AQS00501 Topics in History of Science

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code AQS00501 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name Topics in History of Science （科学史の諸問題）

Subject Name
（Katakana）カガクシノショモンダイ

Subject Name in
English Topics in History of Science

Instructor NAKAO MAIKA

Instructor
(Katakana) ナカオ　マイカ

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (3T) Weds1-2：IAS K208

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction E : English

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities

Course Area（Discipline） 08 : History of Science and Technology

Eligible Students

Keywords

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.

Integrated Global Studies
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline This course explores ethical responses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and beyond, while investigating political, social, and religious structures that have constituted the atom bomb discourse. We begin with examinations of the actual historical events, which will provide a basis for further discussion of present-day issues surrounding nuclear weaponry. Despite the recent discussions of nuclear arms upon international relations, our knowledge of nuclear weaponry is often quite limited. This course not only fill the divergence of the upheaval of the current situation and our understanding of this weaponry, but also discuss how and why such information gap emerged and exists. Accordingly, the course covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including the fact of the bombings—its force and influence from a historical perspective; the intellectual history of war, peace, and the justification of nuclear weaponry, as well as various religious traditions’ address on the contemporary issue of nuclear arms, particularly in relation to current issues of terrorism, conflict, and war.
※This course will be held jointly with the DePaul University’s Short-Term Study Abroad Program "Ethics and Cultural Representations of the Atomic Age." (Instructors: Yuki Miyamoto and Nobuko Chikamatsu)

Class Schedule lesson1: Introduction: The Shadow of Oppenheimer
lesson2: Japan’s Colonial Subjects and the American Gaze
lesson3: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity around the Bomb
lesson4: Religious Understanding of the Bomb for the Greater Good? Responsibilities of Scientists
lesson5: For the Greater Good? Responsibilities of Scientists
lesson6: Environmental Colonialism
lesson7: Summary

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Barton Bernstein “A Postwar Myth: 500,000 U.S. Lives Saved” (pp. 130-134); Adam Goodheart, “The Invasion That Never Was” from Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (pp. 135-140); and excerpts from Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb (pp.13-37).
Lisa Yoneyama, “Memory Matters: Hiroshima’s Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity” fro Living with the Bomb (pp. 202-231); Sodei Rinjiro, “Were We the Enemy?: American Hibakusha” from Living with the Bomb (pp. 232-259); David Serlin, “The Clean Room/Domesticating the Hiroshima Maidens” (https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/serlin.php).
Charles B. Strozier and Laura Simich, “Christian Fundamentalism and Nuclear Threat” (pp. 81-96); excerpts from Nagai Takashi, The Bells of Nagasaki (pp. 99-110); Shigenobu Koji’s testimony (pp.1-8).
More information will be provided in the class.

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details)

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Advices will be given in each class.

Requirements

Grading Method Class participation and report.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	AQS00501	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Topics in History of Science （科学史の諸問題）
Subject Name （Katakana）	カガクシノショモンダイ
Subject Name in English	Topics in History of Science
Instructor	NAKAO MAIKA
Instructor (Katakana)	ナカオ　マイカ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, 3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(3T) Weds1-2：IAS K208
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)

Credits	1.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	08 : History of Science and Technology
Eligible Students
Keywords
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. Integrated Global Studies （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	This course explores ethical responses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and beyond, while investigating political, social, and religious structures that have constituted the atom bomb discourse. We begin with examinations of the actual historical events, which will provide a basis for further discussion of present-day issues surrounding nuclear weaponry. Despite the recent discussions of nuclear arms upon international relations, our knowledge of nuclear weaponry is often quite limited. This course not only fill the divergence of the upheaval of the current situation and our understanding of this weaponry, but also discuss how and why such information gap emerged and exists. Accordingly, the course covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including the fact of the bombings—its force and influence from a historical perspective; the intellectual history of war, peace, and the justification of nuclear weaponry, as well as various religious traditions’ address on the contemporary issue of nuclear arms, particularly in relation to current issues of terrorism, conflict, and war. ※This course will be held jointly with the DePaul University’s Short-Term Study Abroad Program "Ethics and Cultural Representations of the Atomic Age." (Instructors: Yuki Miyamoto and Nobuko Chikamatsu)
Class Schedule	lesson1: Introduction: The Shadow of Oppenheimer lesson2: Japan’s Colonial Subjects and the American Gaze lesson3: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity around the Bomb lesson4: Religious Understanding of the Bomb for the Greater Good? Responsibilities of Scientists lesson5: For the Greater Good? Responsibilities of Scientists lesson6: Environmental Colonialism lesson7: Summary
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Barton Bernstein “A Postwar Myth: 500,000 U.S. Lives Saved” (pp. 130-134); Adam Goodheart, “The Invasion That Never Was” from Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy (pp. 135-140); and excerpts from Paul Fussell, Thank God for the Atom Bomb (pp.13-37). Lisa Yoneyama, “Memory Matters: Hiroshima’s Korean Atom Bomb Memorial and the Politics of Ethnicity” fro Living with the Bomb (pp. 202-231); Sodei Rinjiro, “Were We the Enemy?: American Hibakusha” from Living with the Bomb (pp. 232-259); David Serlin, “The Clean Room/Domesticating the Hiroshima Maidens” (https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/serlin.php). Charles B. Strozier and Laura Simich, “Christian Fundamentalism and Nuclear Threat” (pp. 81-96); excerpts from Nagai Takashi, The Bells of Nagasaki (pp. 99-110); Shigenobu Koji’s testimony (pp.1-8). More information will be provided in the class.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Advices will be given in each class.
Requirements
Grading Method	Class participation and report.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Back to syllabus main page