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4.00 Credits
A case study in the relationship of technology and society, involving off-campus field trips and focusing on the interaction of land, people and technology. By considering the natural landforms of the United States and other countries as appropriate, the students see how the nature of land determines its value. As technological innovations are made and introduced, old relationships with the land are altered, sometimes irreversibly. Through this study students have a concrete example of the positive and negative effects of technology on the social structure. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
Modern society is increasingly based on technology. With each advance due to technology, unanticipated problems are also introduced. Society must define and solve these problems or the advances may be diluted or lost. In this course we study several interactions between technology and the world in which we live. We investigate how various technologies developed and compare the expected effects of the new technologies with the actual results. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the science, technology, and policy minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
A study of the impact of science and technology on life, our view of life and of the value issues that arise from this impact. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the science, technology, and policy minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
Approaches the history of science through studying biographies of modern scientists. Modern science is understood to be science from the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present. Emphasis will be on recent scholarship devoted to analyzing science in context, i.e., the way it actually develops through the lives of individuals in particular social and political contexts. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the historical perspectives on science and technology minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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4.00 Credits
Allows for examination of a special problem or topical area in the field of science and technology studies. Topics and specific content and methods vary from year to year or term to term. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the science, technology, and policy minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
Using biographical and social-historical approaches, this course examines the history of women's involvement in science and engineering since the birth of modern science in the seventeenth century; the historical roots of gender bias in the Western scientific enterprise; and the influx of women into science and engineering since the mid-to-late twentieth century. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the historical perspectives on science and technology minor; the women and gender studies concentration and minor (0522-449); and may also be taken as an elective.. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of chemistry from antiquity to the present. Emphasis will be placed on developments since the Renaissance; on changing views of how matter is structured and how different substances react (or fail to react); and on the political, social and cultural contexts that influenced the rise of new chemical concepts and practices. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the historical perspectives on science and technology minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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4.00 Credits
The developing cybernetic organism or "cyborg" challenges traditional conceptsof what it means to be human. Today medical science and science fiction appear to merge in ways unimagined a century ago. By exploring scientific and cultural theories, science fiction, and public experience, this class examines the history and potential of the cyborg in Western cultures. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the importance of gender within Western science and technology. It considers how masculine and feminine identities are socially and culturally shaped, how sex and gender are being significantly transformed, and how rethinking gendered practices may help make science and technology fairer and more responsive. Part of the science and technology studies concentration; the science, technology and environmental studies minor; the women and gender studies concentration and minor (0522-450); and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the interdisciplinary foundations of environmental science via an analysis of sustainability. It will consist of one lecture and one lab per week. Labs will emphasize non-classroom based learning activities such as field trips. Initial course for the environmental science degree program. Part of the environmental studies concentration and minor; the science, technology, and environmental studies minor; and may also be taken as an elective. Class 2, Lab 4, Credit 4 (offered twice annually)
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