History of Science (HIST SCI) 1 HIST SCI 133 — BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY, 1950 - TODAY HISTORY OF SCIENCE (HIST 3 credits. From medical advancements to environmental crises and global food SCI) shortages, the life sciences are implicated in some of the most pressing social issues of our time. This course explores events in the history of biology from the mid-twentieth century to today, and examines how HIST SCI/ENVIR ST/HISTORY 125 — GREEN SCREEN: ENVIRONMENTAL developments in this science have shaped and are shaped by society. In PERSPECTIVES THROUGH FILM the first unit, we investigate the origins of the institutions, technologies, 3 credits. and styles of practice that characterize contemporary biology, such From Teddy Roosevelt's 1909 African safari to the Hollywood blockbuster as the use of mice as "model organisms" for understanding human King Kong, from the world of Walt Disney to The March of the Penguins, diseases. The second unit examines biological controversies such as the cinema has been a powerful force in shaping public and scientific introduction of genetically modified plants into the food supply. The final understanding of nature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first unit asks how biological facts and theories have been and continue to be century. How can film shed light on changing environmental ideas and used as a source for understanding ourselves. Enroll Info: None beliefs in American thought, politics, and culture? And how can we come Requisites: None to see and appreciate contested issues of race, class, and gender in Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science nature on screen? This course will explore such questions as we come Level - Elementary to understand the role of film in helping to define the contours of past, L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S present, and future environmental visions in the United States, and their Repeatable for Credit: No impact on the real world struggles of people and wildlife throughout the Last Taught: Spring 2021 world. Enroll Info: None HIST SCI 150 — THE DIGITAL AGE Requisites: None 3 credits. Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary An introduction to the history of the computer from the 1940s to the L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S present day, major developments in computer science and technology Sustain - Sustainability in their historical contexts, and recent trends in computing and society. Repeatable for Credit: No We learn about machines, but emphasize the study of people: the Last Taught: Fall 2017 institutions, scientists, workers, and social movements that invented, facilitated, and transformed digital technology in the 20th and early 21st HIST SCI/HISTORY/MED HIST 132 — BEES, TREES, GERMS, AND century. Enroll Info: None GENES: A HISTORY OF BIOLOGY Requisites: None 3 credits. Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities How did today's biology emerge out of the diverse traditions of Level - Elementary agriculture and natural history (bees and trees), biomedicine and L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S molecular biology (germs and genes), which stretch back into the Repeatable for Credit: No eighteenth century? In this course, we examine classic texts and Last Taught: Fall 2020 "game-changers" in the history of biology, putting them into broader HIST SCI 160 — ENGINEERING INEQUALITY: TECHNOLOGY AND scientific and social contexts to see how these different ways of knowing INEQUITY THROUGHOUT HISTORY intertwined, competed, and yielded novel approaches to the study of life 3-4 credits. that still shape today's life sciences. Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Offers an introduction to the history of technology centered around the Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science relationship between technology and various forms of social inequality. Level - Elementary Addresses: 1) how gendered, racial, and class-based disparities have L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S shaped the history of technology; 2) how forms of engineered inequity Repeatable for Credit: No have intersected with state-building, colonial projects, environmental Last Taught: Fall 2020 degradation, and revolutionary programs; 3) how technology has been implicated in attempts to imagine a more just society. Introduces central themes and concepts in the histories of science, medicine, and especially technology. Examines case-studies that are transnational in scope and move chronologically from the 17th century to the present. Also gives significant attention to histories of technology that originated outside of the U.S. and Europe. Enroll Info: None Requisites: None Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No 2 History of Science (HIST SCI) HIST SCI/HISTORY 171 — HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN FILM HIST SCI 203 — SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A HISTORICAL 3-4 credits. OVERVIEW 3 credits. Considers the social and cultural history of 20th and early 21st century American medicine through the depiction of health care practitioners Major themes in the physical, biological and environmental sciences and health care systems in Hollywood movies. View films that featured from 1890 to the present, with attention to conceptual development, medicine, doctors, nurses, patients, and hospitals. Using these films interaction of science and society, philosophical issues, and personalities as primary sources, seek to place these representations into a broader in science. Enroll Info: None social and cultural context. Evaluate the extent to which popular Requisites: None understandings of medicine, health, and healing as portrayed in the films Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science corresponded to actual practices of medicine and medical research at the Level - Elementary time the films were first screened for mass audiences. Enroll Info: None L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Requisites: None Repeatable for Credit: No Course Designation: Breadth - Either Humanities or Social Science Last Taught: Fall 2014 Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S HIST SCI/ASTRON 206 — HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Spring 2019 The development of astronomical knowledge and cosmological HIST SCI 180 — FRESHMAN HONORS SEMINAR: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, views from the earliest times to the present, viewed in their social, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE philosophical, and technological contexts. Enroll Info: None 3 credits. Requisites: None Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Introduction to the history of science, technology and medicine through Level - Intermediate in-depth examination of a specific theme or topic. Enroll Info: Open to Fr L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S only or with cons inst Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: Declared in honors program Last Taught: Summer 2021 Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary HIST SCI/MED HIST 212 — BODIES, DISEASES, AND HEALERS: AN L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Honors - Honors Only Courses (H) 3 credits. Repeatable for Credit: No A survey of different conceptions of how the body as a site of sickness Last Taught: Fall 2016 has been understood from Antiquity to contemporary medicine. Includes HIST SCI 201 — THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT consideration of the origins and evolution of public health, the changing 3 credits. social role of healers, and the emergence of the modern "standardized" body in health and illness.. Enroll Info: Open to Freshmen. For honors Emergence of scientific method and scientific modes of thought out credit consent required in Hist Sci/Hist Med 284 or consent of instructor of ancient philosophical and religious traditions; the impact of ancient Requisites: None science on medieval Christendom; the origins and development of the Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Copernican-Newtonian world view. Enroll Info: Open to Fr. Not open to Level - Elementary stdts who have taken ILS 201 or HIST SCI/HISTORY 323, except by cons L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S inst Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Summer 2021 Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary HIST SCI/MED HIST 218 — HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S AMERICAN MEDICINE Repeatable for Credit: No 3 credits. Last Taught: Fall 2020 This undergraduate lecture course introduces students to the HIST SCI 202 — THE MAKING OF MODERN SCIENCE development of the modern American medical care system. Enroll Info: 3 credits. None Requisites: None Major trends and developments in the sciences from the 17th century to Course Designation: Breadth - Social Science the early 20th century. Emphasis on those with broad cultural and social Level - Elementary implications. Enroll Info: Not open to stdts who have had Hist of Sci 204. L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Open to Fr Repeatable for Credit: No Requisites: None Last Taught: Fall 2015 Course Designation: Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - Counts as Liberal Arts and Science credit in L&S Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 History of Science