Course Description

HI342 Culture and Ideas in the Modern World: Descartes to Darwin 0.5

This course studies the major themes in the history of culture and ideas that helped to shape the Western world from the 17th-century Scientific Revolution to Charles Darwin's 19th-century theory of evolution. Topics include changing representations of nature, of society, and of the individual, over time and within changing historical contexts. {E} {C/S}

Exclusion: HI302*.

Official electronic version updated at 10:33 a.m. March 31, 2005

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