History 394CI - Ideas That Changed History

This class is about 1. Ideas that have chagned the discipline of history. 2. Ideas that have changed the larger flow of history. 3. Ideas that have changed you, the student, and your relationship to history. 4. Ideas that have changed your personal history.Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Hist majors. (No credit after History 391G).

This course is open to Senior & Junior History majors only. This course will explore a selection of ideas that change history, with a focus on scientific ideas that changed the course of science, history, and the way we think about the world. Topics will vary widely?though primarily focused on US and European history from the Scientific Revolution to the present. This course will require significant reading of both secondary and primary source materials, and lectures will enrich and expand upon outside readings. By the end of the course students will be able to discuss many of the Big Ideas in science and be able to articulate the ways these ideas have shaped our history. This course fulfills the IE requirement for History majors.