History (HIST) 404

Overview

HIST 404 is designed primarily for science students in the last year of a BS program, and for history students in the last year of a BA (History) program. As such, History 404 uses a range of primary and secondary materials as well as visual media, notably, the thirteen episodes that make up the lecture series A History of Science in Society.

Outline

Unit 1: What Is Science?

Unit 2: The Origins of Natural Philosophy or Why the Greeks?

Unit 3: Science in the Roman and Islamic Worlds and the 12th Century Revival in Western Europe

Unit 4: Science in the Renaissance

Unit 5: The Scientific Revolution

Unit 6: Science and the Enlightenment

Unit 7: Science and the Age of Empire

Unit 8: The End of Certainty: Science, War and the Onset of the Atomic Age

Unit 9: Discovering DNA

Unit 10: Hypatia’s Heritage: Women’s Role in Science

Unit 11: The Shrinking World

Evaluation

To receive credit for HIST 404, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent or better on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

Assignment 1	Assignment 2	Assignment 3	Final Exam	Total
15%	20%	25%	40%	100%

The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Other Materials

The course materials include a study guide.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the HIST 404 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “D” (50 percent) on the examination.

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form