| Course title | Laboratory Life: Biology under the scrutiny of sociologists and philosophers |
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| Course code | KOL/LAZ |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminary |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
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The seminar will focus on studying texts by sociologists, philosophers, and historiographers of biology written between the 1970s and 1990s. The aim of the course will be to distinguish between the ways philosophers and sociologists view biology and biologists. We will interpret interesting texts that depict biology as a changing social institution and biologists as rival and sometimes quarreling actors in scientific disputes. We will touch on topics in which we recognize significant problems in the history of science. For example, eugenics, in the case of the rivalry between statistical biologists and geneticists in Great Britain in the early 20th century. Or behaviorism and memory transfer in flatworms in research in the 1950s. Or anthropological research that viewed laboratory workers in the 1970s as members of an indigenous tribe. But we will also notice how the researchers being studied rebel, "rise up from their Petri dishes" and call on sociologists to let them have their say on the sociology of science itself. The course is also intended to serve as a research platform for curious students. Expert guests representing the views of biologists (of various specializations), sociologists, philosophers, and historiographers will regularly attend the seminars.
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Dialog
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): General Linguistics and Communication Theory (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Lingvistics and Digital Humanities (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |