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