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First Year Seminars
The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details can be found at www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/fyh-1/.
100-level Courses
HPS100H1
Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science
HPS110H1
The Science of Human Nature
HPS120H1
How to Think about Science
200-level Courses
HPS200H1
Science and Values
HPS201H1
Origins of Western Technology
HPS202H1
Technology in the Modern World
HPS203H1
Making Sense of Uncertainty
HPS204H1
Public Nudity: History, Law and Science
HPS210H1
Scientific Revolutions I
HPS211H1
Scientific Revolutions II
HPS222H1
Ideas in the History and Philosophy of Science
HPS230H1
Quantifying the Renaissance
HPS250H1
Introductory Philosophy of Science
HPS260H1
Biology and the Future: Science and Science Fiction
HPS270H1
Science and Literature
HPS280H1
History of Science
HPS299Y1
Research Opportunity Program
300-level Courses
HPS300H1
Topics in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
HPS300Y0
Britain and the Rise of Modern Science
(Offered through Summer Abroad Program)
HPS301H1
Topics in the History of Science
HPS302H1
Topics in Philosophy of Science
HPS304H1
A History Lab: Biomedical Sciences, Past and Present
HPS307H1
History of Energy
HPS308H1
Technology and Prosperity
HPS309H1
Worldviews: Aristotelian-Medieval Worldview
JPH311H1
History of Physics
HPS313H1
Two Hundred Years of Electricity
HPS316H1
Environment, Technology, and Nature
HPS318H1
History of Medicine I
HPS319H1
History of Medicine II
HPS321H1
Understanding Engineering Practice: From Design to Entrepreneurship
HPS322H1
Complexity, Order, and Emergence
HPS324H1
Natural Science and Social Issues
HPS326H1
History of Science and Religion
HPS333H1
Famous Debates in Science
HPS352H1
History of the Human Sciences
JHE353H1
History of Evolutionary Biology
JHE355H1
History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
HPS360H1
History of Modern Cosmology
HPS390H1
History of Mathematics to 1700
HPS391H1
History of Mathematics from 1700
HPS395Y0
Science, Development, and Innovation in Contemporary China
(Offered through Summer Abroad Program)
400-level Courses
HPS410H1
History of Mathematics
HPS411H1
Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics
HPS412H1
History of the Biological Sciences
HPS430H1
History of Technology I
HPS431H1
History of Technology II
HPS440H1
Topics in the History of Medicine
HPS450H1
Revolution in Science
Research Opportunities
HPS481H1
Special Research Opportunity in History of Medicine
HPS482H1
Special Research Opportunity in History of Science
HPS483H1
Special Research Opportunity in History of Technology
HPS484H1
Special Research Opportunity in Philosophy of Science I
HPS485H1
Special Research Opportunity in Philosophy of Science II
HPS495Y1
Individual Studies
HPS496H1/HPS497H1/HPS498H1/HPS499H1
Individual Studies
HPS499Y1
Individual Studies