Natural versus Human Sciences

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

An inquiry into the differences between the natural and human sciences, including historical development of the sciences since the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries and the growth of the human/social sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries. This course will survey the complex and numerous similarities and differences that exist between the natural and human sciences across a wide range of disciplines, including the underlying debate over what human nature is.