HSCI 101
Science, Technology, and Human Values Spring 2018
Division II
Cross-listed SOC 201 / SCST 101
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This course offers an introduction to science and technology studies, or STS. A radically interdisciplinary field of inquiry, the roots of STS stretch through the philosophy, history, and sociology/anthropology of science and technology. Students will become acquainted with major STS schools, methodological strategies and research trajectories through intensive reading and analysis of classical and contemporary works in the field. Considerable attention will be devoted to exploring the nature of science and technology, their relationships to and interactions with one another, society and the natural world, and the influences these interactions exert in shaping what humans value. A fundamental goal of the course is to cultivate awareness and understanding of the social organization of technology and scientific knowledge production, and the technoscientific structuring of modern social life broadly. The course as such is aimed at attracting from all divisions those students who are intellectually adventurous and inclined to think critically about the place and prominence of science and technology in the modern world.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20-25
Expected: 20
Class#: 3781
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: two or three short exercises, two papers (3-5 pages and 5-7 pages), and two hour exams
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: first-years and sophomores
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HSCI 101 Division II SOC 201 Division II SCST 101 Division II

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