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- HPSC-X 100 Human Perspectives on Science (3 cr.) Departmental flyers, available at registration time, will describe each section in detail. Selected issues in the history and philosophy of science. Individual sections will vary in content and major themes, but all will employ case studies to examine the philosophical, cultural, institutional, and social impact of science on our lives. May be repeated once for credit with different topic.
- HPSC-X 102 Revolutions in Science: Plato to NATO (3 cr.) An introduction to the formative steps in the scientific tradition. The course will survey in a chronological sequence aspects of the Aristotelian worldview, the Copernican revolution, the mechanical philosophy, the chemical and Darwinian revolutions, and the rise of twentieth-century science.
- HPSC-X 104 Science and Culture (3 cr.) Studies science as a human activity that both contributes and responds to cultural change. Presents and compares a mix of recent and historical cases, which bring out the complex relations between science and such aspects of culture as the arts, commerce, religion, sports, food, gender, race, and conceptions of human nature.
- HPSC-X 108 The Science of Sex and Race: Theories of Biological Differentiation, 1776 to the Present (3 cr.) A survey of the history of diversity in the U.S. from the point of view of the history of science, asking how biologists explained and debated the origins of racial or sexual differences and how the debates reflected the interplay between science and culture.
- HPSC-X 110 Scientists at Work: from Frankenstein to Einstein (3 cr.) Introduction to the study of science as a cultural phenomenon. Exploration of the individual and collective behavior of scientists in historical and contemporary contexts using materials from history, biography, sociology, journalism, fiction, drama, poetry, and film.
- HPSC-X 111 Ethical Issues in Biological and Medical Sciences (3 cr.) Investigation of ethical issues that arise in the biological and medical sciences, the impact of these issues on the behavior of scientists during the conduct of scientific research, and on the role of science in discussions about ethics and public policy. Introduction to major ethical theories and critical reasoning in biological and medical ethics.
- HPSC-X 123 Perspectives on Science: Social and Historical (3 cr.) Covers case studies from the history of science to examine the intellectual, cultural, and social impact of science from a variety of historical perspectives. Case studies are presented at an introductory level. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 6 credit hours.
- HPSC-X 125 Critical Medical Humanities: An Introduction (3 cr.) Offers an interdisciplinary and inter-professional approach to the psychological and social effects of illness and treatments as they emerge in patient-doctor interactions, with an integrated model of collaboration between health professionals and patients, emphasizing communication and empathy, and illuminating risk assessment, prevalent misconceptions and biases, and ethical considerations in decision making.
- HPSC-X 126 Perspectives on Science: Natural and Mathematical (3 cr.) Case studies illustrating, from a variety of perspectives, the logic and methods of the natural and mathematical sciences. Examples illustrating these methods are presented at an introductory level. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 6 credit hours.
- HPSC-X 138 Science and Religion (3 cr.) Examines the relationship between science and religion in terms of its areas of inquiry, social institutions, and historical phenomena. Topics will include Mesopotamian astronomy and astrology, science and the Church in the Middle Ages, Galileo and the Church, Christianity and the Newtonian worldview, the Darwinian Revolution and creationism, and the impact of contemporary physics on theology. Credit given for only one of HPSC-X 138 or HPSC-X 338.