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  • HISTSCI 138: Sex, Gender, and Evolution

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    Evolutionary theories of sex and gender and central controversies in human evolutionary biology from Darwin to the present. Topics include debates over the theory of sexual selection and the evolutionary basis of monogamy, sexual preference, physical attraction, rape, maternal instinct, and sex differences in cognition. Readings: primary texts and historical, philosophical, and feminist analyses.
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  • HISTSCI 139: The Postgenomic Moment

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    Joining "postgenomic" assessments of the genome projects, this seminar examines the history and contemporary practice of genomics from a multidisciplinary perspective. Topics include the role of technology, government funding, private industry, and race, gender, and nationality in the historical development of genomics, the ways in which genomic research challenges traditional conceptions of biology and science, and the implications of emerging trends such as direct-to-consumer genomics and whole-genome sequencing.
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  • HISTSCI 140: Disease and Society

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    A consideration of changing conceptions of disease during the past two centuries. We will discuss general intellectual trends as well as relevant cultural and institutional variables by focusing in good measure on case studies of particular ills, ranging from cholera to sickle cell anemia to anorexia and alcoholism.
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  • HISTSCI 151: Modern Pasts and Postmodern Futures

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    This course analyzes the modern age through three complementary perspectives. First, it offers a historical perspective focusing on landmark changes of the period, particularly focusing on science (Pasteur, Darwin, Charcot, Maxwell) and technology (steam engines, rail, telegraphy, photography). Second, it analyzes the work of important writers on modernity and civilization (focusing on Marx, Bergson, Freud). Third: it studies theorists of postmodernity (mainly Lyotard, Jameson, Habermas) who describe the benefits, dangers and/or alternatives to modernity.
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  • HISTSCI 153: History of Dietetics

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    A survey of the relationships between medical expertise and human eating habits from Antiquity to the present, giving special attention to the links between practical and moral concerns and between expert knowledge and common sense.
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  • HISTSCI 162: Science in the Enlightenment

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    What is the relationship between science and the period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment (ca. 1685-1815)? We will examine scientific theory, experimentation, and observation in the multiple contexts of social, philosophical, intellectual, and material cultures of the Enlightenment in Europe and North America. The course will explore the connections between Enlightenment science, technology, and engineering with the Industrial Revolution, Newtonianism, and the eventual reactions to Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality.
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  • HISTSCI 173: The Abnormal Mind

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    This course examines how the abnormal mind has been understood from the origins of psychiatry and psychoanalysis to the development of psychopharmaceuticals. We will study classification of diseases and methods of treatment, the professional formation of psychiatry, changing definitions of normality, the interplay between social and mental norms, and ways that deviant or minority social groups have been explained through references to the character of their minds.
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  • HISTSCI 175: Minds, Machines, and Computers

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    How has what we know or believe about machines affected what we know and believe about the human mind? How have developments in the human sciences shaped the development of information technology? Topics covered in this course include Charles' Babbage's analytical engine, the Turing Machine, cyberspace, distributed cognition, and the origins, development, and criticism of research in artificial intelligence.
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  • HISTSCI 178: Discovering the Mind

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    An introduction to the growth and development of scientific study of the mind since the nineteenth century and role of the mind sciences in shaping modern society, politics and culture. Topics include phrenology, the birth of experimental psychology, eugenics, personality testing, the SAT, behaviorism, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the use of mind science in politics, law, business, and education.
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  • HISTSCI 183: Democracy and Technology

    4.00 Credits
    Harvard University

    What is the relationship between technology and politics in global democracies? This course explores various forms of technology, its artifacts and experts in relation to government and political decision-making. Does technology "rule" or "run" society, or, should it? How do democratic societies balance the need for specialized technological expertise with rule by elected representatives? Topics will include: industrial revolutions, factory production and consumer society, technological utopias, the Cold War, state policy, colonial and post-colonial rule, and engineers' political visions.
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