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• HIST 100.01 Exploration, Science, and Empire 6 credits

  This course provides an introduction to the global history of exploration. We will examine the scientific and artistic aspects of expeditions, and consider how scientific knowledge–navigation, medicinal treatments, or the collection of scientific specimens–helped make exploration, and subsequently Western colonialism, possible. We will also explore how the visual and literary representations of exotic places shaped distant audiences’ understandings of empire and of the so-called races of the world. Art and science helped form the politics of Western nationalism and expansion; this course will explore some of the ways in which their legacy remains with us today.

  Held for new first year students

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IS, International Studies
  • Prerequisites:

    Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.

  • Tags: CL: 100 level EUST Transnational Supp HIST Modern

  • HIST  100.01 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
  • FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm

• IDSC 258 Consensus or Contentious? Controversies in Science Then and Now 2 credits

  Almost every global challenge confronting humankind requires some level of engagement with science and technology. However, finding solutions to our most pressing problems also requires an understanding of how science operates within its social, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. We will investigate topics such as biological and social concepts of race, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. Examining the role of science in society will help us understand issues related to the use of evidence, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. By wrestling with current and historic scientific controversies, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.

  • Offered: Fall 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: No Exploration
  • Tags: ACE Applied BIOL Elective HIST Environment and Health CL: 200 level

  • IDSC  258.00 Fall 2024

  • Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • WAnderson Hall 323 1:50pm-3:00pm