Requirements | Advising | Links Program in Science Technology and Values understanding scientific, technological and social change Science and technology are increasingly important sources of change in the world. The Program in Science, Technology and Values offers students the opportunity to examine historical, socio-political, cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of science and technology. It encourages both science and non-science students to analyze, in a focused way, the impact of science and technology on other social institutions and the impact of those institutions on science and technology.

Program Requirements

I. The science/math component

This can be accomplished by completing the Natural Science/ Mathematics distribution requirement or a science/math Major for students seeking a B.S. or by taking one course in addition to the distribution requirements for students seeking a B.A.
Courses which count as science/mathematics courses for the purposes of this science/math sequence include any courses in biology, chemistry, physics, earth and geographic sciences, environmental, coastal and ocean sciences, and courses at 130 level or above in mathematics and computer science. The following courses also count: Psychology 260, 270, 439, 466, 469, and 475 ; Anthropology 105 , 212, 241, and 316.

II. The science, technology, and values component

Area I: Philosophy and Values (at least two courses must be taken from this list)*
Phil 220, Environmental Ethics (HU)Spring 13
Phil 222, Moral Issues in Medicine (HU)
Phil 307, Technology and Values #
Phil 346, Philosophy of Science (HU)
Phil 481, Advanced Philosophy of Science #
Area II: History and Politics (at least two courses must be taken from this list)
EEOS 355, Historic Environments
EnvSty/PolSci 250L, Environmental Policymaking (SB)
EnvSty 246L, Environmental History (HU, US Div)
Hist 3xx, Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe
Hist 478, Sex and the Body in the Atlantic World
PolSci 240, Politics, Probability, and Human Health #
PolSci 348, Science and Public Policy #
PolSci 370, The Darwinian Revolution #
PolSci 367, Politics by Internet
(* Proposal under review [Feb. '13] for Areas I and II to be combined, so that four courses in the combined core area would be required.)
Area III: Electives in other fields of science and technology studies
Anth 263, Anthropology of the Environment
Anth 316, Nutrition, Growth and Behavior (NS)
Anth 317, Human Epidemiology
Anth 357, Culture, Disease, and Healing Spring 13
Anth 358, Comparative Health Care Systems
Art 230, Architecture, Design and Society (Intl Div)Spring 13
Clsics 294, Magic and Science in Greece and Rome (HU)Spring 13
ComStu 250, Analyzing Media (SB)Spring 13
ComStu 300, Information Technology and Human Communication (SB)Spring 13
Econ 345, Natural Resource Economics and Sustainable Development
Econ 349, Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems
Econ 380, Health Economics
EEOS 260, Global Environmental Change (NS)
EEOS 355, Historical Environments
Engl 183G, Literature and Society (FYS)
Engl 184G, Technology and the Soul (FYS)
Engl 186G, Gender and Science Fiction (FYS)
Engl 188G, Literature, Medicine and Culture (FYS)
Engl 334, Science Fiction
Engl 343: Literature, Culture, and the Environment (HU)
Engl 406: Victorian Age; theme: "Realism, Sensation, and Science."
EnvSty 364, Environmental Justice
EnvSty 401, Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formulation
Honors 258, Darwinian Medicine
Honors 290**Human and Animal RightsSpring 13
Honors 290**Physics Topic - TBDSpring 13
Honors 290**StatisticsSpring 13
Intr-D 125, Science for Humane Survival I(NS) Spring 13
Intr-D 126, Science for Humane Survival II (NS)
Math 370, History of Math (MT)Spring 13
Phil 265, Sanity and Madness (SB, US Div)
Phil 205 Inquiry and investigation Spring 13
Pol Sci 377, Special Topics
Sociol 367L, Drugs and Society (SB)
Sociol 368L, Alcoholism: Etiology and Epidemiology
Sociol 384, Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health CareSpring 13
Sociol 386, The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Sociol 440, Sociology of knowledge and ignorance
WoSt 210G, Gender and the body (Int Sem)Spring 13
WoSt 260, Women's Health Care Spring 13

# Courses not currently offered.
[**] Most Honors Program courses are open to students outside the program who apply for permission.

In addition, advanced undergraduates may choose, with the permission of the instructor, the following graduate courses:
Area I or III
CrCrTh 619, Biomedical Ethics Summer 13


Area II or III
CrCrTh 640, Environment, Science and Society: Critical Thinking
CrCrTh 645, Biology in Society: Critical Thinking Fall 14
CrCrTh 649, Scientific & Political Change Spring 14
EEOS 697, Risk Analysis in Environmental Health


Area III

CrCrTh 650, Mathematical Thinking Fall 13
CrCrTh 652, Children and ScienceSpring 13
CrCrTh 670, Thinking, Learning and Computers Fall 13
English 600, Studies in Criticism
English 663, The End of the World
WoSt 597, Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-based Learning approach (By application through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies) Spring 13

Faculty

Program Director: Peter Taylor (life, environmental, and health sciences in their social context; critical reflective practice in science) [617.287.7636, Wheatley Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 157]
Arthur Millman (environmental ethics; philosophy of science)
Louise Penner (literature and medicine; medical humanities)
Rachel Skvirsky (biology in a social context, especially genetics and molecular biology)
Nancy Stieber (history of urban planning and urban design; space, place, and the shaping of the environment)

Additional Affiliated Faculty

Chris Bobel (social movements and social change/feminist activism, social constructions of motherhood & parenting, women's health)
Maria Brincker (philosophy of mind and brains)
Esther Kingston-Mann
Cynthia Jahn (relationship between literacy/cognition and information/communications technology)
David Levy (envtl. science in social context; innovation and renewable energy)
Scott Maisano
Ken Rothwell (Science and the Natural World in Antiquity)
Robert Stevenson (citizen science; technological change, values & institutions)