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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HST 393 - Western Man in the Cosmos I

Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: Course not open to Freshmen
An historical examination of man’s interaction with nature. The course surveys that interaction from the prehistoric era to the Scientific Revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Here the cosmos in understood in its broader meaning: it encompasses man’s immediate biological and geological environments, but special attention is placed upon the heavenly cosmos. Culturally, man’s understanding of that cosmos is expressed in a variety of ways-through myth, religion, and empirical evidence. A major theme of this course is the complex interplay between “religion” and “science” and how those terms have come to be defined. Cross-listed with REL 393
Graded