HSCI3611
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HSCI 3611 - Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science (3 Cr.) Global Perspectives, Historical Perspectives
History of Science & Technology (11142)
TIOT - College of Science and Engineering
Course description
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.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
OPT - Student Option
Lecture
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:
02072
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Historical Perspectives, Global Perspectives
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Spring