http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/ en Copyright 2009 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:40:11 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Benjamin Franklin Seminar course originates in Nursing This honors course examines social issues and consequences of advancing age in the 21st century. The examination is designed to create intellectual foundations as place from which to critique social images, constructions and processes. Contemporary and historical ideas ranging from stereotypes of the dirty old man and the sweet little old lady to language of intergenerational conflict and the sandwich generation are all material for building those foundations. Resources used include classical works in social gerontology and emerging research in aging studies and related fields. These works and those selected by the student are viewed through a critical lens built from understandings of diverse individual, familial, cultural and societal notions of aging and human experience and drawing on student and faculty background and life experience. Skills for participant observer field work in the tradition of thick description are built to allow reflection of current representations of aging and being old in contrast to the contemporary and historical ideas gleaned from the literature. Syllabus 10A]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/338_sweet_little_old_ladies_an.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/338_sweet_little_old_ladies_an.php Courses Courses Spring 2010 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:40:25 -0500 Benjamin Franklin Seminar course originates in Nursing This honors course examines the psychological gerontology of advancing age and identity in the 21st century. Examination emphasizes gendered notions of beauty and sexuality in ageing and the life span to foster discourse around historical notions and images of beauty and ugliness in late life in contrast to contemporary messages of attractiveness and age represented by both women and men. The course is designed to create intellectual foundations as place from which to critique socially mediated and personally conveyed images and messages from a variety of media and their influence on intrapersonal and interpersonal constructions and social processes. Contemporary and historical ideas encompassing stereotypical and idealized views of the older person are employed to reflect dialogue around readings and field work. Classical and contemporary scholarship from gerontology, anthropology, biomedicine and surgery, nursing, and marketing among other disciplines as well as select lay literature are critiqued and compared with interpretation of field work to build understandings of diverse individual, familial, and cultural impressions of aging and identity. Skills for participant observer field work in the tradition of thick description are built to allow reflection and analysis of discourse about aging, beauty, sexuality, and other relevant aspects of human identity. Syllabus 10A]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/aging_beauty_and_sexuality_psy.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/aging_beauty_and_sexuality_psy.php Courses Courses Spring 2010 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:47:36 -0500 Capstone Course [Required for students who plan to write a senior thesis for honors] This research methods seminar helps students develop skills crucial to independent research and to senior thesis development. The course combines focused reading, critical analysis of key texts, small-group projects, and writing and research exercises. Students can use this course to develop a plan for a senior research project, and to produce a polished thesis prospectus and literature review that can guide their thesis work over their senior year. They carry out a literature review and research plan for a thesis topic. This course fulfills the Capstone research requirement for students writing a senior thesis. Syllabus 09A ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/420_research_seminar.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/420_research_seminar.php Courses Courses Spring 2010 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:31:30 -0500 Download pdf]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hsoc/news_and_events_1/october_2009_newsletter.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hsoc/news_and_events_1/october_2009_newsletter.php News and Events Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:33:04 -0500 The Key Reporter Fall 2009 Penn Career Services Office Information and advising for undergraduates regarding internships, job-hunting, professional school applications and postgraduate study. Pre-Professional Resources For Students Considering Professional or Graduate School Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) Wharton Consulting Club Med School Countdown A interactive website that provides application information and statistics for prospective medical school applicants about all U.S. medical schools - free to use, free to sign up - developed by HSOC major Chase Feiger. Post-undergraduate Fellowships Philly Fellows A one-year fellowship program that connects recent graduates with challenging non-profit jobs that make a difference in Philadelphia. Penn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship Partnership for Public Service (Government internships and entry-level positions) International Internships Think Tanks and Civil Society Program (TTCSP) AIESEC Internships InterAction (international internships) Inter-American Development Bank U.N. Development Programme World Bank Young Professionals Program and Region-Specific Internships Fellowships Penn Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF) Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice Villers Fellowship for Health Care Justice Echoing Green Fellowship Select List of Fellowship Opportunities Fulbright Grants Post-Penn Service Opportunities Doctors Without Borders Global Volunteers Heifer International International Volunteer Programs Association U.N. Volunteers Peace Corps Teach for America Americorps World Volunteer Web Job-Hunting Penn Career Services U.S. Government International Development Jobs InterAction (international jobs) UN/US State Department Jobs This list shows what kinds of jobs and offices exist within these two institutions. International Jobs]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hsoc/careers/what_can_i_do_with_a_liberal_a.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hsoc/careers/what_can_i_do_with_a_liberal_a.php Careers Careers Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:06:32 -0500 This course is required for all HSOC majors Fulfills Sector IV requirement This course is an introduction to the vocabulary, skills, and concepts basic to sociocultural studies of health and disease. While recognizing the importance of the biomedical model, particularly to Western civilization, the course asks students to explore other approaches and healing traditions. It does so by exploring how policy analysts, medical care providers, and scholars from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history and sociology have crafted responses to such real world problems as malnutrition, epidemic disease, and the inequitable distribution of health resources. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/010_health_and_societies_2.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/010_health_and_societies_2.php Courses Courses Spring 2010 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:41:24 -0500 "Social Health," in honor of Steven Feierman, will be held at Penn on April 23-24, 2010. (details forthcoming) http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/festschrift.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/festschrift.php News and Events Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:29:40 -0500 LPS Course - See "About Registering for Courses" (scroll to the top of this page)]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/026601_philosophy_of_time_and.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/026601_philosophy_of_time_and.php Courses Spring 2010 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:31:58 -0500 The Daily Pennsylvanian]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/stsc/news_and_events_3/lindsey_stull_in_the_dp.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/stsc/news_and_events_3/lindsey_stull_in_the_dp.php News and Events Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:49:34 -0500 Graduate Alumni page]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hssc/news_and_events_2/graduate_alumni_1.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/hssc/news_and_events_2/graduate_alumni_1.php News and Events Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:39:36 -0500 Fulfills Sector IV and Sector VII requirements LPS course - only open to LPS students for Spring 2010 Over the past 500 years, science has emerged as a central and transformative feature of Western society and culture, a human enterprise that continues to reshape everyday life in countless ways. Why did science take root in the West, and how did it gradually change the way we see the world? What was the “Scientific Revolution,” and why did it take place when and where it did? How has the thinking of great scientists been shaped by the culture, religion, and politics of their own times? How has science transformed the way we understand the universe and our place in it? This lecture course will survey the emergence of the modern scientific worldview from ancient Greece through the end of the 20th century. Focusing on the life and work of those who created modern science, we will explore their core ideas, where those ideas came from, what problems they solved, what made them controversial and exciting, and how they related to contemporary religious beliefs, politics, society, and culture. The course is organized both chronologically and thematically. In short, this is a “Western Civ” course with a difference. ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/001601_emergence_of_modern_sci.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/001601_emergence_of_modern_sci.php Courses Spring 2010 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:44 -0500 This graduate course is taught in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies. Although frequently portrayed in opposition, religion and science share a common goal of providing a coherent explanation of the origins and operations of the natural world. Indeed, until the modern period, it is often difficult to discern a sharp boundary between the theological and the rational. In this seminar, we will explore the evolving relationship between these two dominant worldviews from Antiquity to the present. Specific topics include: Aristotelian thought and its incorporation into Christian theology; alchemy, magic, and mysticism; Galileo and the Catholic Church; Protestantism and the Scientific Revolution; evolution and theology; and God, Eastern religion, and modern physics.]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/518640_religion_science_and_th.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/courses/518640_religion_science_and_th.php Courses Courses Spring 2010 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:42:04 -0500 Mara Mills has received the 2009 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and the 2009 William Cadogan Prize from the British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health. STSC senior Lindsey Stull writes a regular column for The Daily Pennsylvanian Professor John Tresch is on leave with a fellowship from the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for the 2009-2010 academic year. HSS was well represented at SHOT 2009 (Society for the History of Technology meeting) in Pittsburgh on October 15-18. Faculty and graduate students: Ruth Cowan, Nathan Ensmenger, Ann Greene, Matt Hersch, Eric Hintz, Corrina Schlombs, Kristofer Whitney and Damon Yarnell; HSS Alums: Atsushi Akera, Glenn Bugos, Bernie Carlson, Deborah Douglas, Nathan Ensmenger, Thomas Haigh, Gabrielle Hecht, Chris Jones, Nina Lerman, Thomas Misa, Fred Quivik, Eric Rau, Yasushi Sato, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudemaier, Jeff Tang, Jeremy Vetter, and Audra Wolfe. Many HSS folks are in leadership positions: Bernie Carlson is SHOT Secretary, John Staudemaier is the (long-time but retiring) editor of Technology and Culture; Thomas Haigh, Corinna Schlombs and Ann Greene are SIG (special interest group) leaders; Deborah Douglas, Nina Lerman, Amy Slaton, Glenn Bugos, Atsushi Akera, John Staudemaier and Karl-erik Michelsen serve on SHOT committees. HSS graduate students hosted the Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Medicine on October 9-10. Ruth Schwartz Cowan has recently given the following talks: "Climbing Up The Slippery Slope," at a conference on Religion and Genetics at the University of Minnesota in September, and "Archibald Garrod and the Origins of Personalized Medicine," at the CIGHT Symposium at Penn. She served on a panel at the [public] Symposium on Regenerative Medicine for Penn's Genome Frontiers Institute at the Franklin Institute in September, and at the recent SHOT meeting she chaired and participated on a panel about "Why there are So Few Women Engineers." Ann Greene's book,Horses At Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (Harvard University Press, 2008) has received the Fred B. Kniffen Award for best authored book from the Pioneer America Society.]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/around_the_department.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/around_the_department.php News and Events Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:07:23 -0500 HSSC Monday Workshop Schedule for Fall 2009 Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) Calendar LInk to comprehensive calendar of events at area institutions. Links to program and alumni news on this website: Graduate * HSOC * STSC ]]> http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/current_information_and_schedu.php http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/news/current_information_and_schedu.php News and Events Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:04:18 -0500

Adams	W 12-1:30	366 Cohen
Aronowitz	M 2:15-3:30	325 Cohen
Barg	By appt.	2 Gates/HUP
Barnes	M 10:30-12 T 4-5	323 Cohen
Burnett	T 10-12	373 Cohen
Cowan	T 1-3 W 11-1	324 Cohen
Crane	T 2-4	2046 Museum/247
Ensmenger	M 1:30-3:30 T 1:30-2:30	362 Cohen
Feierman	M 1:30-3:30	322 Cohen
Kuklick	M 1:30-3:30	327 Cohen
Lindee	M 1-3	364 Cohen
Mills	T 2:30-4:30	365 Cohen
Preston	MW 2-3	289 McNeil
Sorenson	By appt.	3815 Walnut
Summers	T 3-4:30	3814 Walnut
Walls	T 10-11:30	373 Cohen
Wolfe	W 1-3	373 Cohen

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