History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HIPS)

2026-2027

114 courses

HIPS 11300Science Communication: Crafting a Science Think Piece
HIPS 11400Science Communication: Producing a Science Podcast
HIPS 11800Introduction to the Field of Science Communication
HIPS 15005Engineered Environments in East Asia
HIPS 15006Histories of the Bomb
HIPS 15007History of Biotech
HIPS 18302Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization I: Ancient Science
HIPS 18401Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization II: History of Medicine 1500 to 1900
HIPS 18404Science, Culture, and Society II - Medieval and Early Modern Science
HIPS 18504Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization III: Computation, Culture & Society
HIPS 18506Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization III: Modern Science
HIPS 18509Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civ III: History of Science and Technology in Russia
HIPS 20043Medicine, Culture, and Society
HIPS 20223Magic, Miracles, and Medicine: Healthcare in the Bible and the Ancient World
HIPS 20401Philosophy of Mind
HIPS 20574How to Think Sociologically
HIPS 20576Social Theory for the Digital Age
HIPS 20608Remaking the Prairie: The Cultural Politics of Ecological Restoration
HIPS 20700Introduction to Logic
HIPS 20962Nature's Authority
HIPS 21000Introduction To Ethics
HIPS 21014Toxic Chicago
HIPS 21201Symbiosis: Where science meets the humanities
HIPS 21406Britain 1760-1880: The Origins of Fossil Capitalism
HIPS 21407The Vocation of a Scientist
HIPS 21408History of Medicine
HIPS 21409History of Extraterrestrial Life
HIPS 21410Politics of Technoscience in Africa
HIPS 21413Sex and Enlightenment Science
HIPS 21414What is Technology?
HIPS 21530Reading ethnographically, thinking anthropologically
HIPS 21700Science Communication: Explorations of Mars
HIPS 22001Introduction to Science Studies
HIPS 22107Queer Reproduction
HIPS 22200Learning How to Die
HIPS 22207The Social History of Alcohol in Early Modern Europe
HIPS 22210Disease, Health, and the Environment in Global Context
HIPS 22245New Testament Readings: Disability, Healing, and Ancient Medicine
HIPS 22300Sydney: Colonization, Health, and the Environment
HIPS 22305Who deserves what? Analyzing inequalities in institutional decision-making
HIPS 22310The Commons: Environment and Economy in Early Modern Europe
HIPS 22500Death
HIPS 22707The Industrial Revolution
HIPS 22708Planetary Britain, 1600-1900
HIPS 22790Science and Technology in Modern South Asia
HIPS 22800Experiencing Madness: Empathic Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
HIPS 23107Biodiversity: Past and Present
HIPS 23404Science and Values
HIPS 23519The Arts of Number in the Middle Ages: The Quadrivium
HIPS 23570Power and Responsibility in the Anthropocene
HIPS 23614Judaism and Science
HIPS 23810Big Data and AI: Global Histories, Ethics, and Justice
HIPS 23830Power and Medicine
HIPS 23900Biological and Cultural Evolution
HIPS 24100Is It Ethical to Have Children in the Climate Crisis?
HIPS 24103Bioethics
HIPS 24240Buddhism and Science: A Critical Introduction
HIPS 24352Health, Value, Politics
HIPS 24706Science in the South: Decolonizing the Study of Knowledge in Latin America & the Caribbean
HIPS 24803History of Sexuality and Sin
HIPS 24921Darwinism and Literature
HIPS 25011Debating Science: Legitimacy, Authority, and Knowledge
HIPS 25014Introduction to Environmental History
HIPS 25035Modern Nature
HIPS 25121The Brazil-Argentina Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and Thermoelectric Transition in Brazil
HIPS 25206Digital Culture: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and the Web
HIPS 25207Mindfulness: Experience and Media
HIPS 25221Feminism and the Politics of Abortion
HIPS 25270Infrastructure Histories
HIPS 25309History of Perception
HIPS 25417Biology, Technology, and Politics in 20th Century Europe
HIPS 25505The Scientific Image
HIPS 25610Occult powers: divinatory and magical sciences in the Indian and Islamicate worlds
HIPS 25706Climate Justice
HIPS 25707Contested Concepts: "Indigeneity" and Ecological Thought
HIPS 25808Lab, Field, and Clinic: History and Anthropology of Medicine and the Life Sciences
HIPS 26000History of Philosophy II: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
HIPS 26021Sense & Sensibility & Science
HIPS 26043The Aesthetics of Artificial Intelligence
HIPS 26078Normal People