HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

140.105 (H,S)

HISTORY OF MEDICINE: ANTIQUITY TO SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (3) Pomata
Limit 20 per section   Course provides an overview of the medical traditions of six ancient cultures; the development of Greek and Islamic traditions in Europe; and the reform and displacement of the Classical traditions during the Scientific Revolution. Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Lec.

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02

03

MT 10

W 10

W 10

W 10

140.111 (H,S)

FRESHMEN SEMINAR: ON THE ROAD (3) Leslie     Limit 15    Freshmen only A study of classic, and some not so classic, accounts of America in the rear view mirror, including novels, films, travel literature, and photography.  Start packing for your spring break road trip.  Caution: Heavy Reading Area Ahead

Sec. 01

W T 3-5:30pm

MONUMENTS AND MEMORY (3) Leslie     Limit 60   Why do some places, whether manmade or natural, capture and hold our imagination? Why, and how, do we commemorate particular sites? This course will explore the construction or discovery, and the enduring signficance, of selected monuments in the West, beginning with the Great Pyramid and ending with the World Trade Center. We will consider national memorials (the United States Marine Corps Memorial and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial), national parks (Yosemite and Yellowstone), and other milestones (the Parthenon, St. Peter's, the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge) by which the West has measured itself. We will study how they were made, interepreted and represented in art, literature, populare culture, and tourism.
Gilman Course in the Humanities
Cross-listed with Museum & Society Programs

Sec. 01

MTW 1

140.313 (H,S)

LIVES IN SCIENCE (3) Todes  Limit 15 The lives and scientific work of leading scientists from Galileo and Einstein, also including Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Pasteur, and Pavlov.

Lec.

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MT 11

W 11

W 11

W 11

140.321 (H,S)

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (3) Principe   Limit 20 per section  Course concerns developments in early modern Europe known as the Scientific Revolution. Topics include cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, natural history, and chemistry and issues involving magic, technology, humanism, and the social content of early modern science.          

Lec.

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02

TW MT 11

M W 11

M W 11

140.327 (H,S)

SCIENCE AND UTOPIA (3) Kargon   Limit 15   How science and technology were integrated into the social fabric of ideal communities in such works as Bellamy’s Looking Backward, Well’s Modern Utopia, Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984, etc.           

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

140.351 (H,S)
 (W)

SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF LIFE SCIENCES (3) Kingsland  Limit 12  Historical perspectives on current issues in biology.  Students will do a research paper.

Sec. 01

M 2-4:30

140.356 (H,S)
 (W)

THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN INDIA (3) Salguero   Limit 25    A social and cultural history of medicine in India, from the earliest archaeological evidence, to Buddhist and Ayurvedic traditions, to the modern Yoga movement.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

MTW 11

140.371 (H,S) (W)

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY (3) Shulman Limit 20 A survey of America's path to becoming the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, science and technology, diplomacy, and culture from colonial times to the present, with a special emphasis on the meanings
and consequences of energy use. Course added 3/23/07

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

140.377 (H,S)

WHEN THE WEST CAME EAST: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN EAST ASIA - 19TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY (3) Son Limit 15 Course explores introduction of modern conveniences in mid-19th century, first in Europe and America, then in East Asia. Focus is on science and technology in China, Korea and Japan during a period of rapid technological innovation. Our aim is to understand the link between material and cultural worlds and explore why East Asian countries began to fall behind in the race for technological superiority.Course added 4/11/07

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

140.411 (H,S)

SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR (2) Leslie

Sec. 01

TBA

280.156 (H,S)

THE INVENTION OF TROPICAL DISEASE (3) Goodyear   Limit 17 Freshmen only     A focus on the idea of Tropical Disease as a cultural legacy of European colonization in tropical latitudes. Cross-listed with Public Health Studies and Latin American Studies Course canceled 8/30/07

Sec. 01

WF 1-2:30

140.501

INDEPENDENT STUDY

140.601

HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY: METHODS, APPROACHES, PERSPECTIVES Fissell/Hanson  Limit 20  An introductory course at the graduate level to the interpretation of historical evidence; to the social, intellectual, and political analysis of historical data; and to contemporary methods in the history of science, medicine, and technology.

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

140.635

THE POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE Kingsland/Kargon     Limit 20  Examines transformation of science after World War II in comparative perspective.  Students will do a research project.

Sec. 01

F 10-12

140.641

DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM Kingsland  Limit 20  Reports by faculty, students, and invited speakers.

Sec. 01

Th 3-5

140.710

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION PrincipeLecture meets with 140.321.

Lec.

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MT TW 11

T 2-4

140.801

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Kargon

TBA

140.811

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Kingsland

TBA

140.831

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Leslie

TBA

140.835

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Principe

TBA

140.837

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Low

TBA

140.853

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Packard

TBA

140.871

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Marks

TBA

140.873

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Comfort

TBA

140.875

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Hanson

TBA

140.891

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Todes

TBA

140.893

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Fissell

TBA

140.895

DIRECTED READING AND DISSERTATION Mooney

TBA