HIST174 Syllabus
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Study Questions
  Midterm (Topics 1 & 2)
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  Topic 6

Essay Reviews
  Assignment #1 - Short Essay
  Assignment #2 - Essay Review
  Example #1 by Student
  Example #2 by Student
  Example by Instructor




Instructor:
Dr. Stephen G. Brush
Distinguished University Professor of the History of Science
Department of History
  and
Institute for Physical Science & Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA

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Last modified:
December 18, 2003
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HIST 174
Introduction to the History of Science

Spring 2004 Course Syllabus Page 8


Lecture Notes for HIST 174

by Stephen G. Brush

Table of Contents


Part B. Revolution
    B1. Theories of Scientific Revolutions
    B2. Causes of The Scientific Revolution
    B3. The Second Scientific Revolution 1800-1950
    B4. Science and Culture in the 19th Century
    B5. Romanticism and Realism

Part C. Evolution
    C1. Before Darwin: Geology
    C2. Before Darwin: Life Science
    C3. Origin and Early Development of Darwin's Theory
    C4. Reception of The Origin of Species
    C5. Human Evolution
    C6. Evolution and Racism in the United States
    C7. Social Darwinism, Degeneration, and Eugenics
    C8. Genes and Chromosomes
    C9. The Synthetic Theory of Evolution
    C10. The Creation-Evolution Controversy

Part D. Sex, Mind and Behavior
    D1. 19th-Century Views of Sex Differences
    D2. Freud
    D3. American Anthropology
    D4. American Psychology
    D5. The IQ Test
    D6. Hormones and Sex
    D7. Women in Science

Part E. Energy
    E3. Cultural Movements in the late 19th Century
    E7. Scientific Revolutionaries of 1905

Part F. Atom
    F7. Did Science and Technology Win World War II?
    F8. Science and Politics after The Bomb


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