HSCI1814
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HSCI 1814 - How Science Came to Be (3-4 Cr.) Global Perspectives, Historical Perspectives
Course description
Modern culture is a culture of science. Many of our key cognitive and social values are modeled after and subordinated to science. In this course we will examine the emergence of modern science—from antiquity through the end of the seventeenth century—to understand the nature of scientific knowledge and its contexts of production and validation. Our main focus will be on western science, or the way science developed in Europe, but we will also consider non-western influences like the culture of ancient Mesopotamia or medieval Islam.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
4
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Discussion
Lecture
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
00978
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Historical Perspectives, Global Perspectives
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Every Fall & Spring