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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
For students in STS honors program. Goal is submission of proposal. 1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
For students in STS honors program. Continued study and writing. 1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
For students in STS honors program. Final work on project. 1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
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3.00 Credits
Analytical and theoretical texts treating the natures and interplay of science, technology, and society. Prerequisite: STS major with senior standing and four STS core courses, or consent of instructor. 4 units, Win (Heise, U), Spr (Dupuy, J)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ENGR 130, STS 101.) Key social, cultural, and values issues raised by contemporary scientific and technological developments; distinctive features of science and engineering as sociotechnical activities; major influences of scientific and technological developments on 20th-century society, including transformations and problems of work, leisure, human values, the fine arts, and international relations; ethical conflicts in scientific and engineering practice; and the social shaping and management of contemporary science and technology. 4-5 units, Aut (McGinn, R)
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3.00 Credits
Ethical issues raised by advances in science and technology. Topics: biotechnology including agriculture and reproduction, the built environment, energy technologies, and information technology. Prerequisite: 110 or another course in ethics. Limited enrollment. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, Spr (McGinn, R), alternate years, not given this year
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HISTORY 257, HISTORY 347.) The WW II decision to build and use the atomic bomb. The controversy over the H-bomb. The Oppenheimer loyalty-security case and the relationship of scientist to the state. Medical experimentation on humans and pitfalls of technology. Relations among science, technology, and university. GER:DB-Hum 4-5 units, not given this year
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as HISTORY 241G, HISTORY 341G, STS 134.) Technological, medical, philosophical, and scientific history of the five senses, drawing upon readings from antiquity to the present. How physiologists and philosophers have explained the functioning of the senses; how doctors have tampered with them both to help and to hinder; and how technologies including medical devices, scientific instruments, and tools of the arts have continually transformed the nature and experience of sensation. 4-5 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as STS 180.) The theme of revolution in th epopular imagination about computing. How people imagine themselves as members of a global network society, navigating cyberspace and pioneering a bold, new information age. But where did modern information technology come from Has it brought about revolution, and if so for whom The cultural and political visions that shaped modern computing, and how the resulting technology has shaped a globalizing sociopolitical order. 4 units, Spr (Slayton, R)
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