Course code 07 59 3713 60
ECTS credits 2
Course title in the language of instruction 
Great Moments in Science and Technology
Course title in Polish Great Moments in Science and Technology (Przełomowe odkrycia w nauce i technice)
Course title in English 
Great Moments in Science and Technology
Language of instruction English
Course level first-cycle programme
Course coordinator dr inż. Łukasz Piskorski
Course instructors dr inż. Magdalena Włodarska
Delivery methods and course duration
Lecture Tutorials Laboratory Project Seminar Other Total of teaching hours during semester
Contact hours 30 0 30
E-learning No No No No No No
Assessment criteria (weightage) 1.00 0.00
Course objective
  1. Familiarize students with views on phenomena in the world around us as well as theories and research methods used in various periods of history.
  2. Familiarize students with the evolutionary development of science and contribution of leading scientists to this development.
  3. Form abilities of students in analysis and evaluation experimental methods used in various periods of history.
  4. Encourage students to deepen their knowledge of the history of science.
Learning outcomes 
  1. Understanding the need to gain knowledge through the whole life. FT1A_K01
  2. Understanding that scientific knowledge is not completely discovered, and that the science is evolving. FT1A_K02
  3. Ability to find information in the literature, also in foreign language. FT1A_K08
  4. Ability to deliver an oral presentation in English on a topic connected with the development of science and technology. FT1A_U12
Assessment methods 
Outcomes 1-2: class discussions.
Outcomes 1-4: preparation of presentations and delivery of oral presentations.
Prerequisites 
Knowledge of the fundamentals of physics.
Course content with delivery methods 
LECTURES
1. Prehistory of Science
2. The Beginnings of the Natural Sciences.
3. Science in the Middle Ages
4. The Beginning and Development of Modern Science
5. Science in the Age of Enlightenment
6. Science in the XIX century.
7. Science in the XX-XXI centuries.
Basic reference materials 
  1.  A. K. Wróblewski, Historia fizyki, PWN, Warszawa, 2006.
Other reference materials 
  1.  L. Lederman, D. Teresi, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, Dell Publishing, New York, 1993.
  2.  A. K. Wróblewski, Prawda i mity w fizyce, Iskry, Warszawa, 1987.
  3.  A. K. Wróblewski, Uczeni w anegdocie, Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa, 1999.
  4.  A. Drzewiński, J. Wojtkiewicz, Opowieści z historii fizyki, PWN, Warszawa, 2001
  5.  R. P. Brennan, Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century, Wiley, New York, 1997.
  6.  A. Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Arkana/Penguin, London, 1990.
  7.  F. E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1968.
  8.  J. Gleick, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Pantheon Books, New York, 1992.
Average student workload outside classroom 
28
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