HOW WILL THE WORLD END? EXISTENTIAL RISK AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE - A BIG QUESTIONS COURSE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This course explores the question of existential risk in the history of science, and the ways different societies and generations have grappled with the possibility of the end of the world (and of life as we know it), from the apocalyptic visions of earlier times to the urgent crises of today.