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3.00 Credits
This course explores how the health impacts of environmental problems are understood and responded to through medical, legal, and regulatory intervention. Case studies are used to highlight different strategies for dealing with environmental illness, comparing the perspectives of affected people, medical professionals, lawyers, government officials, industry representatives, and media. A core component of the course is devoted to problems related to exposure to toxic chemicals, including readings on popular epidemiology, mass torts, transboundary victimization and medical rehabilitation models. When Offered: Fall term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Conducted in conjunction with STSS 4540, with additional graduate-level readings and assignments. When Offered: Spring term alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
Conducted in conjunction with STSS 4560. Additional graduate-level readings will focus on the impact of feminist theory on science and technology studies, and students are required to write a research paper. When Offered: Offered on the availability instructor. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
This introductory seminar in the Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy Professional Master's Program surveys the theories, methods, and world views of the approaches of ecological economics and science and technology studies to social scientific and humanistic environmental inquiry. Topics include: valuation, social construction, market failure, cultural studies, externalities, environmental policy and politics, Pareto optimality, and environmental ethics and philosophy. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
A graduate, seminar-style review of the extant interpretations of the history of science and technology in Western Civilization since the mid-1700s. Emphasis on historiographic mastery. Preparation of a bibliographic essay tailored to the student's concentration. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: graduate standing in STS or permission of instructor. When Offered: Alternate years. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the development of practical proposals for responding to environmental problems and opportunities. Research projects will include both primary data collection and the formulation of policy recommendations. Course readings will focus on case studies that involve disputes over environmental and economic issues, providing the basis for class discussion about how such disputes can be documented, analyzed and resolved through various scientific, legal, managerial, and policy initiatives. Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: EEVP Professional Master's students or permission of instructor. When Offered: Fall term. Credit Hours: 3
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
With an individual faculty member on an agreed-upon topic. Credit Hours: 1 to 3
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics. Credit Hours: 3
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3 to 6
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Active participation in research, under the supervision of a faculty adviser, leading to a master's thesis. Grades of IP are assigned until the thesis has been approved by the faculty adviser and accepted by the Office of Graduate Education to be archived in a standard format in the library. . Graded: Grades will then be listed as S Credit Hours: 1 to 9
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