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France Université Numerique

Scientific Humanities

Sciences Pro via France Université Numerique

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About the Course

"Scientific humanities" means the extension of interpretative skills to the discoveries made by science and to technical innovations. The course will equip future citizens with the means to be at ease with many issues that straddle the distinctions between science, morality, politics and society.

The course provides concepts and methods to :

  • learn the basics of the field called “science and technology studies”, a vast corpus of literature developed over the last forty years to give a realistic description of knowledge production
  • handle the flood of different opinions about contentious issues and order the various positions by using the tools now available through digital media
  • comment on those different pieces of news in a more articulated way through a specifically designed blog.

    • Course Format : the course is organized in 8 sequences It displays multimedia contents (images, video, original documents)

    Taught by

    Bruno Latour

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