[tt] QUERY: DEPARTMENT OF DARWIN (or evolutionary) STUDIES

Premise Checker <checker at panix.com> on Sun Jun 24 20:46:09 UTC 2007

DEPARTMENT OF DARWIN (or evolutionary) STUDIES

Does anyone know of any such animal? I mean where one can get a degree 
(BA, MA, PhD) that requires courses across the curriculum that deal with 
the insights of Darwinism in the respective fields, like Darwinian 
Psychology, Darwinian Politics, Evolutionary Economics, etc. There are 
courses and books along these lines, but I know of no interdisciplinary 
degree. If such a department exists, it will be the first field to stretch 
across the sciences and humanities.

There are programs in evolutionary studies at the University of Chicago 
and one in Japan, but they are ensconced in the biology department.

Binghamton University offers a certificate (both at the undergraduate and 
graduate level) for having taken a certain number of fine courses on 
evolutionary applications in various departments, but one does not earn a 
degree.

While I would like to know about other such examples, I am looking for an 
actual degree and and actual department.

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