This course is a parallel course to 180, intended for students interested in teaching elementary or secondary school science and math. Students in the "T" course will attend the regular 180 lectures and a special section; this section will focus on techniques, skills, and perspectives necessary to apply the history of science in the juvenile and adolescent science classroom, including pedagogy, devising lesson plans for their classrooms, finding reliable historical information, and writing.

This course provides an account of the origins and development of modern biology from a jointly social and conceptual perspective. Significant developments in the human knowledge of life on earth will thus be presented as both an intellectual process—the advocation and contestation of key ideas and theories through time—and as the result of the entanglement of those ideas with the cultural, political, economic, and institutional contexts in which they are produced. Students will come away from the course with an understanding of both the major problems, puzzles, and solutions that biologists wrestled with in their collective attempts to understand the phenomenon of life over the past three centuries, and the deep connections between those efforts and the unique historical environments in which they were pursued.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills