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)

  01:050:455  Maritime Culture (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)

  01:160:127  Impact of Chemistry (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)
 
  01:190:327  Science in Ancient Greece and Rome (3)

  01:198:405  Seminar in Computers and Society (3)

  01:202:305  Scientific Applications in Justice I (3)

  01:202:306  Scientific Applications in Justice II (3)

  01:220:316  Health Economics (3)

  01:220:332  Environmental Economics (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 11:373:363)

  01:220:334  Energy Economics (3)

  01:220:342  Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property (3)

  01:351:312  Literature and Technology (3)
 
  01:351:335  Science Fiction (3)
 
  01:351:349  Literary and Scientific Writings (3)
 
  01:447:387  Genetics and Evolution: Historical Perspectives (3)

  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)

  01:506:252  History of Technology and Society I (3)

  01:506:253  History of Technology and Society II (3)

  01:506:321  Disease in History (3)

  01:506:322  Black Death to Obesity Epidemic: History of Public Health in the West (3)

  01:506:324  History of Aids Pandemic (3)

  01:506:335  Race and Science (3)

  01:508:328  History of Health and Healing in Africa (3)

  01:512:121  Health and Environment in America (3)

  01:512:236  Edison and His Era (3)

  01:512:321  Health Care and Society in America (3)

  01:512:328  Science in American Culture (3)

  01:512:395  The Electronic Century: Technology and Popular Culture (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)

  01:685:331  Impacts of Media Technologies and Globalization on the Middle East (3)

  01:730:225  Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (3)

  01:730:249  Bioethics (3)

  01:730:250  Environmental Ethics (3)

  01:730:261  Philosophical Ideas in Science Fiction (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)

  01:830:272  Drugs and Human Behavior (3)

  01:840:334  Healing: Sacred and Secular (3)

  01:840:352  Religion and Science (3)

  01:840:424  Seminar in Religion and Science (3)

  01:920:210  Sociology of Medicine and Health Care (3)

  01:920:331  Sociology of Industry (3)

  01:920:353  Sociology of Housing and the Built Environment (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)

  04:547:200  Social Informatics (3)

  04:547:340  Gender and Technology (3)

  04:567:330  Exploring New Media (3)

  05:300:361  Science: Knowledge and Literacy (3)

  10:762:350  Drugs, Culture, and Society (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 10:832:350)

  10:762:352  Cybercities (3)

  10:832:350  Drugs, Culture, and Society (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 10:762:350)

  11:373:363  Environmental Economics (3) (Credit not given for both this course and 01:220:332)

  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.