science. Ethical problems posed by modern science/technology, including nuclear energy, chemical industry, and information technologies.
HSCI 5421 - Engineering Ethics
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3421
Engineering ethics in historical context, including the rise of professional engineering societies; ethical problems in engineering research and engineers' public responsibility; ethical implications of advanced engineering systems such as the production of nuclear weapons; development of codes of ethics in engineering.
HSCI 5611 - Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: HSCI 3611
Understanding the origins of our own culture of Modern Science in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Newton's ambiguous legacy; science as wonder and spectacle; automata and monsters; early theories of sex and gender; empire and scientific expeditions; reshaping the environment; inventing human sciences; Frankenstein and the limits of science and reason.
HSCI 5993 - Directed Studies
(1 cr [max 15]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 15 credits)
Guided individual reading or study.
HSCI 5994 - Directed Research
(1 cr [max 15]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits)
TBD
HSCI 8112 - Historiography of Science, Technology, and Medicine
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Models of practice, different schools. Work of representative historians of science, technology, and medicine.
HSCI 8113 - Research Methods in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: HMED 8113
Introduction to sources, methods, and problems of research in history of science, technology, and medicine. Preparation of major research paper under faculty supervision.
HSCI 8124 - Foundations for Research in Ancient Science
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad HSci major or minor or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Development of natural/mathematical science in ancient Near East and Classical Greece.
HSCI 8125 - Foundations for Research in the Scientific Revolution
(3 cr; Prereq-Grad HSci major or minor or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Fall Even, Spring Odd Year)
Development of sciences/natural philosophy, 1500-1725.
HSCI 8131 - Industrial Revolutions
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Spring Even Year)
Development of industrial society, from 1700 through 1850. Emphasizes developments in mechanical/engineering sciences. Scientific, economic, political, and social dimensions of industrialization.
HSCI 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
HSCI 8421 - Social and Cultural Studies of Science
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Review of recent work; theoretical and methodological differences among practitioners; selected responses from historians and philosophers of science.
HSCI 8441 - Women in Science: Historical Perspectives
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Key literature dealing with patterns of participation in science and medicine since the 18th century. The ways in which modern science is perceived to be gendered, particularly in its practice and in ways that seem to influence theory and applications.
HSCI 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
HSCI 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
TBD
HSCI 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 10 cr total required (Plan A only); No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)
HSCI 8830 - Topics in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Topics course)
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 9 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Historical literature of topics common to history of science, technology, and medicine.
HSCI 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)
HSCI 8900 - Seminar: History of Early Physical Science
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of natural and mathematical science before 1800.
HSCI 8910 - Seminar: History of Modern Physical Sciences
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was SST 8200 until 28-MAY-02, was PHIL 8610 until 04-SEP-01, was SST 8200 until 04-SEP-01, was PHIL 8610 until 07-SEP-99
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of physical sciences since 1800.
HSCI 8920 - Seminar: History of Biological Sciences
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of natural, biological, and medical sciences from Aristotle to the present.
HSCI 8930 - Seminar: History of Technology
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of technology from ancient times to the present.
HSCI 8940 - Seminar: History of Science and Technology in the Americas
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology, emphasizing the United States and Canada.
HSCI 8950 - Seminar: Science and Technology in Cultural Settings
(3 cr; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology in or across specific geographic regions or particular cultures.
HSCI 8993 - Directed Studies
(1 cr [max 5]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 15 times)
TBD
HSCI 8994 - Directed Research
(1 cr [max 5]; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 15 credits; may be repeated 15 times)
TBD

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