This paper clarifies what subjects and topics are taught in courses on the history of science and technology by analyzing text data of syllabi in Japan from academic year 2016. The author collected 835 different syllabi on the web that were provided by 309 universities in Japan. 63 percent of syllabi were provided by private universities and 31 percent by national universities. 15 universities offered more than 10 courses. Cluster analysis on syllabi reveals that the syllabi can be grouped by these ten topics: the history of technology, nuclear issues, STS, the origin of modern science, the history of astronomy and the Scientific Revolution, the history of medicine, the history of mathematics, the philosophy of science, modern physics, and the history of biology. 32.5 percent of the syllabi refer to science in ancient Greece. Also, almost 30 percent of the syllabi refer to current affairs such as nuclear issues and life science issues. The paradigm theory is taught not only in classes for the history of science, but also in classes for the philosophy of science. The similarity matrix of codes shows that the words which are related to “ancient Greece,” “the history of astronomy,” and “the history of classical mechanics” tend to appear in the same syllabus, and also “the Industrial Revolution,” “technological innovation,” “environmental issues,” and “military issues.” This analysis shows the diversity of the topics in the history of science and technology courses.
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