HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Global History of Science

This seminar explores the formation of modern science as a global phenomenon. We will trace the practices and discourses that helped to define both science (as a form of knowledge-making) and the sciences (as distinct disciplines) from the 18th-20th century.
Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Science, Medicine, and Environment
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Science, Medicine, and Environment
Fall 2026. Chen.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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