A seminar course on the relationships among science, technology, and society from cultures outside Europe and North America, examined through a series of case studies. Topics from which the case studies might be drawn include: Chinese medicine and technology; Arabic mathematics, medicine, and astronomy; Indian science and technology (including, for example, metalworking and textile production); Mayan mathematics and astronomy; Polynesian navigation; various indigenous peoples’ sustainable subsistence technologies (e.g. African agriculture, Native American land management, aboriginal Australian dreamtime). This course may be repeated for different topics. This course will be offered in 2021-22, and in alternating years thereafter.
Courses in global history and the history of science and technology.