Graduate certificate History of Science
Bachelor's degree
In Princeton (USA)
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Bachelor's degree
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Princeton (USA)
The goal of the graduate Program in History of Science at Princeton is to enhance our students' enthusiasm for the subject while also training them for the joint professional responsibilities of teaching and research. Under the aegis of the Department of History, the Program in History of Science treats science as an intellectual, cultural, and social phenomenon. Recognizing that the study of the history and social aspects of science requires special training and techniques not normally included in the education of professional historians or other scholars, the program provides qualified students with that special training while at the same time preparing them to teach and work in general history.
Our approach to graduate training is also distinctive in the extent to which it requires formal qualifications in other areas of history. Graduate students in this program are simultaneously members of the Department of History; in fact, their degrees are awarded in history. Faculty members in the program are also members of the Department of History.
The maximum period of regular enrollment in the program (as in the Department of History at large) is five years, including time spent on research in absentia. Students have the opportunity to be enrolled for up to two additional years in Dissertation Completion Enrollment (DCE) status if additional time is necessary to complete the dissertation.
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COM 537 Imaginary Worlds: Early Modern Science Fiction (also
ENG 537
HOS 537
) Science fiction (SF) writing may seem a definitively modern phenomenon, but it has a rich and varied history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this course, we examine early modern SF not only a vehicle for popularizing the new philosophy of the "scientific revolution," but as a space for the interrogation of competing beliefs about the relationships between humankind and the cosmos, knowledge and belief, or public and private living. Through early modern SF, we explore the self-consciously literary and poetic ways in which early modern natural philosophers worked through their ideas. No "two cultures" here.
HIS 503 Research Ethics and the Dissertation Prospectus (also
HOS 503
HIS 519 Topics in the History of Sex and Gender (also
GSS 519
HOS 519
) A study of the historical connections linking sex and gender to major social, political, and economic transformations. Comparative approaches are taken either in time or by region, or both. Topics may include family, gender, and the economy; gender, religion, and political movements; gender and the state; and gender and cultural representation.
HIS 586 American Technological History (also
HOS 586
HOS 594 History of Medicine (also
HIS 594
HOS 595 Introduction to Historiography of Science (also
MOD 564
HIS 595
) Introduces beginning graduate students to the central problems and principal literature of the history of science from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Course is organized around several different methodological approaches, and readings include important works by anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers, as well as by historians of science.
HOS 596 History of the Life Sciences The precise topic of this course varies from year to year. Representative subjects include the con-struction and reception of Darwin's theory of evolution, the history of physiology, the science of Louis Pasteur and his contemporaries, and the history of genetics and molecular biology.
HOS 599 Special Topics in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (also
HIS 599
HUM 599 Interpretation (also
ENG 548
HOS 589
) The arts of interpretation across the disciplines.Graduate certificate History of Science