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 requirement 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 Spring 12
Phil 222, Moral Issues in Medicine Spring 12
Phil 307, Technology and Values
Phil 346, Philosophy of Science
Phil 481, Advanced Philosophy of Science
Area II: History and Politics (at least two courses must be taken from this list)
Chem 476, Historical and Philosophical Background of Selected Chemical Theories
EEOS 355, Historic Environments
EnvSty/PolSci 250L, Environmental Policymaking
EnvSty 246L, Environmental History
PolSci 240, Politics, Probability, and Human Health
PolSci 348, Science and Public Policy
PolSci 370, The Darwinian Revolution
PolSci 367, Politics by Internet Spring 12
Area III: Electives in other fields of science and technology studies
Anth 357, Culture, Disease, and Healing Spring 12
Anth 358, Comparative Health Care Systems
Art 230, Architecture, Design and Society Spring 12
Clsics 294, Magic and Science in Greece and Rome Spring 12
ComStu 250, Analyzing Media Spring 12
ComStu 300, Information Technology and Human Communication Spring 12
Econ 345, Natural Resource Economics and Sustainable Development
Econ 349, Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems Spring 12
Engl 183G, Literature and Society Spring 12
Engl184G, Technology and the Soul
Engl186G, Gender and Science Fiction
Engl 334, Science Fiction
Engl 343: Literature, Culture, and the Environment
Engl 406: Victorian Age; theme: "Realism, Sensation, and Science."
EnvSty 364, Environmental Justice
EnvSty 401, Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formulation
EEOS 260, Global Environmental Change
Honors 290**, Bio Human Disease
Intr-D 125, Science for Humane Survival Spring 12
Math 370, History of Math
Phil 265, Sanity and Madness
Pol Sci 377, Special Topics
Sociol 384, Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care
Sociol 386, The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Sociol 440, Sociology of knowledge and ignorance
WoSt 210G, Gender and the body
WoSt 260, Women's Health Care Spring 12

[ *]The schedule of courses or the compilation from the University Advising Office identifies courses that cover the various distribution requirements.
[**] 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


Area II or III
CrCrTh 640, Environment, Science and Society: Critical Thinking
CrCrTh 645, Biology in Society: Critical Thinking
CrCrTh 649, Scientific & Political Change Spring 12
EEOS 697, Risk Analysis in Environmental Health


Area III

CrCrTh 611, Seminar in Critical Thinking (Theme: Invention and Innovation) Spring 12
CrCrTh 650, Mathematical Thinking
CrCrTh 652, Children and Science
CrCrTh 670, Thinking, Learning and Computers
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 Spring 121
(By application through the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies)

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)
Malcolm Smuts (early modern science; agricultural improvement and scientific or quasi-scientific observation in the 17th century)
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)
Esther Kingston-Mann
Cynthia Jahn (relationship betwen literacy/cognition and information/communications technology)
David Levy (envtl. science in social context; innovation and renewable energy)
Scott Maisano
Ken Rothwell
Mark Schlesinger (information technology and human communication; social and cultural change related to information technology)
Robert Stevenson (citizen science; technological change, values & institutions)