Schedule
| Date | Topic | Assignment (including reading response options) |
Getting Started
| M | 8/26 | Introduction and overview | |
| W | 8/28 | Setting the stage | |
| F | 8/30 | Enlightenment ideals | Primary: Captain Hall, Franklin |
| M | 9/2 | HOLIDAY | |
| W | 9/4 | Infrastructure and governance | Primary: Adams
Primary: Constitution (not for reading response) |
| F | 9/6 | The educational impulse | Primary: Mrs. Phelps
Secondary: Kohlstedt (SEA) |
Getting Established
| M | 9/9 | Exploring a continent | Secondary: Slotten (SEA) |
| W | 9/11 | Geology and mining | Primary: John LeConte |
| F | 9/13 | Agriculture and its institutions | Primary: Wiley |
| M | 9/16 | A national venture | Assignment: Journal analysis |
| W | 9/18 | Darwin's challenge | Darwin |
| F | 9/20 | Responses to Darwin | Assignment: Research
paper website
Assignment: First thoughts (e-mail) |
The New Era
| M | 9/23 | The modern university (1) | Primary: Joseph LeConte |
| W | 9/25 | The modern university (2) | Secondary: Rossiter (SEA) |
| F | 9/27 | Sciences of society | Primary: Small |
| M | 9/30 | Engineering and industrial research | Secondary: Hughes intro, ch 1, ch 4 |
| W | 10/2 | The scientific ideal | Primary: Peirce |
| F | 10/4 | Conservation | Assignment: Paper topic (e-mail) |
| M | 10/7 | Progressive visions | Secondary: Hughes ch 5 to p 220 |
| W | 10/9 | Transforming the state | (review for midterm) |
| F | 10/11 | Midterm |
Sciences of Life
| M | 10/14 | The new biology | Secondary: Larson intro - ch 3 |
| W | 10/16 | Medicine and education | Primary: Flexner |
| F | 10/18 | Sanitation, hygiene, and imperialism | Primary: State responsibility |
| M | 10/21 | Sciences of the mind | Primary: Scripture |
| W | 10/23 | Social biologisms | Secondary: Larson ch 4-6 (not for reading response) |
| F | 10/25 | Religion and science: evolution | Secondary: Larson ch 7-10 |
Accelerating
| M | 10/28 | The chemists' war: fighting WWI | Assignment: Source list (e-mail) |
| W | 10/30 | The chemists' war: organizing WWI | Secondary: Hughes ch 3 |
| F | 11/1 | Between business and the state | Secondary: Hoover exercise |
| M | 11/4 | Science for better living | Secondary: Mitman (SEA) |
| W | 11/6 | Disciplinary acceleration: physics | Assignment: Paper abstract (e-mail) |
Moment of Truth: WWII and After
| F | 11/8 | The physicists' war: radar | Secondary: Hughes ch 8 to p 421 |
| M | 11/11 | HOLIDAY | |
| W | 11/13 | The physicists' war: the bomb | Primary: Sandberg (not for reading response)
Primary: Before |
| F | 11/15 | The postwar settlement | Secondary: Kevles (SEA) |
| M | 11/18 | Cold War | Primary: Ridenour |
| W | 11/20 | The national security state | Primary: Eisenhower
Secondary: Hughes ch 8 p 421 - end |
| F | 11/22 | Silicon Valley | Primary: Weinberg
Secondary: Hollinger (SEA) |
| M | 11/25 | The space age | Assignment: Research paper due |
Where Are Things Headed?
| W | 11/27 | The 60s: questioning the establishment | Secondary: Hughes ch 9 |
| F | 11/29 | HOLIDAY | |
| M | 12/2 | Ecological thinking | Primary: PSAC |
| W | 12/4 | Biomedicine and biotech | Primary: Berg |
| F | 12/6 | Wrap-up | Assignment: Review essay |
| W | 12/11 | Final exam, 8:00-11:00 a.m. |
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