Course Schedule and Catalog

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, socialism and social science, and the counterculture in environmentalism, biotechnology and computing. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)