Histories of Science and Technology in Latin America
HISTSCI 1845
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Description
This course examines the role that science and technology—as understood by both governments and individual citizens—played in the formation of modern Latin American countries. While focusing on the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century, the course will also lay the groundwork to understanding different knowledge systems and what happened to these with the arrival of Europeans to the Americas. Examples will span, for example, the measurement of indigenous women’s pelvises as evidence of a supposed inferior Indigenous race, to recent use of drones by cartels, to hydro technologies in climate-changed regions, to agrotechnology to end global hunger.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
History of Science
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
History of Science
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
