New MA in the CULTURE AND HSTORY OF SCIENCE

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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Located in the Faculty of Arts, the new MA in the Culture and History 
of Science examines the relation of science to culture in terms of 
questions such as 'what is science?'; 'do science and culture share a 
common ground in their investigations of "the natural" and "the 
human" ?'; 'in what ways are literary forms of interpretation bound 
up with questions of scientific method?'

The greatest strengths of this MA programme lie in the social, 
cultural and intellectual history of early modern and 
nineteenth-century science, and in the social and cultural history of 
medicine. The departments of English, History, and Philosophy offer 
research supervision over a range of topics--from the Renaissance 
period to the twentieth century. MPhil and PhD research is 
facilitated by two good libraries, numerous seminars, and a lively 
and diverse community of staff, students, and visiting scholars. The 
Faculty of Arts is strongly committed to interdisciplinary work.

Teaching staff: Steven Dorney, Waltraud Ernst, David Glover, Lucy 
Hartley, Cora Kaplan, Peter Middleton, David Pugmire, Jonathan Sawday

Areas of expertise: sociology of knowledge, esp. scientific 
communities; history of medicine, esp. South Asia during the colonial 
period; liberalism & scientific knowledge; history & philosophy of 
science, esp. 19th-century theories of emotion & mind; gender, 
science, and the rise of racial thinking; art, science & the new 
physics; philosophy of mind; early modern medicine, science & 
culture.

Resources: Hartley Library; Biomedical Sciences Library

Types of undergraduate courses: Options available as part of English 
and/or History and/or Philosophy degree.

Postgraduate courses offered: MA in Culture and History of Science (1 
yr full-time; 2 yrs part-time)

Research degrees offered: MPhil, PhD. 

For futher details contact: Dr. Lucy Hartley, Dept. of English, 
University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ. Tel: 01703 593168. 
Fax: 01703 592859 (Departmental Office: 01703 593409). Email: 
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Dr Waltraud Ernst
Department of History

Tel: (01703-59) 6648
Fax: (01703-59) 3458

Dr Waltraud Ernst
Department of History
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
 
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Tel: 01703-596648
Fax: 01703-593458


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