Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

HIST 418 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & COLD WAR

Long Title: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & COLD WAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Research seminar will examine the mobilization of science and engineering in World War II and the ensuing confrontation between capitalism and communism. Topics include the Nuclear Age, science and diplomacy, the new American university, scientists and McCarthyism, the space race, social-ism and social science, and the counterculture in environmentalism, biotechnology and computing.