STS programs: United States
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Arizona State University
PROGRAM NAME: The Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes (CSPO)
ANNOUNCEMENT - ASU is pleased to invite applications for a new PhD program in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology .
URL: http://cspo.org/
LOCATION: Tempe, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix) - one of the nicest places, weather-wise, during the school year!
DESCRIPTION: CSPO is one of the world's leading research centers for the integration of STS and Science and Technology Policy Studies. Founded in 2003, CSPO today has 36 faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students working on a huge diversity of projects. The largest of these projects include: the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, a $6 million NSF-funded research network that also includes the STS program at Wisconsin as well as science policy researchers at Georgia Tech, Rutgers, and Colorado; the Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate project, a NSF-funded decision making under uncertainty award in collaboration with the University of Colorado to examine how the US chooses how to invest its research funds in the field of climate change; and the Project on Global and Comparative Knowledges, a new project pursuing research on the construction and application of knowledge in global policy making. CSPO has close relationships with the Center for Biology and Society, Women and Gender Studies, Political Science, the School of Justice and Social Inquiry, and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, all of which have Master's and PhD programs through which students join CSPO.
- Faculty: David Guston (MIT), Merlyna Lim (Twente), Clark Miller (Cornell), Daniel Sarewitz (Cornell), Jameson Wetmore (Cornell), Daniel Barben (Free University, Berlin), Netra Chhetri (Penn State), Cynthia Selin (Danish Technical Institute), Erik Fisher (Colorado), Dave Conz (ASU). Other ASU STS faculty include Jill Fisher, Jane Maienschein, Jason Robert, Ed Hackett, Torin Monahan, Andrew Hamilton, Ben Minteer, Elizabeth Corley, Anne Schneider, Prasad Boradkar, and many, many others in history and philosophy of science, law, science & technology, and other programs.
- Postdocs: Ira Bennett,
- Contact into: Jameson Wetmore - Jameson.Wetmore@asu.edu
- Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University
Undergraduate Program
PROGRAM NAME: B.S. in Science, Technology and Society
URL: http://sls.asu.edu/ss/index.html [1]
LOCATION: Arizona State University Polytechnic campus in Mesa, Arizona
DESCRIPTION: The Social Science program in the School of Letters and Sciences is unique in its location at Arizona State University. Although we provide education to our students that meets traditional expectations in the social sciences, we are not another generic social science division on a university campus. Rather, we seek to sculpt a first-rate social science entity appropriate to a polytechnic learning center. We are developing core strength on the interaction of science, technology and human systems and would like to become a world-class learning center in this area. It includes governance and public policy; science, technology and community development; science, technology, culture and human values; the politics of technology development; science, technology and population diversity; science, technology and international engagement; and science, technology and the environment.
FACULTY: Social Sciences Faculty [2]
CONTACT: (480) 727-1526 or sls@asu.edu
Bard College
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology, and Society
URL: http://inside.bard.edu/sts/
LOCATION: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Degrees offered: Undergraduate
Brown University
PROGRAM NAME: Science and Technology Studies
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Faculty/COSTS/
LOCATION: Providence, RI
Degrees offered: Undergraduate concentration
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology & Society
URL: http://www.class.csupomona.edu/phl/courses/
LOCATION: Pomona, California
Degrees offered: Concentration in philosophy undergraduate major
Colby College
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology, and Society
URL: http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/sts/
LOCATION: Waterville, ME
Degrees offered: Undergraduate, undergraduate minor
Claremont Colleges
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology, and Society
URL: http://www.sts.pomona.edu/
LOCATION: Claremont, California
Degrees offered: Undergraduate concentration, undergraduate minor
Cornell University
PROGRAM NAME: Department of Science & Technology Studies
URL: http://www.sts.cornell.edu
LOCATION: Ithaca, NY
DESCRIPTION: Cornell University's S&TS Department offers both undergraduate and graduate education designed to promote and deepen understanding of science and technology. Drawing on faculty and courses in history, philosophy, sociology, and politics of science and technology, the Department of Science & Technology Studies provides an integrated approach to addressing issues that we must engage today and in the future. Building on a tradition of teaching and research that began more than 50 years ago, the Cornell S&TS program prepares students for a wide range of careers.
Since World War II, Cornell faculty have offered courses in history of science and related topics. In the 1970s, Cornell developed one of the first programs worldwide to apply policy analysis and related disciplines to science and technology. A separate graduate program began in the 1980s, and in 1991 the various programs were combined into a new Department of Science & Technology Studies. The S&TS department administers two undergraduate majors (in Science & Technology Studies and in Biology & Society), a vibrant graduate program, and sponsors a variety of regular reading groups, colloquia, and seminars. Today, the Cornell Department of Science & Technology Studies is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the strongest and most important sites for studying the interweaving of science, technology, and society.
- Faculty: Richard Boyd, Brian Chabot, Peter Dear, Park Doing, Stephen Hilgartner, Ron Kline, Kevin Lambert, Christine Leuenberger, Bruce Lewenstein, Michael Lynch, Walter Lynn, Trevor Pinch, Allison Power, Rachel Prentice, Jessica Ratcliff, Judith Reppy, Margaret Rossiter, Phoebe Sengers, Suman Seth, Kathleen Vogel, L. Pearce Williams
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- Cornell University: Department of Science & Technology Studies
Emory University
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Culture & Society
URL: http://www.scienceandsociety.emory.edu/
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia
Degrees offered: Undergraduate minor
Georgia Institute of Technology
LOCATION: Atlanta, GA
PROGRAM NAME: School of History, Technology & Society; Program in History & Sociology of Technology & Science
PROGRAM TYPE: Undergraduate & Graduate
URL: [3]
DESCRIPTION:
The Georgia Institute of Technology - commonly known as Georgia Tech - is a public, coeducational university, part of the University System of Georgia, and located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; and Singapore.
Consistently ranked among the top ten public universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Georgia Tech is best known for its programs in engineering, computing, and the sciences, though it also offers degrees in architecture, liberal arts, and management.
Established in 1885 and opened in 1888 with the construction of Tech Tower and a shop building, Georgia Tech's campus occupies a large part of Midtown Atlanta. In 1996, it was the site of the athletes' village, and a venue for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The School of History, Technology, and Society (HTS), an interdisciplinary unit within the Ivan Allen College, consists of scholars from History and Sociology. The School offers a B.S. degree; undergraduate minors in History, Sociology, and Women, Science, & Technology; and certificate programs not only in History and Sociology but also in African American Studies, Asian Affairs, and European Affairs. Graduate students can earn an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in the History and Sociology of Technology and Science.
Degrees offered: B.S., M.S. & Ph.D.
Graduate Curriculum: Courses
Chair: Ronald H. Bayor (American Urban History, Pennsylvania)
Faculty: Eleanor Alexander (African-American History); Ronald Bayor (Urban and Ethnic History, Immigration Studies); Laura Bier (Post-Colonial Nationalisms, Modern Middle Eastern, Modern European History); Amanda Damarin (Economic Sociology, Work and Inequality, Social Theory, and Culture); Douglas Flamming (American South since the Civil War, Vietnam War); Lawrence Foster (American Social History, Comparative History); August Giebelhaus (Economic and Business History, History of Technology); Kenneth J. Knoespel (History of Science & Technology in Modern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia); John Krige (Kranzberg Professor: Science, Technology, and the Postwar Reconstruction of Europe); Hanchao Lu (History of Modern China and Japan); Carole E. Moore(Ancient and Medieval History); Gregory H. Nobles (Early American, Environment, and Labor History); Willie Pearson, Jr. (Sociology of Science, Sociology of the Family); Sue Rosser (Dean of Ivan Allen College: Theoretical and Applied Problems of Women and Science, Women’s Health); Jonathan Schneer (Modern European and British History, Labor History); John Lawrence Tone (Modern Spain, French Revolution, Military History); Steven Usselman(History of Technology, Industrial History, Recent U.S. History); William Winders (Political Sociology, Sociology of Inequality).
Contact info:
- School of History, Technology & Society, 685 Cherry Street NW, D.M. Smith Bldg. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345
- http://www.hts.gatech.edu/about/contact.php
Harvard University
PROGRAM NAME: Program on Science, Technology & Society
LOCATION: Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
URL: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/
DESCRIPTION: The STS Program at the Kennedy School is a leading center for the study of STS in the context of law, policy, and politics. Led by Sheila Jasanoff, STS at Harvard offers a fellows program that is a magnet for scholars of the politics of science and technology from all over the world, who participate in a yearlong research seminar while also experiencing an exciting environment of vibrant intellectual exchange and enrichment. STS at Harvard also has close ties with the MIT STS program and the Harvard History of Science Department, often drawing several students from each into the ongoing research seminar. The Harvard STS Program also serves as the host for the annual meeting of the Science and Democracy Network, a professional community for scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of scientific research, technological innovation, and democratic governance. The program hosts a weekly discussion series, the STS Circle, which draws from a large pool of both established and upcoming STS scholars for its presentations and audience. Once a semester, the program sponsors the Science and Democracy Lecture Series, public talks which features interdisciplinary panels of top STS scholars discussing topics pertaining to the meaning of science and technology in democratic societies.
- Faculty: Sheila Jasanoff
- Contact info: sheila_jasanoff@harvard.edu, Contact
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
LOCATION: Champaign, IL
PROGRAM NAME: Information and Society
URL: PhD program
DESCRIPTION (PhD concentration, Information and Society): The University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science is recruiting a select group of doctoral students interested in pursuing the study of information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Your interests may lie in any part of the emerging field of information studies, such as practices of information organization, library history, the political economy of information, or community information systems; your academic background may be in library and information science, history, law, communications or other fields—as long as you share our commitment to engaging deeply with the processes that structure information in society. Fellowship recipients should be seeking to prepare for careers as faculty members in schools of library and information science.
PROGRAM NAME: Social, Community, and Organizational Informatics
URL: Areas of Research
Social informatics as an area of research seeks to understand the way information and communication systems and technologies shape and are shaped by the social context of their creation and use. Studies explore what pre-existing practices in information and communication produce particular designs and uses of information systems, how invisible technical and social infrastructures facilitate or limit access to information resources, and how anticipated and unanticipated appropriations of technology lead to new uses and practices. A further aspect of the field is the exploitation of information technology as a tool to understand social relationships. Research includes both descriptive and analytic accounts of these relationships as well as studies of ethical and policy questions. Since information systems pre-date computing technology, the field considers historical and philosophical foundations as well.
- Contact info: lcsmith@uiuc.edu
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science: PhD program,Social Informatics area of research
Johns Hopkins University
LOCATION: Baltimore, MD
PROGRAM NAME: History of Science and Technology
URL: http://web.jhu.edu/host
Lehigh University
PROGRAM NAME: cience, Technology, and Society Studies
URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~insts/
LOCATION: Bethlehem, PA
Degrees offered: Undergraduate major, undergraduate minor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Morrisville State College, State University of New York (SUNY)
LOCATION: 223 Crawford Hall, PO Box 901, Morrisville, New York, 13408
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology, and Society
URL: http://www.morrisville.edu/sts
DESCRIPTION: The Science, Technology, and Society degree program at Morrisville State College offers students a bachelor of science degree and prepares students for work in the fields of environmental science or information technology, particularly areas of these fields which require reflection upon the related social issues and policies. The degree is also valuable as preparation for many of the excellent graduate degree programs in STS.
The degree is composed of a core undergraduate STS curriculum, including courses on history of science, the sociology of science and technology, and the values of science and technology, advanced topics STS courses, numerous related electives, and a senior seminar. This core is bolstered by a concentration in the technical fields of Enviromental Science/Renewable Resources and/or Computer Information Technology.
This new program, established in fall 2007, is one of the few undergraduate level STS programs available in the United States and is currently the only such degree program within the State University of New York.
- Contact info: Wyatt Galusky, (315)684-6173 galuskw@morrisville.edu, or Kurt Reymers, (315)684-6193 reymers@morrisville.edu.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology and Society
URL: http://humanities.njit.edu/academics/undergraduate/sts/
LOCATION: Newark, New Jersey
Degrees offered: BS
North Carolina State University
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology & Society
URL: http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/ids/sts/
LOCATION: Raleigh, NC
Degrees offered: BA, BS, undergraduate minor
Pennsylvania State University
PROGRAM NAME: Program in Science, Technology, & Soceity
URL: http://sts.psu.edu/
LOCATION: State College, PA (in the very ‘centre’ of the state)
DESCRIPTION: Founded in 1968, STS is an since 2006 an intercollege program in the College of Engineering and the College of the Liberal Arts, with faculty in fields of science policy, history and philosophy of science and technology, law, medical and environmental ethics, and disability studies.
- Core faculty: Jesse Ballenger, Dorothy Blair, Donald Brown, Richard Doyle, Darryl Farber, John Horgan, Jonathan Marks, Bettina Mathes, Jennifer Mensch, Veena Raman, Erich Schienke, Chloe Silverman, Susan Squier, Nancy Tuana, Steven Walton, Harry West.
- Affiliated Faculty: Michael Bérubé (English), Anne Buchanan (Anthropology), Mark Fisher (Philosophy), Leland Glenna (Rural Sociology), Kathryn Jablokow (Mechanical Engineering), Janet Lyon (English), Mark Morrisson (English), Richard Schuhmann (Engineering Design), Stuart Selber (English), Ken Weiss (Anthropology), Philip Wilson (Medical Humanities), Brent Yarnal (Geography)
- Contact into: Marcella Fickes - myf1@psu.edu Penn State STS Program
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Polytechnic Institute of New York University
PROGRAM NAME: Science and Technology Studies
URL: http://www.poly.edu/humanities/undergraduate/sts/
LOCATION: New York, New York
Degrees offered: BS, undergraduate minor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
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- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rice University
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- Rice University Department of Anthropology
Rochester Institute of Technology
PROGRAM NAME: Science and Technology Studies; Science, Technology and Society
URL: http://www.rit.edu/cla/publicpolicy/minorsconcentrations.php
LOCATION: Rochester, NY
Degrees offered: Undergraduate concentration; undergraduate minor
Santa Clara University
LOCATION: Loyola Hall, Suite 206, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, 95053
PROGRAM NAME: Center for Science, Technology, and Society
DESCRIPTION: The Center for Science, Technology, and Society researches and promotes the use of science and technology for the common good. Through research, education, and public events, the Center brings together scholars, industry leaders, and public advocates to collaboratively serve humanity by leveraging its unique strengths.
- Faculty: Dr. Geoffrey Bowker, Executive Director; Dr. Pedro Hernández-Ramos, Associate Director; Dr. S. Leigh Star, Senior Scholar; Dr. James L. Koch, Founding Director and Executive Director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator; Allen S. Hammond, Program Director, Law and Public Policy.
- Contact into: Cathy Valerga, Center Manager, (408) 551-1785, cvalerga@scu.edu; Sherrill Dale, Administrative Associate, (408) 551-6027, sdale@scu.edu.
Stanford University
Location: Palo Alto, CA Program name: Program in Science, Technology and Society URL:[4]
Description: Stanford's Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) offers undergraduates integrated studies of the natures and relationship of science, technology, and engineering, and of the social relations of science and technology. STS provides an arena for dialogue among students of engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences -- a common ground where important cross-disciplinary studies transcending the gaps between the technical and non-technical fields are not merely envisioned, but practiced.
Stanford's STS program, founded in 1971, is among the oldest of such programs in the United States. Stanford STS graduates, taking full advantage of their unique, demanding, and intellectually stimulating training, have entered distinguished graduate programs, such as Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, MIT's Technology and Policy Program, and graduate programs at the Universities of Sussex and Pennsylvania. STS alumni and alumnae have forged successful careers in a variety of fields, including business, engineering, law, public service, medicine, and academia.
- Director: Prof. Robert McGinn
- An Interdisciplinary Committee:
* Robert McGinn, (Director) Management Science and Engineering * Hank Greeley, Law * Ursula Heise, English * Brad Osgood, Electrical Engineering * Eric Roberts, Computer Science * Scott Sagan, Political Science * Rebecca Slayton, STS * Frederick Turner, Communications * John Willinsky, Education
- Degrees Offered: B.A.,B.S, Minor, Honor in STS.
- Contact information:
Program in Science, Technology and Society Bldg. 370 Stanford, CA 94305-2120 Telephone: (650) 723-2565 Fax: (650) 725-5389
Stevens Institute of Technology
PROGRAM NAME: Science and technology studies
URL: http://www.stevens.edu/cal/minors/science.html
LOCATION: Hoboken, New Jersey
Degrees offered: Undergraduate minor
University of California, Berkeley
URL: http://stsc.berkeley.edu/
PROGRAM TYPE: Center
DESCRIPTION: Founded in 2005, the Science, Technology, and Society Center is one of a growing number of newly funded ST&S centers, and it's in distinguished company, including the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization in Oxford University's Said Business School and the Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Like its Oxford and Madison counterparts, the Berkeley STS Center seeks to assemble a diverse community of scholars and scientists who study the "origins, growth, and consequences of scientific and technological knowledge and practice." The Center construes STS broadly enough to encompass medicine and media as well as science and engineering. This community is truly diverse, as one can immediately see from the list of affiliated faculty, who are drawn from all over the University (including a substantial number of engineering faculty). Since it's clear that S&TS needs to engage scientists and engineers in dialogue and cooperative scholarship in order to advance knowledge in our field, it seems equally clear that the Berkeley STS Center is at the cutting edge of our field.
The Center's ambitions go beyond facilitating collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects at Berkeley; indeed, it is seen as the center for coordinating an effort to support the dissemination of S&TS throughout the University of California system. Taking a cue from STS Wiki, a major new initiative is the MediaWiki-based [5] STSNet, which provides a platform for resource sharing and planning among STS scholars throughout the UC system.
Director: Charis Thompson (Rhetoric and Gender & Women's Studies); Associate Director: David Winickoff (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
- Affiliated faculty: http://stsc.berkeley.edu/STSC_FacResList.asp
- Contact info: http://stsc.berkeley.edu/STSC_StaffContact.htm
- Events calendar: http://stsc.berkeley.edu/STSC_Events.asp
University of California, Davis
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DEGREE: Undergraduate B.A.(http://sts.ucdavis.edu/STSMajor) , Undergraduate minor (http://sts.ucdavis.edu/HPSMinor)
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
"Science and Technology Studies is a new major created to address the complex issues of how science, technology, medicine, and engineering have developed and continue to develop within societies and cultures. STS is a fully interdisciplinary program drawing on American Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Environmental Science and Policy, History, Philosophy, and Sociology to understand, interpret, and intervene in our changing world. You will learn to think critically, explore controversies, and find a common ground between social and technical concerns. As an STS major you can design your studies to follow your interests and prepare you for making meaningful careers in law, medicine and healthcare, public policy, environmental justice, bioethics, science or technical writing, biotech and digital business. STS is also designed to be combined with other majors to deepen your chosen path with cross-disciplinary expertise." Available degree tracks are I. Cultural Studies of Science and Technology; II. Ethics, Values, and Science Policy; III. History and Philosophy of Science; IV. Medicine, Society, and Culture.
- Faculty: http://sts.ucdavis.edu/Faculty
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University of California, San Diego
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University of Chicago
PROGRAM NAME: Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
URL: http://chss.uchicago.edu/
LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois
Degrees offered: Graduate
University of Maryland, College Park
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology and Society
URL: http://scholars.umd.edu/sts/certificate
LOCATION: College Park, Maryland
Degrees offered: Undergraduate citation (College Park Scholars), Undergraduate certificate
University of Massachusetts Amherst
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology and Society
URL: http://www.umass.edu/sts/
LOCATION: Amherst, Massachusetts
Degrees offered: Undergraduate concentration, graduate concentration
University of Michigan
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- University of Michigan Science, Technology, and Society Program
- University of Michigan Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
University of Michigan-Dearborn
PROGRAM NAME: Science and Technology Studies
URL: http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/sts/
LOCATION: Dearborn, MI
Degrees offered: Undergraduate minor/concentration
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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University of Notre Dame
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology, and Values
LOCATION: Notre Dame, Indiana
Degrees offered: Undergraduate minor
University of Pennsylvania
URL: Penn HSSC
PROGRAM NAME: Graduate program in the History and Sociology of Science, Undergraduate programs in Science, Technology and Society and Health and Societies.
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA
DESCRIPTION: The Graduate Group in History and Sociology of Science is distinctive in scope and emphasis. It embraces science, technology, and medicine in an integrated program and explores the relationships between them. In general, it admits students who wish to be prepared for research careers in any of the Department's areas of faculty strength, namely history of life sciences, medicine, technology, social sciences in Europe and the United States from the late 17th century on, and science, technology, and medicine in Russia, Africa, and East Asia. The program focuses on a balance of technical, social, and cultural aspects of natural knowledge. Students are encouraged to integrate these aspects in research and to explore the applications of history to contemporary issues in industrial, health, and science policy.
- Faculty: Mark Adams, Robert Aronowitz, David Barnes, Ruth Schwartz Cohen, Nathan Ensmenger, Steven Feierman, Henrika Kuklick, M. Susan Lindee, Beth Linker, Jonathan Moreno, Janet Tighe, and John Tresch
- Emeritus Faculty: Thomas P. Hughes, Robert E. Kohler, Charles E. Rosenberg (now at Harvard), Nathan Sivin, Rosemary Stevens, Arnold Thackray (now president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation).
University of Puget Sound
Location: Tacoma, WA
Program Name: Science, Technology & Society
Program Type: Undergraduate
URL: [6]
Description
The University of Puget Sound is a nationally ranked undergraduate liberal arts university offering both the B.A and B.S degrees, plus graduate programs in education, leading to the M.A.T. and M.Ed. and doctoral programs in Physical and Occupational Therapy. Located in Tacoma Washington, a major port city on the Pacific Coast of the United States about 25 miles from Seattle, the University has 2600 students and a faculty of more than 200, with more than 40 degree programs. The University has just completed construction (2008) on a new 20 million dollar science building, and is moving forward with planning fo construction of a new Health Sciences Complex.
Science, Technology, and Society courses explore the connections between the sciences and other parts of the human endeavor. Students in the Program develop an understanding of 1) how the broader culture influences the development of science and how science influences different societies and cultures, and 2) the interplay between science and economics, politics, religion, and values in contemporary decision making. Many Science, Technology, and Society courses are cross-disciplinary in nature, and many are team-taught. Faculty from more than a dozen different disciplines within and without the sciences participate in Science, Technology, and Society.
Majors in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society develop a strong understanding of the practice of science and technology, which provides excellent preparation for careers in medicine, law, public policy, and university research and teaching. Minors, especially those majoring in a science, and students taking individual courses broaden their understanding of this important area of human endeavor.
Degree Offered: B.A.
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Program and Degree Requirements [8]
Director: James C. Evans (Physics, STS; history of physics and astronomy))
Participating Faculty: Bernard Bates (Physics; Mars exploration),William Beardsley (Philosophy; early modern period), Douglas Cannon (Philosophy; philosophy of mathematics), Robin Foster (Psychology; evolution of sex differences, science and gender) Mott Greene (Honors, STS; history of earth and atmospheric sciences, technology and culture), Wade Hands (Economics; philosophy of economics and social sciences, Suzanne Holland (Religion; biomedical ethics), Kristin Johnson (STS; history of biology, history of medicine, science and religion), Elizabeth Knight (Library; all STS fields), Paul Loeb (philosophy; ethics of human enhancement), Robert Matthews (Math and Computer Science; computational intelligence, cognitive science),Mark Reinitz (Psychology: Science of memory and its social applications), Andrew Rex (Physics; history of physics), Justin Tiehen (Philosophy; philosophy of physics), Theodore Taranovski (History; war, technology and society).
Contact Info
- Professor James C Evans, Director. (jcevans@ups.edu)
University of Texas at Austin
URL: http://www.sts.utexas.edu
DESCRIPTION: Science, Technology and Society is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Our aim is to give students, faculty, and others in the community the opportunity to explore the wide range of social impacts of emerging technologies and new scientific discoveries, using the diverse approaches of the Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Digital information technologies and communication technologies are rapidly transforming traditional ways of working, learning, and living. Just as the invention of writing transformed ancient cultures, digital communication will transform ours. Key STS focus areas include Nanotechnology, Gaming, Collaborative work and work-life, Education, Bio-health, Surveillance, Mobile technologies and Computer-mediated communication.
University of Virginia
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Vassar College
LOCATION: Poughkeepsie, NY
PROGRAM NAME: Science, Technology and Society
PROGRAM TYPE: Undergraduate
URL: [9]
DESCRIPTION:
Vassar College is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college situated in Poughkeepsie, New York. Founded as a women's college in 1861, it was the first member of the Seven Sisters to become coeducational. U.S. News & World Report ranks it #12 among liberal arts programs in the United States.
The multidisciplinary program in Science, Technology, and Society is designed to enable students to pursue three objectives: a) to better understand the central role of science and technology in the emergence of advanced industrial society; b) to consider the social, political, philosophical, and cultural implications of the human experience in a technological society; and c) to explore possible directions of future development, using alternative social theories and perceptions.
Degree offered: B.A.
Curriculum: Courses offered
Director: James F. Challey (Physics and Science, Technology and Society)
Steering Committee: Janet Gray (Psychology), Richard B. Hemmes (Biology), Lucy Lewis Johnson (Anthropology), Robert E. McAulay (Sociology), Marque Miringoff (Sociology), Leonard Nevarez (Sociology), Nancy Pokrywka (Biology), Morton A. Tavel (Physics).
Participating Faculty: James F. Challey (Physics and Science, Technology, and Society), Elizabeth Collins (Biology), Janet Gray (Psychology), Richard B. Hernmes (Biology), Lucy Lewis Johnson (Anthropology), Shirley Johnson-Lans (Economics), Robert E. McAulay (Sociology), Sarjit Kaur (Chemistry), Bill Lunt (Economics), Alan Marco (Economics), Marque Miringoff (Sociology), Nancy Pokrywka (Biology), Molly Shanley (Political Science), Barry DeCoster (Adjunct in Bioethics), Jonah Triebwasser (Adjunct in Law and Technology).
Contact info:
- Box 264, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0246
- http://www.vassar.edu/contact.html?n=STS&e=sts
Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI)
LOCATION: Blacksburg, VA and Northern Virginia/Washington D.C. PROGRAM NAME: PROGRAM TYPE: Graduate Certificates, Masters and Ph.D. URL: [10] DESCRIPTION:
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech): Science and Technology in Society
University of Washington, Seattle
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
DESCRIPTION: The University of Washington offers both undergraduate and graduate education in the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies, with faculty expertise covering the history and philosophy of science and technology; cultural studies of science; and ethics, equity, and policy issues in science, technology and medicine. Many undergraduates choose to take the History and Philosophy of Science Major, while graduate fields are on offer in several STS-related fields. The UW also runs a Science Studies Network, organizing regular colloquia, conferences, and guest speakers on STS.
FACULTY: Leah Ceccarelli, Kelly Fryer-Edwards, Arthur Fine, Malia Fullerton, Bruce Hevly, Celia Lowe, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Gina Neff, Phillip Thurtle, Simon Werrett, Andrea Woody, Alison Wylie
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison: Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
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