Teaching
Professor Gordin has taught lecture courses in the history of modern science, technology and society, and translation in the history of science, and seminars on nuclear-weapons history, the history of pseudoscience, the Soviet science system, and biography. Downloadable syllabi for select past courses are available below.
Undergraduate lectures
HIS 398: The Einstein Era
HIS 391: History of Contemporary Science
HIS 292: Science and the Modern World
HUM 305 / TRA 306 / ECS 305: Imagined Languages, taught with Joshua Katz
Undergraduate seminars
HIS 498: History of Pseudoscience
FRS 173: Einstein
HIS 497: Nuclear History
HIS 495: The Soviet Science System
Graduate seminars
HIS / HOS 595: Introduction to the Historiography of Science
HIS / HOS 599: Global Science
HIS / HOS 553: Boundaries of Knowledge in the European Context
HIS / HOS 599: Biography