Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Missouri S and T/History of Science (Spring 2025)
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- Course name
- History of Science
- Institution
- Missouri S and T
- Instructor
- Kathleen Sheppard
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- History
- Course dates
- 2025-01-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-05-09 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of science, from the ancient world to today. Because it covers such a long period of time—approximately 5000 years—it is necessarily a survey of the important ideas, people, institutions and developments throughout time. Students will also analyze the close relationship between science and culture, discussing issues such as ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender which pervade human society, and therefore science. This course is set up chronologically as well as thematically so that we can more fully understand the intricacies within these complex relationships. Students will be editing articles having to do with the history of science in any discipline, period, or area of the world from Aristotle to today. It is a broad class, so they have broad options for articles.