INCM 8000:Comparative Approaches to Knowledge

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the International Conflict Management PhD program
This course explores a range of historical topics, conceptual frameworks, and terminologies that students need in order to understand and evaluate knowledge and approaches to scholarship produced in the social sciences and the humanities and to engage in interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary research. The course covers relevant themes in philosophy and history of science and sociology of knowledge as well as associated fields such as epistemology, science and technology studies, and rhetoric of science.