STS-Area Courses

To complete the science, technology, and society (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)

  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)

  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)

  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)

  04:192:347  Information Systems and Communication (3)

  04:192:446  Communication and Social Change (3)

  04:192:449  Telecommunication Processes and Policy (3)

  11:776:170  Plants and People (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

To complete the STS 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.