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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. It emphasizes the way social and cultural norms can impact scientific or technological progress, and vice-versa, especially in the period since the Scientific Revolution. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through perspectives such as gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. 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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General Notes: | Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110 |
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REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
2. De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
3. Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space In the History of Science and Technology.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the History of Science and Technology.
6. Analyze events in the History of Science and Technology in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
7. Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
8. Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
9. Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.
REQUIRED 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
VII. The “Great” inventors
VIII. War as technological innovator
IX. The quest for space
X. The rise of the digital world
XI. An Information Society?
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