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Courses for Non-majors:
Because of HPS's interdisciplinary nature, most courses are of interest to and can be taken by students who are not majoring in HPS. Two upper-division courses are designed for undergraduate majors (1702, 1703) and may be taken only by them. Almost all HPS courses fulfill some General Education Requirements either in philosophy, history, social science, or natural science. Students should consult the CAS Student Guide for details. Upper-level courses are sometimes cross-listed with graduate courses. All courses are three credits unless otherwise indicated. For descriptions, see the CAS Course Descriptions newspaper.

Course Offerings:

• 0410 Einstein for Everyone: Modern Science and its Surprises: offered Spring Term.
• 0419 Revolutions and Revolutionaries: offered infrequently.
• 0427 Myth and Science: cross-listed with CLASS 0330; offered frequently.
• 0430 NEW! Galileo and the creation of modern science: 3 credits, offered Fall Term.
• 0437 Darwinism and its Critics: offered infrequently.
• 0515 Magic, Medicine, and Science: cross-listed with HIST 0089; offered frequently.
• 0517 Thinking about the Environment: offered frequently.
• 0545 Space-Time-Matter: Antiquity to the 20th Century: offered infrequently.
• 0546 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0545; 1 credit.
• 0547 Space-Time-Matter Writing Practicum: co-requisite HPS 0545; 0 credits.
• 0605 The Nature of Emotions
• 0610 Causal Reasoning
• 0611 Principles of Scientific Reasoning
• 0612 Mind and Medicine: offered each Fall Term.
• 0613 Morality and Medicine: offered frequently.
• 0614 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; offered Fall Term; 1 credit.
• 0615 Mind and Medicine Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0612; offered Fall Term; 0 credits.
• 0616 Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Science: offered infrequently.
• 0620 Science and Religion: cros0620 Science and Religion: cross listed with PHIL 0840; UHC.
• 0621 Problem Solving: How Science Works
• 0623 Explanations of Humans and Society: offered frequently.
• 0624 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; offered regularly; 1 credit.
• 0625 Explanations of Humans and Society Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0623; offered regularly; 0 credits.
• 0626 Development of Modern Biology: offered infrequently.
• 0630 Science and Pseudoscience: offered frequently.
• 0633 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy.
• 0634 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 0 credits.
• 0635 Science, Philosophy, and Public Policy Writing Practicum: co-requisite: HPS 0633; 1 credit.
• 0682 Freedom and Determinism
• 1410 Change, Progress, and Ideology: offered Fall Term.
• 1508 Classics in the History of Science: offered infrequently.
• 1528 European Intellectual History I
• 1530 European Intellectual History II
• 1531 Man and the Cosmos in the European Renaissance
• 1600 Philosophy and the Rise of Modern Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1600
• 1605 Aesthetics and Science: offered infrequently.
• 1610 Philosophy of Anthropology: cross-listed with PHIL 1630, ANTH 1710; offered frequently.
• 1612 Philosophy of 20th Century Physics: offered regularly.
• 1615 Philosophy of Social Science: offered infrequently.
• 1616 Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Science: offered infrequently.
• 1620 Philosophy of Biology: cross-listed with PHIL 1650
• 1625 Philosophy of Medicine.
• 1627 Living with Technology: offered infrequently.
• 1653 Seminar in Philosophy of Science: offered each Fall Term.
• 1660 Paradox
• 1682 Freedom and Determinism: offered infrequently.
• 1690 Topics in Philosophy of Science: cross-listed with PHIL 1690
• 1702 Junior/Senior Seminar for HPS Undergraduate Majors
• 1703 Writing Workshop for HPS Undergraduate Majors
• 1800 Special Topics in History and Philosophy of Science
• 1901 Independent Study: registration by permission from department only; offered each semester; may be taken as UHC; variable credits 1-6.

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