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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. History, philosophy,sociology, politics, and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine. Emphasis on a broad range of perspectives. GE credit: SciEng or SocSci.-Carroll
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing or discussion-1hour. Prerequisite: course 1 or 20 or Anthropology 2. Anthropological approaches to scientific visualization techniques, informatics, simulations. Examination of different visualization techniques toward understanding the work involved in producing them, critical assessment of their power and limits, especially when visualizations are used socially to make claims. Offered in alternate years. (Same course as Anthropology 109.) GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.-II. Dumit
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing. Religion, magic, and science from the middle ages to the present. Contrast between modern scientific methodology and religious and magical thinking. (Same course as Religious Studies 120.) Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Div, Wrt.-Coudert
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: History 135A recommended. Evolution and demise of natural history as a discipline from Aristotle to Linnaeus. Considers ancient views of nature and its Renaissance rediscovery; the emergence of biology, botany, geology, and zoology; the history of taxonomy and classification. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 130A recommended. Development of modern biology from pre-Darwinian roots to the present. Considers emergence of modern biological specialities and consolidation of biological theory around evolutionary ideas. History of allied fields such as genetics, paleontology, embryology, ecology, systematics and molecular biology. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor. Students will explore the life and times of Charles Darwin and will trace the development of evolutionary thinking before and after the Origin of Species to appreciate its place in Victorian society and in the corpus of Darwin's thought. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.-Griesemer
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. An interdisciplinary approach to the relations between gender and science. Topics include the biological and cultural construction of sexual difference, the role of women as practitioners of science, and feminist approaches to science. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1. Cultural concepts of time; units and instruments of time measurement; historical differences in the social organization of time; and time measurement in twentieth-century science. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. History of communication technologies from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. Questions of technology, knowledge, power and culture. Particular attention to questions about information and truth. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: SocSci.
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