# Teaching Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 33 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 33 results ### Spring, 2026 [### Scientific Visualization: From Galileo to DNA and Black Holes ](/class/scientific-visualization-galileo-dna-and-black-holes) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2026 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/165513) Visualization has been central to the development of science over the last 400 years, from Galileo through DNA to black holes. From diagrams and thought experiments through traces, photographs and film, the ability to picture, and reproduce, images of scientific phenomena... ### Spring, 2025 [### Collaborative Scientific Knowledge ](/class/collaborative-scientific-knowledge) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2025 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/149867) Scientific knowledge does not spring whole into being like Athena from the head of Zeus, full grown and armored. Instead, it depends on networks and affiliations, bonded communities of experimenters, instrument makers, and theorists. We will begin with attention to early... ### Spring, 2024 [### Filming Science ](/class/filming-science-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2024 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/126091) Examination of the theory and practice of capturing scientific practice on film. Topics will include fictional, documentary, informational, and instructional films and raise problems emerging from film theory, visual anthropology and science studies. Each student will make... ### Fall, 2024 [### Einstein Changes Our World ](/class/einstein-changes-our-world) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2024 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/140879) Albert Einstein is the most famous figure in science, ever. Following his physics, cultural, philosophical, and political trajectory, this seminar aims to track the shifting role of science in the 20th and 21st centuries. This first-year seminar addresses Einstein's... ### Spring, 2023 [### Latour and his Interlocutors ](/class/latour-and-his-interlocutors) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2023 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/117572) This course will follow major debates and transformations in the history of Science and Technology Studies and allied fields by tracing the works of Bruno Latour through the network of his interlocutors. Topics will include early and later forays into history, anthropology... ### Fall, 2023 [### Scientific Visualization: From Galileo to Black Holes ](/class/scientific-visualization-galileo-black-holes-0) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2023 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/122383) Visualization has been central to the development of science over the last 400 years, from Galileo to black holes. From diagrams and thought experiments through traces, photographs and film, the ability to picture, and reproduce, images of scientific phenomena has shaped our... ### Spring, 2021 [### The Past and Futures of the University ](/class/past-and-futures-university) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 This seminar is aimed at exploring the changing structure, aims, and impact of the university, from early days through our present vexed moment to possible futures. The goal is to explore the foundational premises of why we have universities, where they come from and where... ### Fall, 2021 [### The Epistemology of Collaborations ](/class/epistemology-collaborations) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2021 Science works through collaborations and yet our epistemology—how we gain and secure knowledge—is fundamentally tied to the thinking, perceiving, and acting individual. How should we understand the epistemology of collaborations, from a handful of scientists working at a lab... ### Spring, 2020 [### Scientific Visualization: From Galileo to Black Holes ](/class/scientific-visualization-galileo-black-holes) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2020 Visualization has been central to the development of science over the last 400 years. From diagrams and thought experiments through traces, photographs and film, the ability to picture, and reproduce, images of scientific phenomena has shaped our understanding of the natural... ### Fall, 2020 [### Critical History: Time, Cause, and Agency ](/class/critical-history-time-cause-and-agency) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 This seminar aims at exploring the underlying metaphysics of historical writing. Using Foucault (especially his meta-historical works) as our guiding thread, we will examine critically the assumptions that lie behind the idea of causal plenitude (that events all have causal... ### Spring, 2019 [### Scientific Sites ](/class/scientific-sites) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2019 This course aims to explore scientific-technical sites—places of research, production, teaching, testing, and disposal. Some may be historical (such as disused Cold War relics), others in current use. How are these places shaped by the work that goes in them; how do the... ### Fall, 2018 [### Science, State, Corporation ](/class/science-state-corporation) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 In the heat of World War II, the state for the first time systematically contracted universities to advance science and technology to pursue the war effort. During the Cold War, the institutional and legal arrangements that facilitated the state-science relationship... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")