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Spring 2018 | HSCI 3611 Section 001: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science (57308)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
EMS 5500 Section 003
HSCI 5611 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 151
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Mon,
Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 151
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Understanding the origins of our own culture of Modern Science in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Newton's ambiguous legacy; science as wonder and spectacle; automata and monsters; early theories of sex and gender; empire and scientific expeditions; reshaping the environment; inventing human sciences; Frankenstein and the limits of science and reason.
- Class Description:
- What do electric shocks, robotic ducks, hermaphrodite monsters, expeditions to the Pacific Islands, the writings of Isaac Newton, and the novel Frankenstein all have in common? They are all aspects of the pursuit of science in the Age of Enlightenment (roughly the eighteenth century). The rich variety of this list, however, raises questions. Were such phenomena born out of a unified cultural movement or did they emerge from distinct sources and concerns? How did science become central to Western claims to mastery of nature, society, and the self in this period? What was the relationship between scientific ideas and the objects and practices that embodied them? And did the Enlightenment, as shaped by science, promoted individual freedom or ensnared human beings in new regimes of social control? The course explores these questions by looking at topics such as optical experiments, the problem of generation, classifications of natural objects and beings, or discoveries in botany, geography, and anthropology. We will focus on three main themes: (1) the emergence of physical science in the aftermath of the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution; (2) the role of science in refashioning humans and societies according to new ideas about the natural order; and (3) scientific explorations and exploitations afforded by the new global and imperial world. The course begins with Newton's achievements and ends with the decades around 1800, the era of Revolution and Romanticism.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
- Workload:
- 50-80 Pages Reading Per Week
6-8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 6-8 pages of writing include only papers, not exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57308/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 November 2013
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