King’s offers three interdisciplinary programmes that allow you to engage more deeply with the questions that arise from FYP:
Combine study in these areas with a discipline-based program through Dalhousie to achieve a variety of perspectives tailored to your academic interests.
Each of these programmes leads to a combined honours degree, meaning it must be combined, or paired, with one of the programmes offered by King’s and Dalhousie’s shared faculties of Science or Arts & Social Sciences.
You can also take a minor in each honours programme to complement your degree.
Abagail Bumpus, a fourth-year History of Science and Technology (HOST) student and her partner, Guy Knapp, built a very hungry caterpillar automaton as their final project for the History of Automata seminar (HSTC 3011). Using cams (i.e. wheels with patterns cut into the edge) and cam followers (i.e. mechanisms to track the movement...
Excitement was brewing at King’s last night when students showcased their heritage homemade beers. “This is an exercise in historical research that has a material ‘culture’ to it,” said professor Dr. Ian Stewart about the History of Brewing (HSTC 3415) brew-off. “Every pint, at every moment of history including today, is all about the bigger picture: the social context, the cultural matrix, even economics—and certainly science.”
Dr. Noel Sharkey and Dr. Duncan MacIntosh—two of the world’s leading thinkers on the ethics, role and implications of autonomous weapons—faced off on March 21 to debate “War in the Age of Intelligent Machines.” The highlight of King’s 2018 Public Lecture Series, Automatons! From Ovid to AI, the event attracted a standing-room only audience of…
Automatons! From Ovid to AI Asian Robots & Orientalism Simon Kow, University of King’s College. The 2018 Lecture Series is made possible with assistance from…
Dalhousie Chinese Studies presents Universality, Cultural Difference, and the Construction of Philosophy as "Western" Dr. Franklin Perkins, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa,…
Automatons! From Ovid to AI War in the Age of Intelligent Machines Don’t miss Noel Sharkey, renowned professor of robotics and popular BBC commentator, and Duncan…