Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

HIST 233 - SCIENCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD

Long Title: HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Survery of the emergence and eventual dominance of the scientific world-view, particularly in Europe, in the modern period. Topics include: the institutionalization of science, Newtonian physics and its implications, Enlightenment faith in reason, the statistical world-view, psychology, public health, eugenics, and the atomic bomb.