Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313223 History of Science: Science, History and Society | OT | 0 | 1 |
None.
The student will obtain a wide-ranging, detailed and updated knowledge of the modern and contemporary history of science, technology and medicine, fundamentally in the contexts of Catalonia, Spain
and Europe, from the point of view of material culture, heritage and communication.
This strategy will allow the student to know the meaning of the material culture of science and medicine -practices, processes, structures, meanings and knowledges associated to instruments,
technologies and the spaces of science and medicine-, and their relation with organisational changes, the creation of new connected spaces, and the production of professional identities.
Besides, the student will know the diverse forms of communication tied to these processes and, specially, the relationship between mass media and the processes of generation, circulation and
management of scientific, medical and technological knowledge, and its role in socio-cultural transformations in history.
Themes
Spaces, heritage, material culture and communication: in situ
Spaces, heritage, material culture and communication: theoretical frames
Cabinets and bookshops to the Republic of the Letters
Anatomical Theatres: science and spectacle
The publics of science in the Enlightenment
Engineering and society in 19th century Barcelona
The origins of the RACAB: for an useful science
Looking at the sky: astronomy and meteorology, 19th-20th centuries
Clinics and hospitals: medicine, architecture and city
Cathedrals of science: from the science museum to the science center
Museologic sciences and artifacts
Museums of technologic and industrial heritage
Natural sciences, heritage and identity
Scientific heritage and exhibitions today
Advertising and science
Science popularization, education and industrialisation in the 19th century
Science and art: from Turner to Banksy and beyond
Science, literature, the press and comics (ss. XIX-XXI)
Science, cinema, radio and television
Science and communication technologies
Scientific journalism today
Classes have a unique geographical, chronological and thematic character, so that it is the whole that gives consistency and unity. From the diversity of sessions and professors, the module considers as a common denominator the balanced conjunction
between two teaching typologies: the oral explanation, and the contact with the sources, objects and spaces. That is why classes are itinerant, where very different spaces of science are visited, and practical, with a workshop methodological component,
in which students will have contact with several primary sources and objects of study.
Spaces where module sessions are taught:
- UAB/Facultat de Medicina
- UB/Facultat de Física
- Gabinet Salvador
- Teatre RAM
- Acadèmia de Bones Lletres
- MCNB
- CosmoCaixa
- RACAB
- ETSEIB
- Observatori Fabra
- Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya
- Hosp. S. Pau
- IMF-CSIC
- Parc de la Ciutadella / Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona
- Institut Catalá de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont
-Museu Geològic del Seminari Conciliar de Barcelona
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Theory and practice | 75 | 3 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 1 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Monitoring and tutoring of content worked by students | 56.25 | 2.25 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 7, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 23, 22, 21, 1 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual study, problem solving and task completion | 225 | 9 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 7, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 23, 22, 21, 1 |
The assessment contemplates several aspects, among which attendance and active participation
are essential. In addition, compulsory reading of three books (see bibliography) is required: these
are easy to read, and serve as an instrument for channeling more specialized readings thus facilitating
the comprehension of major issues. From these obligatory readings, this module contemplates the
execution of several written essays and an oral presentation, as follows: - Preparation of three brief essays, one for each thematic block: spaces, heritage and communication. The student will have to analyze questions raised and explored in the sessions. These essays will have
a maximum length of 800 words and will carry a weight of 30% on the final grade. - Oral presentation of the heritage essay in a specific workshop on management of scientific heritage.
This presentation will have a weight of 20% on the final grade. - Preparation of the synthesis essay, based on the general theoretical framework and focusing on cases treated or related to one of the thematic blocks. This essay will have a maximum extension of 3,000 words and will be articulated upon guiding questions that will be provided during the course. This essay will have a weight of 50% on the final grade. - The students will obtain the grade of "Non assessable" when the evaluation activities carried out have
a weight lower than 67% in the final grade.
In the event that activities and tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained).
Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on TEAMS, etc.
Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Essays on thematic blocks | 30% | 6 | 0.24 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 7, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 23, 22, 21, 1 |
Oral presentations | 20% | 3 | 0.12 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 7, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 23, 22, 21, 1 |
Synthesis essay | 50% | 9.75 | 0.39 | 2, 17, 18, 19, 6, 5, 4, 3, 11, 9, 10, 8, 12, 7, 15, 14, 16, 13, 20, 23, 22, 21, 1 |
Compulsory reading:
Burke, Peter. Historia social del conocimiento, Paidos, 2002 (orig.2000)
Nieto-Galan, Agustí. Los públicos de la ciencia. Expertos y profanos a través de la historia. Marcial Pons. Madrid 2011.
Thompson, John B. Los media y la modernidad: una teoría de los medios de comunicación, Barcelona, Paidós, 1998, 2003, 2007 (orig. 1995).
In addition to these references, students have complementary readings, not mandatory, which may be commented specifically in the sessions.