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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. 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. (H) (WR)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. This course focuses upon what has been called "the emergence of the modern mind" from the perspective of three symbolic heroes of western science and culture. Beginning biographically, the course raises issues regarding notions of the Great Man, Great Books, Great Ideas, as well as theories of identity, genius, rationality, creativity, change, and the relations between science and the humanities, biography and history.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. In this course we focus on issues from the history and philosophy of science involving theories of sex and race in modern Western culture. Topics include: Classification, Taxonomy, Disease, Measurement, and Eugenics.
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1.00 Credits
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. (H, N) (WR)
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2.00 Credits
Credits: 3. The development of technology and engineering from approximately 1750 to WWI with emphasis on the relationship of this development to the changing patterns of life in western civilization. (H) (WR)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. Explores the historical roots of astrology, alchemy, witchcraft and hermeticism in a cultural climate increasingly dominated by rationalism and science (1450-1700). Draws on theory and methods of intellectual and cultural history, anthropology, sociology and literary theory. (H)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. History of the changing perception of the political and social significance of science since the discovery of nuclear fission.
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3.00 Credits
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. (H) (WR)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history. This course places the emergence of new infectious diseases in a historical and cultural context. The course emphasizes the history of well-documented infectious diseases such as leprosy, bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, tuberculosis, influenza, polio, venereal disease and AIDS, as well as the more recent Ebola viral-type outbreaks. (S)
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3. This course will examine selected areas of modern biological thought after 1800. Topics include Darwin, genetics, the Evolutionary Synthesis, molecular biology and sociobiology. (H) (WR)
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