Technology, Science, and Environment

The Department of History offers these undergraduate courses in or related to the history of technology, science, and environment. These can be taken as electives by history and non-history majors alike. History majors also may designate History of Technology, Science, and Environment as their area of concentration. (See Undergraduate Program requirements here.)

* HIST 174 Introduction to the History of Science
* HIST 175 Science and Technology in Western Civilization
* HIST 401 Origins of Modern Science from Aristotle to Newton
* HIST 402 The Development of Modern Physical Science: From Newton to Einstein
* HIST 403 Twentieth Century Revolutions in the Physical Sciences
* HIST 404 History of Modern Biology
* HIST 405 Environmental History
* HIST 406 History of Technology
* HIST 407 Technology and Social Change in History
* HIST 450 Economic History of the United States to 1865
* HIST 451 Economic History of the United States after 1865
* HIST 460 History of Labor in the United States

Courses with history of technology content regularly offered by other UM departments include:
* CPSP 227 College Park Scholars Capstone: Science, Technology and Society
* GEMS 104 Gemstone, Science and Technology
* UNIV 401 Science, Technology, and Society: Certificate Program Capstone Seminar  

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