• To master some historical landmarks.
• To master some concepts enabling to investigate the past in the scientific and technological realms while taking into account the economical, political and social dimensions.
• To analyse the causal threads in some case studies, based on texts.

• General lecture.
• Case studies, based on a selection of texts.

In focus :

1 - Introduction (1h30).
2 - Overall panorama of history of technology (6h)
3 - Case studies, via some selected texts (10h30).
4 - Some insights into the epistemology of history of science and technology.

Nothing special.

• JACOMY (Bruno), Une histoire des techniques, Seuil, Sciences, Paris, 1990.
• Recueil de textes, distribué en séance.

• ORAL : presentation of some selected texts as case studies ; collective evaluation per group.
• WRITTEN : answers to a short series of questions, leaning on the different resources (historical panorama, reference book of B. Jacomy, case studies); individual evaluation.

N1=(E1+TD1)/2
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