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History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Faculty


University Professor Emeritus
T.H. Levere, MA, D Phil, D Litt, FRSC (V)

Professors Emeriti
B.S. Hall, BA, Ph D (V)
P.M.H. Mazumdar, MB, M Tech, Ph D (V)
M.P. Winsor, M Phil, Ph D (V)

Professor and Acting Director
C. Fraser, MS, Ph D (V)

Professor and Graduate Coordinator
P. Thompson, MA, Ph D (V)

Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
M. Vicedo, BA, MA, Ph.D., Ph.D. (V)

Professors
C. Fraser, MS, Ph D (V)
J. Langins, M Eng, Ph D (V)
P. Thompson, MA, Ph D (V)
D. Walsh, BSc, BA, M Phil, Ph D, Ph D (V) Canada Research Chair

Associate Professors
B. Baigrie, MA, Ph D (V)
J. Berkovitz, BSc, MA, Ph D (V)
A. Chakravartty, BSc, MA, M Phil, Ph D (V)
N. Krementsov, Diploma Candidate of Sciences/History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (V)

Assistant Professors
L. Dacome, BA, M Phil, Ph D (V)
Y. Fehige, Diploma in Theology, M.A., Ph.D. (V)
M. Solovey, BA, MA, MA, Ph.D. (V)
C.-P. Yeang, BS, SM, Ph D, Sc D (V)

Introduction

The History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (HPST) is committed to the study of science and tech-nology (including mathematics and medicine) as historically significant in themselves, as integral components of the general development of knowledge, and as conceptually and theoretically rich domains for philosophical analysis. The programs of study offered by IHPST reflect the Institute’s commitment to interdisciplinarity. These programs require of their students a first-hand knowledge of scientific practice, but also require them to engage in the study of philosophy, history and the important place of science in both. HPS courses in Philosophy of Science engage with the structure of science, its methods, its special claims to the production of knowledge. HPS courses specifically in the History of Science and Technology seek to synthesise the study of science, its history and its place in history. Advanced students in the Major undertake a directed research project into the history or philosophy of science.

Students pursuing a program of study in the history and philosophy of science will find themselves ideally suited to any professional or academic context that requires an understanding of the relation between the sciences and the humanities. These may include, but are not restricted to, medicine, law, journalism, and education. Fur-thermore, the study of the history and philosophy of science furnishes students with a battery of analytic and critical tools with which to approach a wide range of interdisciplinary endeavours.

Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Professor M. Vicedo, Victoria College, Room 314 (416-978-1500)
Email: marga.vicedo@utoronto.ca

Enquiries:
Victoria College, Room 316 (416-978-5397)

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Programs


History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Programs
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Major (Arts program)

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(7.5 FCEs, including at least 2.0 FCEs at the 300+level, 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level)

First year:
1. HPS100H1
2. 1.0 100+level FCE in any natural or social science (including MAT and STA courses), excluding courses for non science students.

Higher years:
3. HPS200H1, HPS210H1, HPS211H1, HPS250H1, HPS201H1 or HPS202H1
4.  0.5 FCE from: PHL245H1, PHL246H1, HPS390H1 or HPS391H1
5.  1.0 100+level FCE in History
6.  1.0 200+level in Science, including 0.5 at the 300+level (These courses should be in the same area)
7.  0.5 FCE from HPS300+ level courses, JHE353H1, JHE355H1, PHL355H1, PHL356H1, PHL357H1
8.  0.5 FCE from Special Research Opportunities (HPS481H1, HPS482H1, HPS483H1, HPS484H1, HPS485H1) or Independent Studies course HPS495Y1

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Minor (Arts program)

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

(4 FCEs including at least one FCE at the 300+level)

1.  HPS100H1
2.  0.5 FCE from: HPS200H1, HPS201H1, HPS202H1, HPS210H1, HPS211H1, HPS250H1, SMC230Y1, SMC231Y1
3.  An additional 3.0 FCEs from: any HPS course, JHE353, JHE355H1, PHL356H1 PHL357H1

History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Courses


History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Courses
First Year Seminars

The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here.


HPS100H1    Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science[24L/12T]

An investigation of some pivotal periods in the history of science with an emphasis on the influences of philosophy on the scientists of the period, and the philosophical and social implications of the scientific knowledge, theory and methodology that emerged.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS200H1    Science and Values [24L/12T]

An introduction to issues at the interface of science and society. Including the reciprocal influence of science and social norms, the relation of science and religion, dissemination of scientific knowledge, science and policy. Issues may include: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons; Genetic Engineering; The Human Genome Project; Climate Change.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS201H1    Origins of Western Technology[24L/12T]

Technology and its place in our culture from Antiquity to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Relations between technology and science, religion, the arts, social institutions, and political beliefs.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS202H1    Technology in the Modern World[24L/12T]

A survey of technical change and its social implications from the Industrial Revolution to the present.

Recommended Preparation: HPS201H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS210H1    Scientific Revolutions I (formerly HPS200Y1)[24L/12T]

Case studies in the history of science from antiquity to 1800, including the revolutionary work of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Linnaeus, Lavoisier, and Herschel. The course is designed to be accessible to science students and non-scientists alike.

Exclusion: HPS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS211H1    Scientific Revolutions II (formerly HPS200Y1)[24L/12T]

Case studies in the history of science from 1800 to 2000, including Volta, Lyell, Darwin, Mendel, Einstein, Schrdinger, Watson, and Crick. The course is designed to be accessible to science students and non-scientists alike

Exclusion: HPS200Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS230H1    Quantifying the Renaissance [24L/24P]

This course traces the use of geometry and algebra in the evolution of physics and astronomy from around 1310 to 1690. It examines the conceptual foundations of geometry, algebra, analytic geometry and the differential calculus and their use in understanding the physical world. No prior mathematical knowledge is presupposed.

Exclusion: Any 100-level MAT course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

HPS240H1    Epistemological Issues in Medicine[24L]

An examination epistemological and logical aspects of medical science. Topics may include anecdote, bias, complexity, evidence, expertise, heuristics, phronesis, placebos, plausibility, probability, randomness, statistics and uncertainty.

Prerequisite: One HPS half course or PHL half course or BIO150Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS250H1    Introductory Philosophy of Science[24L/12T]

This course introduces and explores central issues in the philosophy of science, including scientific inference, method, and explanation. Topics may include underdetermination, realism and empiricism, and laws of nature.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS299Y1    Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here.

Breadth Requirement: None

HPS300H1    Topics in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology [TBA]

Topics vary year to year.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS306H1    Technology and War[24L/12T]

An examination of the tools of war in the Western world from the Middle Ages to World War II, including not only weapons but the means of transportation, communication, and organization used in violent conflict. The effects of war on the development of science and technology.

Exclusion: HPS417H1
Recommended Preparation: HPS201H1/HPS202H1 or any HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS307H1    History of Energy[24L/12T]

The history of human control of various sources of energy, including technical developments, scientific theories, and impact on culture and society. Recent debates on fossil fuel and nuclear power examined in historical context.

Recommended Preparation: HPS201H1/HPS202H1 or any HIS course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS308H1    Technology and Prosperity[24L/10T]

The systemic nature of modern technology suggests that it has intimate interactions with society, human values, ideologies, and the economy. We will attempt to examine these interactions in history in order to promote reflection on ways in which technology and its evolution could be managed for the benefit of humankind.

Recommended Preparation: any half course in HPS at the 200-level
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JPH311H1    History of Physics [24S]

Topics in the history of physics from antiquity to the 20th century, including Aristotelian physics, Galileo, Descartes, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, relativity, quantum physics, and particle physics. The development of theories in their intellectual and cultural contexts.

Prerequisite: At least one-half PHY course at university level
Exclusion: HPS311H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

HPS312H1    History of Chemistry[12S]

The emergence of the modern discipline of chemistry from 1785 to 1939. Seminar discussions focus on key papers of important Historical analysis of the interplay between theory and practice, and of the dynamics of scientific communities

Prerequisite: At least one CHM course at university level
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS313H1    Two Hundred Years of Electricity[24L]

A history of the science and technology of electricity in the 19th and 20th centuries in its social, economic, and cultural context.

Prerequisite: At least one-half CSC/PHY or Electrical Engineering (ECE) course
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS318H1    History of Medicine I[24L/12T]

A survey of medical theory and practice from Antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on medicines social, cultural and political setting.

Exclusion: HPS314Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS319H1    History of Medicine II[24L/12T]

A survey of medical theory and practice from the 17th century to the modern welfare state, with emphasis on medicines social, cultural and political setting.

Exclusion: HPS314Y1; HPS315H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS320H1    Medicine and Narrative[12L]

Personally and socially, we experience illness as a narrative. Narratives of health and illness have been constructed and interpreted from the early modern period to the present. The continuities and discontinuities that characterize the structure of these stories over time, and what narratives reveal about historical realities will be explored.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

HPS321H1    Understanding Engineering Practice: From Design to Entrepreneurship[24S]

This course seeks to understand the nature of engineering practice, which comprises complex social, intellectual, and technical actions at various stages from design to entrepreneurship.  Building upon the history and social studies of technology, philosophy of engineering, business history, and management science, we introduce ways to analyze such complex actions.

Prerequisite: Three courses with any combination of engineering, natural sciences, medical sciences, or commerce
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS322H1    Complexity, Order, and Emergence[TBA]

A survey of the history of and recent developments in the scientific study of complex systems and emergent order. There will be particular emphasis on the biological and cognitive sciences. Topics covered may include: mechanism and teleology in the history of science, 19th and 20th century emergentism, complex systems dynamics, order and adaptiveness, self-organisation in biology and congitive development.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS324H1    Natural Science and Social Issues[24L/12T]

Historical examination of the interactions of science (both as body of knowledge and as enterprise) with ideological, political and social issues. The impact of science; attacks on and critiques of scientific expertise as background to contemporary conflicts. Subjects may vary according to students interests.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS326H1    History of Science and Religion[12T/12S]

From its origins in the Renaissance, modern science has developed in the context of European religious beliefs and institutions. Although cases of conflict like Galileo or the Monkey Trial are famous, more common are cases of scientists like Newton or Faraday whose religious convictions were crucial to their scientific success.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS343H1    History of Pre-Electronic Computing[24L]

Computing technology from Chaldean astronomy to the advent of British and U.S. mass production of electronic mainframes in 1953. Emphasis will be on uses and users, especially on great figures from Babbage through von Neumann, but hardware descriptions will also be featured.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS344H1    History of Mainframe Computing[24L]

Covers the period from mass production in 1953 to the emergence of minicomputers around 1969. Beginnings of software and services industries, networking, university computer science. Emphasis on international developments.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS350H1    Revolution in Science[24S]

An investigation into the nature and development of scientific knowledge, inspired by Kuhns notion of revolutions. Topics may include, the rationality of theory choice, and social constructivism.

Prerequisite: HPS250H1 or permission of the instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS352H1    History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences[24L]

This course explores central developments, ongoing controversies, and major figures in the social sciences: sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, and the behavioral sciences. It concentrates on such prominent individuals as: Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Franz Boas, Sigmund Freud, and Gunnar Myrdal.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

JHE353H1    History of Evolutionary Biology I[24L/12T]

An examination of major ideas about biological evolution from the 18th century to the 1930s and of their impact on scientific and social thought. Topics include the diversity of life and its classification, the adaptation of organisms to their environment, Wallace’s and Darwin’s views on evolution by natural selection, sexual selection, inheritance from Mendel to T.H. Morgan, eugenics, and the implications of evolution for religion, gender roles, and the organization of society.

Prerequisite: 6 full courses or equivalent including (BIO120H1,BIO220H1)/150Y1
Exclusion: EEB353H1/HPS323H1/353H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JHE355H1    History of Evolutionary Biology II [24L/12T]

An examination of ideas about biological evolution from the 1930s to the present. Topics include the Modern Synthesis, population genetics, the concept of biological species, ecology, sociobiology, and creationism.

Prerequisite: 6 full courses or equivalent including (BIO120H1,BIO220H1)/150Y1
Exclusion: EEB355H1/HPS333H1/355H1
Recommended Preparation: JHE353H1, EEB353H1/HPS353H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS360H1    History of Modern Cosmology[24L/12T]

Conceptions of the universe since 1800 with attention to observational sources of changing ideas. History of large telescopes, stellar spectroscopy and radio astronomy. Relativistic conceptions of space and time, models of stellar evolution, discovery of extra-galactic nebulae, Hubble red-shift and microwave background radiation. Philosophical and religious implications are examined.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

HPS375H1    Science and Technology in The Realms of Islam, 600-1600, Part I: The Mathematical Sciences and their Practical Applications (formerly HPS275H1)[24L/12T]

First part of a series on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. History of the exact sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, optics, and cartography.

Prerequisite: At least one MAT or Science course at university level
Exclusion: HPS275H1, NMC379H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS376H1    Science and Technology in the Realms of Islam, 600-1600, Part II: The Life Sciences (formerly HPS276H1)[24L/12T]

Second part of a series on the history of science and technology in the Islamic world. History of biological and life sciences, including history of medicine, botany, agriculture, and alchemy.

Prerequisite: At least one MAT or Science course at university level
Exclusion: HPS276H1, NMC379H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS390H1    History of Mathematics up to 1700[24L/12T]

A survey of ancient, medieval, and early modern mathematics with emphasis on historical issues. (Offered in alternate years)

Prerequisite: At least one full course equivalent at the 200+level from CSC/MAT/STA
Exclusion: HPS310Y1; MAT220Y1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS391H1    History of Mathematics after 1700[24L/12T]

A survey of the development of mathematics from 1700 to the present with emphasis on historical issues. (Offered in alternate years)

Prerequisite: At least one full course equivalent at the 200+level from CSC/MAT/STA
Exclusion: HPS310Y1; MAT220Y1, MAT391H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS410H1    History of Mathematics[24S]

An historical survey from pre-Greek to the present. Various themes are emphasized year to year, to show mathematics as changing and evolving. A student could expect to gain an historical overview as well as a sense of the unity of the mathematical sciences.

Prerequisite: HPS309Y1/HPS310Y1/HPS390H1/HPS391H1/MAT220Y1 and permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS411H1    Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics[24S]

An examination of foundational and conceptual aspects of mathematics such as: the nature of mathematical objects, logicism, Church’s elementalistic mathematics, Gödel’s theorem and formal systems, postulational methods, mathematics and reality, the cardinal, ordinal and abstract approaches to numbers, infinity, and Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries.

Prerequisite: PHL245H1/HPS390H1 or HPS391H1 or HPS410H1 or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: PHL346H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

HPS412H1    History of the Biological Sciences[24S]

Advanced level survey of biological science from ancient Greece to the 20th century emphasizing primary sources analyses.

Prerequisite: HPS200Y1/(HPS210H1 + HPS211H1)/ZOO354Y1/HPS323H1;HPS333H1 and permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: BIO150Y1/European history/Philosophy
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS427H1    Historical Foundations of Chemistry[24S]

The development of chemistry from the Chemical Revolution of Lavoisier to the periodic table of Mendeleev: electro-chemistry, the rise of organic chemistry, classification, valency, structural chemistry.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS430H1    History of Technology I[24S]

An advanced survey of the history of technology from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: HPS201H1/HPS202H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS431H1    History of Technology II [24S]

An advanced survey of the history of technology from the Industrial Revolution to modern times.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: HPS201H1/HPS202H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

JPH441H1    Physical Science in Contemporary Society [24S]

Complex nature of the scientific method; connection between theory, concepts and experimental data; insufficiency of reductionism; characteristics of pathological and pseudo-science; public perception and misperception of science; science and public policy; ethical issues; trends in modern science.

Prerequisite: PHY224H1/PHY252H1/PHY256H1/ENV235H1
Exclusion: PHY341H1
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

HPS481H1    Special Research Opportunity in History of Medicine[24L/6T]

This course offers advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake original research into the history of medi-cine, under the guidance of a faculty seminar leader and a graduate student mentor. Students are required to initiate and pur-sue a research project of their own design, culminating in a research paper.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: Preparation with instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS482H1    Special Research Opportunity in History of Science[24L/6T]

This course offers advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake original research into the history of the natu-ral or physical sciences, under the guidance of a faculty seminar leader and a graduate student mentor. Students are required to initiate and pursue a research project, culminating in a research paper.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: preparation with instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS483H1    Special Research Opportunity in History of Technology [24L/6T]

This course offers advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake original research into the history of the natu-ral or physical sciences, under the guidance of a faculty seminar leader and a graduate student mentor. Students are required to initiate and pursue a research project, culminating in a research paper.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: Preparation with instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS484H1    Special Research Opportunity in Philosophy of Science I[24L/6T]

This course offers advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake original research into the history of the natu-ral or physical sciences, under the guidance of a faculty seminar leader and a graduate student mentor. Students are required to initiate and pursue a research project, culminating in a research paper.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: Preparation with instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS485H1    Special Research Opportunity in Philosophy of Science 2[24L/6T]

This course offers advanced undergraduate students the opportunity to undertake original research into the history of the natu-ral or physical sciences, under the guidance of a faculty seminar leader and a graduate student mentor. Students are required to initiate and pursue a research project, culminating in a research paper.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Recommended Preparation: Preparation with instructor
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS495Y1    Individual Studies[TBA]

A reading and research project in some aspect of history of science and technology, supervised by a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the Institute and are subject to availability of a faculty supervisor.

Prerequisite: Two HPS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS496H1    Individual Studies[TBA]

A reading and research project in some aspect of the social, cultural or intellectual history of science and technology, supervised by a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the Institute by the previous June for a Fall course or by November for a Spring course, and are subject to availability of a faculty supervisor.

Prerequisite: Two HPS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Science course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS497H1    Individual Studies[TBA]

A reading and research project in some aspect of the social, cultural or intellectual history of science and technology, supervised by a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the Institute by the previous June for a Fall course or by November for a Spring course, and are subject to availability of a faculty supervisor.

Prerequisite: Two HPS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS498H1    Individual Studies[TBA]

 A reading and research project in some aspect of the development of scientific theory or practice, supervised by a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the Institute by the previous June for a Fall course or by November for a Spring course, and are subject to availability of a faculty supervisor.

Prerequisite: Two HPS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None

HPS499H1    Individual Studies[TBA]

A reading and research project in some aspect of the development of scientific theory or practice, supervised by a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the Institute by the previous June for a Fall course or by November for a Spring course, and are subject to availability of a faculty supervisor.

Prerequisite: Two HPS courses
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities course
Breadth Requirement: None