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Dual Major in Justice Studies
The Justice Studies Dual Major is intended for Students who are looking for careers in the justice system or who seek graduate training in Law or Social Sciences and Humanities related to the Law. Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary area that blends topics from Humanities Departments (e.g. Philosophy), Social Science Departments (e.g. Psychology, Sociology, Women’s Studies), Departments that include both Humanities and Social Science Faculty (History, Political Science), and professionally-oriented Departments (Education, Family Studies, Social Work). Students will be required to choose a first major before they are able to declare Justice Studies as a second major. The goal is to produce graduates who have a higher level of knowledge about law and justice in American society and in the world so that they will mature into more knowledgeable and effective citizens.
History and Philosophy of Science Minor
Why have people in different periods had such strangely diverging views on such questions as the motion of the heavens, or the nature of the human body, or the logic that governs human actions and desires? And what do these differences say about the truth of our own views? It is a puzzling reality of world history that the human understanding and experience of nature, society, and the mind have varied greatly with place and time. This minor provides students with an opportunity to explore this intriguing variety - both in terms of its historical origins and its philosophical implications. The minor is highly interdisciplinary, offering courses in such diverse departments as economics, history, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology. It presupposes no specialized scientific background and may be combined with any undergraduate major. Five 4-credit courses are required for the minor, with no more than three from any single department.
Students interested in minoring in history and philosophy of science should contact the coordinator, Jan Golinski, Horton Social Science Center.
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Courses for the Minor
ECON 615, History of Economic Thought
ECON 698, Topics in Economics (*)
ECON 798, Economic Problems (*)
HIST 521, The Origins of Modern Science
HIST 522, Science in the Modern Period
HIST 523, Introduction to the History of Science
HIST 621, 622, History of American Thought
HIST 651, 652, European Intellectual History
HIST 654, Topics in History of Science
HUMA 651, Humanities and Science: The Nature of Scientific Creativity
MATH 419, Evolution of Mathematics
PHIL 424, Science, Technology, and Society
PHIL 435, The Human Animal
PHIL 630, Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
PHIL 683, Technology: Philosophical and Ethical Issues
PHIL 725, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PHIL 780, Special Topics in Philosophy (*)
PSYC 571, The Great Psychologists
PSYC 591, Special Topics in Psychology (*)
PSYC 770, History of Psychology
PSYC 771, Psychology in the 20th-Century: Thought and Society
(*) marked courses with approval only