Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HISTORY FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Freshman writing seminar will examine the relationship between science (conceived broadly) and religion in western history. Topics include the trial of Galileo, natural theology and design arguments, "scientific" linguistics and the science of race, animal-human hybrids, "stewardship of the earth" environmentalism, technologies of conception and Jewish law.