Course Descriptions - Nature and History HSTC 3150   Nature and History
CREDIT HOURS: 3
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the study of the natural world and historical thought have been closely linked. Participants in the seminar will read texts which helped to define ideas of history in the era after the Enlightenment and consider how these ideas influenced, and were influenced by, developments in scientific thought. The seminar will consider how nature and history are related in idealism, historical materialism and the thinking of the evolutionists, and how this connection is rejected by Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault.
FORMAT: Seminar
CROSS-LISTING: CTMP 3250.03