As noted above, to complete the STS minor, students must take five
STS-area courses. Two of the five courses must be in two different
disciplines outside the student's major, and at least three of the five
courses must be upper level (300 level or above). The STS-area courses
include the following:
01:014:380 Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern (3)
01:050:314 Technology and Culture in America (3)
01:119:150 Biology, Society, and Biomedical Issues (3)
01:119:152 Biomedical Issues of AIDS (3)
01:119:154 Genetics, Law, and Social Policy (3)
01:119:160 Biology, Society, and Ecological Issues (3)
01:160:140 The Greenhouse Effect (3) (Credit not given for both
this course and 01:450:140, 01:556:140, or 01:750:140)
04:192:347 Information Systems and Communication (3)
04:192:446 Communication and Social Change (3)
04:192:449 Telecommunication Processes and Policy (3)
01:198:405 Seminar in Computers and Society (3)
01:220:316 Health Economics (3)
01:220:332 Environmental Economics (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 11:373:363)
01:351:349 Literary and Scientific Writings (3)
11:373:363 Environmental Economics (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 01:220:332)
01:450:102 Transforming the Global Environment (3)
01:450:140 The Greenhouse Effect (3) (Credit not given for both
this course and 01:160:140, 01:556:140, or 01:750:140)
01:450:211 Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (3)
01:450:370 Global and Regional Climate Change (3)
01:450:470 History and Theory of Geography (3)
01:506:251 History of Science and Society (3)
01:506:253 History of Technology and Society (3)
01:512:121 Health and Environment in America (3)
01:512:236 Edison and His Era (3)
01:512:326 Technology and Society in America (3)
01:512:328 Science in American Culture (3)
01:512:395 The Electric Century (3)
01:556:140 The Greenhouse Effect (3) (Credit not given for both
this course and 01:160:140, 01:450:140, or 01:750:140)
01:730:225 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (3)
01:730:249 Medical Ethics (3)
01:730:329 Minds, Machines, and Persons (3)
01:730:424 The Logic of Decision (3)
01:730:425 Philosophy of Science (3)
01:730:426 Philosophy of Physics (3)
01:750:109 Astronomy and Cosmology I (3)
01:750:110 Astronomy and Cosmology II (3)
01:750:140 The Greenhouse Effect (3) (Credit not given for both
this course and 01:160:140, 01:450:140, or 01:556:140)
11:776:170 Plants and People (3)
01:840:334 Healing: Sacred and Secular (3)
01:840:344 Religion and Technological Society (3)
01:840:348 Ethical Problems in Medicine (3)
01:840:352 Religion and Science (3)
01:920:210 Sociology of Medicine and Health Care (3)
01:920:331 Sociology of Industry (3)
01:988:240 Gender and Science (3)
Mathematics Requirement
To complete the STS minor requirement, students must show some
familiarity with mathematics, usually by the end of the junior year.
The mathematics requirement ordinarily may be fulfilled by placing into
CALC3, or by placing into CALC2 and taking one of the following courses
(other than Calculus I), or by taking two of the following courses:
1. 01:640:103, 104, or any mathematics course of 3 credits or more at the level of 135 or above;
2. 01:198:111, 112, 205, 206, 211, or any computer science course of 4 credits at the level of 314 or above;
3. Any statistics course at the level of 211 or above; or
4. 01:730:201 Introduction to Logic.
Science Requirement
As noted above, to complete the minor requirement, students must show
some familiarity with science, ordinarily by the end of the junior
year. The science requirement may be fulfilled by completing two
courses of 3 or more credits in a single science, where at least one
course has a significant laboratory component. This ordinarily shall be
done by taking one of the laboratory-based two-course sequences in life
sciences, chemistry, geology, or physics; but in any event, the courses
selected for fulfillment of the science requirement must be approved by
the program director or a program adviser.
