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STS 001 Technology in American History
See description for subject STS 001 under HASS-D Category 5, Historical Studies.
D. Fitzgerald
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Professor's statement about the class. (QuickTime: 3549k)
STS 002 Toward the Scientific Revolution
STS 003 The Rise of Modern Science
See description for subject STS 003 under HASS-D Category 5, Historical Studies.
L. E. Kay
STS 009 Military Enterprise and Technological Change
Social Study of Science and Technology
STS 011 American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices
STS 012J Engineers, Scientists, and Public Controversies
Investigates the nature of controversies surrounding the applications of science and technology, the roles technical specialists play in their resolution, and patterns of public participation. Students analyze the technical, social, political, and ethical context of public controversies through case studies documented by archival videotapes, readings, and testimony of guests. Cases include past and current local, national, and international environmental controversies, nuclear energy and waste, community perceptions of risk, and the relations among experts, regulators, lawyers, and citizens.
C. Weiner
STS 019 The Profession of Engineering
Advanced Undergraduate Subjects
History of Science and Technology
STS 021 Russian Science, Technology, and Society
STS 025J Seminar in the Historical and Political Evolution of Russia
STS 029J The Civil War and Reconstruction
See description under subject 21H 116J.
M. R. Smith
STS 031 The History of Epidemic Diseases: From Plague to AIDS
STS 040 Change in Medieval Society: Did Technology Play a Part?
STS 045 History of Developmental Biology
STS 050J Women and Health in America
Examines the relationship between women and the health care system in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Focuses on contemporary and historical discussions of the medicalization of female biology. Topics include the history of women in the medical and health care professions; diseases that disproportionately affect women, such as breast cancer; women in the AIDS epidemic; women of color in the health care system; and the evolution of the feminist health movement.
E. M. Hammonds
Social Study of Science and Technology
STS 054 Biotechnology and Society
STS 059 Introduction to Cultural Criticism
Meets with graduate subject STS 507J, but assignments differ. See description under subject STS 507J.
H. Gusterson
STS 060J Gender, Technology, and Computer Culture
STS 065 Identity and the Internet
Examines empirical and theoretical literature that illuminates how new technologies have historically changed our ideas about and experience of personal identity, particularly the experience of identity on the Internet and the social psychology of virtual communities. Readings examine traditional perspectives on identity and their challenges in theories of decentered and multiple identity. Also included are writings on postmodern identity theory, the idea of person-as-cyborg, artificial intelligence and its challenge to the vision of the human self, and science fiction as it reflects notions of human and machine identity.
S. R. Turkle
STS 068J Big Plans
STS 071J US General Purpose Forces
See description under subject 17.483J.
B. Posen, T. Postol
STS 075J Technology and Culture
See description under subject 21A 340J.
H. Gusterson
STS 076J Technology and Policy of Weapons Systems
STS 080 The Work of Scientists and Engineers
STS 082J Science, Technology, and American Government
STS 083J Gender and Science
STS 084J Public Policy and Climate Change
STS 085J Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier
Special Topics
STS 091 Reading Seminar in Humanities, Science, and Technology I
STS 092 Reading Seminar in Humanities, Science, and Technology II
Reading and discussion of major primary and secondary works that illustrate or examine the interactions of science, technology, and society.
Consult L. L. Bucciarelli.
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