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S&TS Undergraduate Curriculum - 2009/2010

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I. FIRST-YEAR WRITING SEMINARS (may be used as prerequisite for the major)

FALL

	STS 1123 Technology and Society Topics: Do Cyborgs Have Ethics? Social and Ethical Issues in Science Fiction
	3 Credits. TR: 8:40-9:55. D. Thompson

	STS 1123 Technology and Society Topics: Culture of Transportation or a Mobile Utopia? Society and the Technologies of Displacement
	3 Credits. MW: 8:40-9:55. V. Marquez

[STS 1123] Technology and Society Topics

[STS 1126] Science and Society Topics

[STS 1126] Science & Society Topics

SPRING

[STS 1112] Bugs & Bombs: Thinking about Bioterrorism Threats in a Post 9-11 World

	STS 1123 Technology & Society Topics: Artists of Science
	3 Credits. MW: 2:55-4:10. H. Rogers

[STS 1123] Technology & Society Topics

	STS 1126 Science & Society Topics: Being Sick in Modern America: Defining Illness and Marketing Drugs
	3 Credits. TR: 11:40-12:55. I. Naveh-Benjamin

[STS 1126] Science & Society Topics

II. INTRODUCTORY COURSE (may count towards major requirements only if taken as a prerequisite prior to applying or within first two semesters in the major)

FALL

[STS 1101] Science and Technology in the Public Arena

SPRING

	STS 1102 Histories of the Future
	3 Credits. MWF: 11:15-12:05. R. Prentice

[STS 1102] Histories of the Future

III. CORE COURSE (required)

SPRING

	STS 2011 What is Science? An Introduction to the Social Studies of Science & Technology
	3 Credits. MW: 10:10-11:00 + Section. K. Vogel

[STS 2011] What is Science? An Introduction to the Social Studies of Science & Technology

IV. S&TS COURSES (three additional 2000 level courses, and four 3000 level courses or above with a minimum of two at the 4000 level or higher, to total 34 credits))

FALL

[BSOC/BSOC 4711] The Dark Side of Biology: Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, & Biocriminality

[BSOC/STS 2051] Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

	BSOC/STS 2051 Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
	4 Credits. TR: 10:10-11:25 + Section. S. Hilgartner

[STS 2121] Sophomore Seminar: Sound Studies

	STS 2331 Agriculture, History, and Society: From Squanto to Biotechnology
	3 Credits. MWF: 12:20-1:10. M. Rossiter

[STS 2501] Technology in Society

	STS 2501 Technology in Society
	3 Credits. MWF: 10:10-11:00. R. Kline

[STS 2811] Science in Western Civilization: Medieval and Early-Modern Europe up to Isaac Newton

[STS 2871] Evolution

	STS 2871 Evolution
	3 Credits. TR: 10:10-11:00 + Section. W. Provine

[BSOC/STS 3011] Life Sciences and Society

	BSOC/STS 3011 Life Sciences and Society
	4 Credits. TR: 2:55-4:10. M. Lynch

	STS 3181 Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology and Risk
	4 Credits. MWF: 9:05-9:55. S. Pritchard

[BSOC/STS 3271] Politics of Environmental Protection & Policy

[STS 3301] Making Modern Science

	STS 3301 Making Modern Science
	4 Credits. TR: 11:40-12:55. S. Seth

[STS 3331] Genomics and Society

	BSOC/STS 3431 Biotechnology and the Economy
	4 Credits. MW: 2:55-4:10. J. Reppy

[STS 3451] Revolution in Science

	STS 3460 Anthropology of the Body
	4 Credits. TR: 1:25-2:40. S. Langwick

[STS 3521] Science Writing for the Mass Media

[STS 3551] Computers: From the 17C. to the Dot.Com Boom

[STS 3571] Engineering in American Culture

[STS 3811] Philosophy of Science: Knowledge and Objectivity

	STS 3811 Philosophy of Science: Knowledge and Objectivity
	4 Credits. W: 7:30-9:25pm. R. Boyd

[STS 3811] Philosophy of Science: Knowledge and Objectivity

[STS 3901] Science in the American Polity: 1800-1960

[STS 4011] Genomics and Society

[BSOC/STS 4031] Environmental Governance

[STS 4101] Social Studies as Science

[BSOC/STS 4121] Science, Technology, and Culture

	BSOC/STS 4131 Comparative Environmental History
	4 Credits. W: 12:20-2:15. S. Pritchard

[STS 4151] Environmental Interventions

[BSOC/STS 4181] Confluence: Environmental History and Science & Technology Studies

	STS 4221 New York Women
	4 Credits. T: 12:20-2:15. M. Rossiter

[STS 4291] Politics of Science

	STS 4311 From Surgery to Simulation
	4 Credits. T: 10:10-12:05. R. Prentice

[BSOC/STS 4381] Environments & Waterscapes

[BSOC/STS 4421] The Sociology of Science

[BSOC/STS 4471] Seminar in the History of Biology

	BSOC/STS 4471 Seminar in the History of Biology
	4 Credits. TBA. W. Provine

[STS 4681] Understanding Innovation

[STS 4731] Knowledge and Politics in Seventeenth Century England

[STS 4831] The Military and New Technology

[STS 4931] Economics Meets Science Studies

[STS 4951] Social Studies of the Human Sciences

	STS 4951 Social Studies of the Human Sciences
	4 Credits. W: 2:30-4:25. C. Leuenberger

SPRING

	BSOC/STS 2061 Ethics and the Environment
	4 Credits. TR: 10:10-11:25 + Section. S. Pritchard

[BSOC/STS 2061] Ethics and the Environment

	STS 2821 Science in Western Civilization: Newton to Darwin, Darwin to Einstein
	4 Credits. MW: 11:15-12:05 + Section. S. Seth

[STS 2821] Science in Western Civilization: Newton to Darwin, Darwin to Einstein

	STS 2851 Communication in the Life Sciences
	3 Credits. MWF: 10:10-11:00. B. Lewenstein

[STS 2851] Communication in the Life Sciences

	STS 2861 Science and Human Nature
	4 Credits. TR: 11:40-12:55 + Section. R. Boyd

[STS 2861] Science and Human Nature

	STS 2921 Inventing an Information Society
	3 Credits. MWF: 10:10-11:00. R. Kline

[STS 2921] Inventing an Information Society

[STS 3111] Sociology of Medicine

	STS 3111 Sociology of Medicine
	4 Credits. MWF: 11:15-12:05. C. Leuenberger

[STS 3221] Lives of Scientists and Engineers

	STS 3241 Environment and Society
	3 Credits. TR: 2:55-4:10. G. Gillespie

[STS 3241] Environment and Society

[BSOC/STS 3311] Environmental Governance

[STS 3421] An Introduction to the Sociology of Science

[STS 3491] Media Technologies

[STS 3521] Science Writing for the Mass Media

[STS 3541] The Sociology of Contemporary Culture

	STS 3561 Computing Cultures
	4 Credits. MW: 2:55-4:10. R. Prentice

[STS 3561] Computing Cultures

	STS 3601 Ethical Issues in Engineering
	3 Credits. TR: 1:25-2:40. P. Doing

[STS 3601] Ethical Issues in Engineering

[STS 3621] Medicine and Health Care in History

[STS 3871] The Automatic Lifestyle: Consumer Culture and Technology

[STS 3911] Science in the American Polity: 1960- Now

	STS 4001 Components and Systems: Engineering in a Social Context
	3 Credits. TBA. Z. Warhaft

[BSOC/STS 4021] Bodies in Medicine, Science, and Technology

	BSOC/STS 4071 Law, Science and Public Values
	4 Credits. TR: 2:55-4:10. M. Lynch

[BSOC/STS 4071] Law, Science and Public Values

[STS 4091] From the Phonograph to Techno

[STS 4111] Knowledge, Technology and Property

[STS 4120] The Scientific Revolution in Early-Modern Europe

[BSOC/STS 4171] Science, Religion, and the Humanities Since Darwin

	BSOC/STS 4231 Gender and Technology
	4 Credits. R: 12:20-2:15. S. Pritchard

[BSOC/STS 4231] Gender and Technology

[BSOC/STS 4241] Medicine, Science and the Body in Postcolonial Africa

	STS 4331 International History of Science
	4 Credits. T: 12:20-2:15. M. Rossiter

[STS 4331] International History of Science

[BSOC/STS 4341] Science and Empire: The Case of Britain and India

	BSOC/STS 4361 Link, Network, Nexu
	4 Credits. R: 2:30-4:25. B. Massumi

	STS 4441 Historical Issues of Gender and Science
	4 Credits. W: 12:20-2:15. M. Rossiter

[STS 4441] Historical Issues of Gender and Science

[BSOC/STS 4461] Biomedical Ethics

	STS 4531 Knowledge and Society
	4 Credits. T: 2:30-4:25. C. Leuenberger

[STS 4531] Knowledge and Society

[STS 4581] Intelligibility in Science

[BSOC/STS 4641] Madness to Mental Illness in American Cultural History

	STS 4661 Public Communication of Science & Technology
	3 Credits. MW: 2:55-4:10. Staff

[STS 4661] Public Communication of Science & Technology

[STS 4671] Innovation: Theory and Policy

	STS 4701 Hunger Amidst Surplus: A Political Ecology of Food and the Environment
	4 Credits. R: 10:10-12:05. M. Chappell

[STS 4721] Science & Crime: Historical Perspectives

	STS 4751 Science, Race, and Colonialism
	4 Credits. W: 2:30-4:25. S. Seth

[STS 4751] Science, Race, and Colonialism

	STS 4811 Philosophy of Science
	4 Credits. W: 7:30-9:30pm. R. Boyd / A. Chignell

[STS 4811] Philosophy of Science

[STS 4871] Seminar in the History of the Environment

[BSOC/STS 4901] The Integrity of Scientific Practice

	BSOC/STS 4911 Vitality and Power in China
	4 Credits. T: 2:30-4:25. T. Hinrichs

[STS 4921] Politics and the Public Health

	BSOC/STS 4921 The History of Reason
	4 Credits. M: 12:20-2:15. P. Dear

[BSOC/STS 4961] Medicine & Healing in China

SUMMER

[STS 2871] Evolution

	STS 2871 Evolution
	3 Credits. TR: 10:10-11:00 + Section. W. Provine

[BSOC/STS 4271] Politics of Environmental Protection in America

[BSOC/STS 4471] Seminar in the History of Biology

	BSOC/STS 4471 Seminar in the History of Biology
	4 Credits. TBA. W. Provine

V. OTHER (Independent Study, Honors)

FALL

	STS 3991 Independent Study
	1-4 Credits. . Staff

[STS 3991] Independent Study

	STS 3991 Independent Study
	1-4 Credits. . Staff

[BSOC/STS 4991] Honors Project I

	BSOC/STS 4991 Honors Project I
	8 Credits. . Staff

SPRING

[STS 3991] Independent Study

	BSOC/STS 4991 Honors Project II
	8 Credits. . Staff

[BSOC/STS 4991] Honors Project II

SUMMER

[BSOC/STS 1451] Body, Mind and Health

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