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  • STS 064J: DV Lab: Documenting Science through Video and New Media

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Introductory exploration of documentary film theory and production, focusing on documentaries about science, engineering, and related fields. Students engage in digital video production as well as social and media analysis of science documentaries. Readings drawn from social studies of science as well as from documentary film theory. Uses documentary video making as a tool to explore the worlds of science and engineering, as well as a tool for thinking analytically about media itself and the social worlds in which science is embedded. Class includes a lab component devoted to digital video production in addition to class time. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 065J: The Anthropology of Sound

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines the ways humans experience sound and how perceptions and technologies of sound emerge from cultural, economic, and historical worlds. Consider how the sound/noise boundary has been imagined, created, and modeled across sociocultural and scientific contexts. Learn how environmental, linguistic, and musical sounds are construed cross-culturally as well as the rise of telephony, architectural acoustics, sound recording, and the globalized travel of these technologies. Questions of sound ownership, property, authorship, and copyright in the digital age are also addressed. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 068J: Advanced DV Lab: Documenting Science through Video and New Media

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Advanced exploration of documentary film theory and production that offers a social scientific perspective on documentaries about science, engineering, and related fields. Student work focuses on final digital video projects. Discussion and readings tailored to the questions and issues raised by specific student projects; labs focus on the technical skills required to complete more advanced work. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite:    Prereq: 21A.339J or permission of instructor
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  • STS 070J: Language and Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines cultural impact of communication technologies, from basic literacy to cell phones, and computer-based social networks on patterns of verbal interaction. Introduces theories and methods of linguistic anthropology pertinent to technologies that make it possible for people to communicate across distances in space and time. Students develop their own research projects exploring the cultural dimensions of technologically enhanced communication. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 072J: Nuclear Forces and Missile Defenses

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Introduces the assessment of strategic nuclear forces. Emphasizes the development of force requirements. Methods for analyzing alternative force postures in terms of missions, effectiveness, and cost. The history of the US-Soviet strategic competition provides the backdrop against which the evolution of nuclear strategy and forces is considered. Students taking the graduate version are expected to complete additional assignments. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 074J: Art, Craft, Science

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines how people learn, practice, and evaluate traditional and contemporary craft techniques. Social science theories of design, embodiment, apprenticeship learning, skill, labor, expertise, and tacit knowledge are used to explore distinctions among art, craft, and science. Also discusses the commoditization of craft into market goods, collectible art, and tourism industries. Ethnographic and historical case studies include textiles, Shaker furniture, glassblowing, quilting, cheesemaking, industrial design, home and professional cooking, factory and laboratory work, CAD/CAM. Demonstrations, optional field trips, and/or hands-on craft projects may be included. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 075J: Technology and Culture

    2.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines the intersections of technology, culture, and politics in a variety of social and historical settings ranging from 19th-century factories to 21st-century techno dance floors, from Victorian London to anything-goes Las Vegas. Discussions and readings organized around three questions: what cultural effects and risks follow from treating biology as technology; how computers have changed the way we think about ourselves and others; and how politics are built into our infrastructures. Explores the forces behind technological and cultural change; how technological and cultural artifacts are understood and used by different communities; and whether, in what ways, and for whom technology has produced a better world. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 076J: Technology and Policy of Weapons Systems

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Examines in detail the technology of nuclear weapons systems. Topics include nuclear weapons design, effects, targeting, and delivery; ballistic and air breathing missile propulsion and guidance; communications and early warning techniques and systems; and anti-missile, air, and submarine systems. Combines the discussion of technical materials with the national security policy issues raised by the capabilities of these technologies. Considers security issues from the distinct and often conflicting perspectives of technologists, military planners, and political leaders. Subject fulfills the undergraduate public policy requirement in the Political Science major and minor. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 082J: Science, Technology, and Public Policy

    4.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Analysis of issues at the intersection of science, technology, public policy, and business. Cases drawn from antitrust and intellectual property rights; health and environmental policy; defense procurement and strategy; strategic trade and industrial policy; and R&D funding. Structured around theories of political economy, modified to take into account integration of uncertain technical information into public and private decision-making. Limited to 18. Prerequisite:    Prereq: None
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  • STS 085: Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier

    3.00 Credits
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Studies the growth of computer and communications technology and the new legal and ethical challenges that reflect tensions between individual rights and societal needs. Topics include computer crime; intellectual property restrictions on software; encryption, privacy, and national security; academic freedom and free speech. Students meet and question technologists, activists, law enforcement agents, journalists, and legal experts. Extensive use of the internet for readings and other materials. 6.805 meets with STS.085 but does not carry HASS credit. 6.805 may be used as an Engineering Concentration Elective. Enrollment limited. Prerequisite:    Prereq: Permission of instructor
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