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.
