The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 253)
The following additional subject will be available from 1 October 2008:
(k) Science and society
The aim of this paper is to offer a critical exploration of recent developments and debates in the anthropology of science in a wide range of social and regional settings, as well as across diverse traditions of thought. The course explores what it means to study societal, institutional, and epistemic conditions of science and scientific knowledge production through a comparative frame. From an anthropological view the critical study of 'cross-cultural science' as ethnographic object puts into political relief the way that encounters between 'parallel worlds', 'purity', 'hybridity', 'reliability', 'evidence', 'verification', and so on are justified as particular social forms and moral action claims.