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HIS 218
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Title: | History of Science & Tech:HI1 |
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Long Title: | History of Science and Technology:GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Explores the complex relationship between scientific and technological developments and western society and culture. Focuses on the way social and cultural norms can impact scientific or technological progress, and vice-versa, especially in the period since the Scientific Revolution. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Origin Notes: | CNCC |
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Course Notes: | New course entered 12/5/13 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Acquire information from many sources
2. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding
3. Recognize the impact of time and space on perspective
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence
5. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time
6. Recognize how the events covered in the course fit in historical context and how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective
7. Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information
8. Use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives
9. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation
10. Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator
11. Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly
12. Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts, and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.
13. Evaluate the social impact of significant scientific or technological changes
14. Analyze diverse forces that can lead to technological or scientific change
15. Describe the way the societal perceptions of science and technology have changed over time
16. Discuss the interaction between western civilization and other cultures in the context of scientific or technological developments and knowledge.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Scientific Foundations in Antiquity
II. Science, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages
III. Observation and Theory in the Renaissance
IV. The Scientific Revolution and New Modes of Thought
V. The Industrial Revolution: Steam and Society
VI. Challenging the Old Order: Dinosaurs, Darwin and Discoveries
VII. The “Great” Inventors and Reality
VIII. War as Technological Innovator
IX. Monkeys, Men and Robots: The Quest for Space
X. The Rise of the Digital World
XI. An Information Society?
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