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  • STS 464: Human Factors Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course will provide an overview of the field of human factors, including two major components: (1) a background in specific content areas of psychology that have direct relevance to the field and (2) a survey of direct applications of these areas to real-world problems. The content areas include research methods, sensory and perceptual processes, learning and memory, human information processing, decision making. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internet/E-mail CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • STS 484: Technological Risk and Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    An exploration of how technology, social/political mechanisms, and human behavior interact. Topics include: How do lay people view the risks of nuclear power, genetic engineering, and other new technologies? How "rational" are their perceptions? What is the role of human behavior in causing technological accidents and catastrophes? How can complex technologies best be managed and regulated in a democratic society? (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • STS 485: Philosophy of Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    A critical study of the foundations of the sciences, natural and social, with emphasis on the following topics: the nature of scientific method, theories and explanation, probability and determinism, the unity of the sciences. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • STS 488: Env Lit & Reps of Nature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    An interdisciplinary study of the ways in which the relationship between "nature" and humankind has been represented in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Emphasis on American and British texts of the 19th and 20th centuries, but assigned materials may include readings from other cultures and historical periods. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • URS 300: Urban and Regional Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    In this course we will explore the field of urban and regional studies. The scope of readings is inter-disciplinary, spanning the environmental, aesthetic, social, economic, geographic, historical, political and cultural aspects of cities, suburbs and regions. The interrelationship between the spatial organization of a city, patterns of social and economic inequality, delivery of services, the relationship between culture and public space, as well as the processes of urban and regional change will all be considered. Problems such as race and class inequality will also be examined. Special attention will be given to issues of relevance in the Detroit metropolitan region (e.g. spatial, economic, cultural, political and social impacts of the loss of manufacturing jobs). Students will be introduced to methods of social scientific analysis and will begin to apply those methods to researching urban and regional community groups, enterprises and social movements. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Discussion, Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • URS 450: Sr Capstone in Community Rsrch

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    The capstone course is designed to assist students in integrating the concepts, theories, and methods of inquiry or urban studies into research for or in the surrounding metropolitan area. Open to students in urban and regional studies who have completed their community-based learning requirement for the concentration. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • URS 499:

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Independent Study Readings, community-based research and analytical assignments in accordance with the needs and interests of the student and approval of the instructor. Students must submit a written proposal of study for approval. In addition, students electing to take this course in partial fulfillment of their community-based research must get approval from the Director of the Urban and Regional Studies program. (F,W,S) 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 275: Intro to Women's & Gender Stud

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course will be interdisciplinary and multicultural. An overview of the theories and topics in the Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences that are pertinent to upper division courses in Women's in Gender Studies will be covered. The course can be used as a prerequisite to upper division courses in Women's and Gender Studies. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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  • WGST 315: Body Image and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    This course examines the biological and sociocultural construction of body image in both men and women. We explore such cultural and social practices as nudity, tattooing, piercing, scarification, dietary habits, physical activity and sports performance and their associated myths and realities. We explore how the human body is a terrain of contested meaning within society. The course provides an examination of the causes and consequences of women's poor body image, contemporary and historically. Course materials include case studies from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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  • WGST 325: Gender and Science

    3.00 Credits
    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    Explores some of the history of women in science, the current status of women in science and feminism and science. Topics will include contributions made by women before science moved into the public sphere, cultural influences on decisions to make science a career and a feminist approach to scientific research. Discussion, lecture. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture CASL - Administration Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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