This course traces the rapid rise and expansion of science from 1700 to the present as it challenged religion as the ultimate source of ‘truth’ in Western society. It examines how this transformation took place, and the social, economic, and cultural factors that underlay the changing paradigms that enabled modern chemistry, geology, evolutionary biology, genetics, medical science, and other enterprises that dominate our current understanding and shape the world in which we live. Lect: 3 hrs. Antirequisite: HST 425 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
