Outline of the graduate course “Western Historiography of the History of Science”
<br>Alexei Volkov (琅元)
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<br>NB: All the seminars and assignments will use English as teaching medium.
<br>Location: General Education building 教育館, room 201; time: Wednesdays, 15:00-18:00, or TBA
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<br>Introduction: the goals and the scope of the Course
<br>This course is a sequel to the course “Introduction to the History of Science” read for the graduate students of the Institute of History in the Falls of 2006 and 2007. The main purpose of this 3-credit course is to introduce to the graduate students interested in History of Science the elements of history of science and of research methodology which they will need in their future research. 
<br>The course projected audience is the first- and second-year graduate students majoring in “History of Science” (hereafter HS) and “Science and Technology in Society” (hereafter STS) Programs (Sections B and C, 乙、丙組); however, the graduate students from the A and D sections (甲、丁組), as well as interested undergraduate students interested in HS and STS are welcome to take the course.
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<br>The contents of the course
<br>The course will be focusing on the main approaches to the history and philosophy of science of the 20PthP century represented in the works of B. Hessen, H. Bergson, I. Lakatos, P. Feyerabend, D. Blur, and will introduce a number of topics hitherto underrepresented in the courses read in the National Tsing Hua University (P. R. Gross and N. Levitt, A. Sokal). The students will also learn to structure and to express their ideas in the conventional forms adopted in the field when working on their 
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<br>No textbook for the course will be available; the students will receive their assignments every week via internet or in class. The students are expected to attend all the seminars and to take notes. 
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<br>UEvaluation:
<br>1. Written assignment given to students weekly. The total mark for this unit will amount to 20% of the final mark.
<br>2. Participation in class discussions and mutual peer evaluations (15%). 
<br>3. Term paper (40%).
<br>4. Oral defence of the term paper (25%).  
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