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Course Requirements Course requirements provide a foundation for students in S&TS, covering
key questions and relevant research methods:
- All students are expected to take, prior to their A-exams, broadly based graduate level courses in three of four subject areas: history, philosophy, sociology, and politics of science and technology; a one semester seminar, S&TS 711, intended as an introduction to the field as a whole; and a one-semester seminar on methods. In addition, at least four of the courses taken during a student's first year should be designated as S&TS. The four courses include S&TS 711 and the methods course.
- By the time of the Advancement to Candidacy examination (A-Exam)
each student should have taken an approved graduate-level course or
its equivalent in three of the four major divisions of S&TS: history,
philosophy, politics, and sociology of science and technology. Given
the fundamentally integrative orientation of the field, the purpose of
this “distribution requirement” is to counteract too narrow a focus on
one disciplinary window in the field, and to bring home the point that
S&TS itself represents a move beyond the compartments within which
much topically relevant work still takes place. At the same time, this
requirement prepares students to work in departmental contexts more
closely affiliated with more established fields.
- Students are also expected to achieve a level of competence in at least one
foreign language sufficient for reading the scholarly literature in their research
area. A student’s special committee may, in some cases, require
additional languages. The special committee has discretion over the precise
means of demonstrating competence. The foreign language requirement
should be completed prior to the A-exam.
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