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Science, Technology & Modernity
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Science, Technology & Modernity

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Beginner level

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5 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Trace the evolution of science from ancient Greek philosophy through Islamic, Indian, and Chinese contributions to modern scientific thought.

  • Analyze the Scientific Revolution and Industrial Revolution's transformative impact on Western societies and the emergence of modern science.

  • Evaluate the concept of modernity, enlightenment ideals, and their relationship with scientific and technological development globally.

  • Apply critical thinking to examine received views on science, technology, and globalisation in contemporary society.

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There are 10 modules in this course

This module aims to provide you with a clearer conception of terms such as 鈥楽cience鈥, 鈥楾echnology鈥 and 鈥楳odernity鈥. It will help you identify the ethos of science and the challenges such ethos faces in the contemporary period. In this module, you will learn about a brief history of the idea of technology and the nature of its relationship with science.

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7 videos9 readings9 assignments

This module will take you through the Natural Philosophy of the ancient Greek era, which is widely held to be furnishing the roots for Modern Science. It will introduce you to some of the key ideas of natural philosophers such as Thales, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes etc. In this section, you will find out how the Greek period natural philosophy was truly path-breaking, and one that eventually shaped knowledge of nature, for the next two millennia.

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8 videos8 readings10 assignments

This module will introduce you to some of the major scientific and technological advances that ancient Indians did as part of their contribution to modern science. In this module, there will be discussion on topics such as Vedic ideas, nature of astronomy and mathematics that was pursued and technological advancement in the field of metallurgy, medicine and agriculture.

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7 videos7 readings9 assignments

This module will take you through Arabic science during the middle ages, when significant accomplishments were made. It will help you understand how Islamic religion contributed to a scientific renaissance in the Arab and Middle east region that eventually laid the foundation for the emergence of modern science in the west.

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9 videos9 readings11 assignments

This module will help you understand how technology and applied science developed in Chinese from an ancient period. In this section, you will learn how technologies such as printing, hydraulic, maritime, gunpowder etc. developed in China and its kind of sciences that carried a different character as compared to the western tradition.

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9 videos9 readings11 assignments

This module will take you through how Europe revived itself in the middle ages, establishing not just universities for higher learning, but also providing a fertile ground for a scientific revolution to take place in subsequent periods. In this module, you will find discussion on the European Renaissance and the astronomical revolution that challenged the classical geocentric worldview.

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6 videos6 readings8 assignments

This module will take you through the important contributions made by Galileo and Newton in shaping the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. In this module, you will learn about Galileo鈥檚 famous trial and a brief overview of his path-breaking work such as, 鈥楾wo New Sciences鈥. In addition to Galileo, you will also learn about Newton, his worldview and a brief introduction to his work - Principia. Further in this module, you will be introduced to the contributions of Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes, both of whom are well known for their notable role in the making of modern science.

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7 videos7 readings9 assignments

This module will help you learn how societies in the West began to transform from an agriculture-based economy to industries in the eighteenth century. In this module, you will have the scope to find out how innovation in textile industries, iron making, and the invention of the steam engine were interrelated in quite unanticipated ways, leading to a social transformation that was not seen since the Neolithic period.

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7 videos7 readings9 assignments

This module will take you through yet another phase of the scientific revolution in which new empirical sciences were mathematised and merged with classical sciences, giving rise to science-based industries. In this module, you will learn how a classical worldview emerged, providing a philosophical anchor to broader changes in science and technology and the way in which the industrialisation process spread rapidly to all parts of the world. Further in this module, you will have the scope to reflect on how industrialisation was tied to 鈥榗olonialism鈥 and the type of impact it had on countries such as India.

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7 videos7 readings9 assignments

This module will take you through the idea of enlightenment and its relationship with modernity. In this course, you will learn different ways through which scholars and thinkers have engaged with modernity, including the approach of post-modernity and critical negotiations.

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8 videos9 readings10 assignments

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