Studies VI - Technical/Professional Track (HON 199)
Instructors: York and Jenks
General information
The technical/professional section of the Spring sophomore course examines
post-Enlightenment curricular reform, the stabilization of the disciplines, and the
development of the modern professions as the foundation out of which has emerged our
contemporary knowledge society and its "creative class."
Required Texts
Weber, "Science as a Vocation"
Darwin, The Origin of Species
Sullivan, The Autobiography of an Idea
Kohler, Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life
Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture