Constructing Knowledge

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The course investigates knowledge construction in different disciplinary areas and across languages and cultures. It examines the issue through the major epistemological assumptions of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities and specifically addresses current reconsideration of these assumptions and their consequences in light of changing socio-political, intellectual, and discursive practices and interests. A focal area will be the contribution of language to human being, knowing, and learning.