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Advanced History of Science - HPSC3100
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Introduces students to key issues, methods and debates in the history of science by means of close examination of case studies of significant turning points in the development of Western science. Critical examination of primary sources will be stressed, along with the central historiographical debates concerning each case. Issues include: the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century; science and technology in the Enlightenment; life science and the sciences of the environment in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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