Paradigm Shifts & the Nature of Human Knowing
Facilitator: Phil Kesten, Physics
Many disciplines have experienced drastic changes in thought at some time or another, when people pushed beyond the limits of the discipline’s traditional approaches, assumptions, and understandings. Such paradigm shifts away from previously accepted ways of thinking can provide rich opportunities to explore how we learn, how we understand, and how we think. Understanding the many, sometimes wildly different ways knowledge is constructed and evidence interpreted in different disciplines allows students to reflect more insightfully on their own educations. This pathway includes courses that address ways of thinking within a discipline that are departures from the accepted norms and courses that include the usual ways of knowing and understanding in a discipline.
Associated Courses
Foundations Courses
(Please note that only the specific Foundation course topics qualify for the Pathway requirements,
and only one Foundations course may be applied to a Pathway)
ENGL 2H Paradigms of Knowledge
ENGL 2A Paradigms of Knowledge
ENGL 2A Science, Technology, and Self
Art History
ARTH 22 Introduction to the Arts of Early Modern Europe
ARTH 23 Introduction to the Arts of Later Modern West
ARTH 120 15th Century Florentine Art
Biology
*BIOL 110 Genetics
*BIOL 122 Neurobiology
*BIOL 173 Evolution
*BIOL 175 Molecular Biology
*BIOL 178 Bioinformatics
Chemistry
CHEM 32 Organic Chemistry II
*CHEM 151 Spectroscopy
Computer Engineering
COEN 19 Discrete Mathematics (cross-listed with MATH 51)
*COEN 179 Theory of Algorithms (cross-listed with CSCI 163)
Electrical Engineering
*ELEN 160 Chaos Theory, Metamathematics and the Limits of Science:
An Engineering Perspective on Religion (cross-listed with ELEN 217)
*ELEN 217 Chaos Theory, Metamathematics and the Limits of Science:
An Engineering Perspective on Religion (cross-listed with ELEN 160)
History
HIST 84 Women in American Society (cross-listed with WGST 57)
HIST 137 The Soviet Experiment
HIST 177 Gays and Lesbians in United States History (cross-listed with WGST 138)
HIST 188S The Making of Modern America: The Progressive Era
Mathematics and Computer Science
*CSCI 161 Theory of Automata and Languages I
*CSCI 162 Theory of Automata and Languages II
*CSCI 163 Theory of Algorithms (cross-listed with COEN 179)
*CSCI 164 Computer Simulation
MATH 51 Discrete Mathematics (cross-listed with COEN 19)
MATH 101 Survey of Geometry
*MATH 113 Topology
*MATH 122 Probability and Statistics I
*MATH 123 Probability and Statistics II
Music
*MUSC 156 Improvisation
Philosophy
PHIL 80 Science, Technology and Society
*PHIL 135 Existentialism
*PHIL 140 Philosophy of Science
*PHIL 142 Theory of Knowledge
*PHIL 145 Wittgenstein
The normal prerequisite for all Philosophy upper division courses is upper division standing.
Physics
*PHYS 34 Physics for Scientists & Engineers IV
*PHYS 121 Quantum Mechanics
Psychology
PSYC 50 Ways of Knowing
Religious Studies
*SCTR 35 Science vs. The Bible: The Genesis Debates
*SCTR 165R RSS: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation (cross-listed with WGST 148)
*SCTR 170 Darwin and God
*SCTR 170R RSS: Darwin and God
*TESP 50 Catholic Theology: Foundations
*TESP 58 Vatican II's Theology
*TESP 124 Theology of Marriage
*TESP 127 Theology of Family
Sociology
SOCI 117 Sociology’s Analytical Frameworks & Conceptual Approaches
*SOCI 119 Sociological Theory
Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 57 Women in American Society (cross-listed with HIST 84)
WGST 138 Gays and Lesbians in United States History (cross-listed with HIST 177)
WGST 148 RSS: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation (cross-listed with SCTR 165R)
* Indicates Course Has Prerequisites
