What Counts as an STSC Departmental Elective?
History and Sociology of Science (HSS) faculty teach departmental electives, which introduce students to distinct critical perspectives on science and technology in historical and social context.
In Path@Penn, department electives have the "ASTL" course attribute tag.
These courses fulfill the requirement of seven (7) STSC departmental electives for the major or four (4) for the minor:
HSOC 0311: Addiction
HSOC 0313: Cane and Able (STSC 0313)
HSOC 0343: Why Medical Interventions Work (STSC 0343)
HSOC 0387: Epidemics in History (STSC 0387)
HSOC 0490: Comparative Medicine (STSC 0490)
HSOC 1330: Bioethics
HSOC 1401: The People's Health
HSOC 2183: Stem Cells, Science and Society
HSOC 2213: Herbs and Humors: Medieval and Early Modern Pharmacology (STSC 2213)
HSOC 2227: Trauma and Healing (STSC 2227)
HSOC 2303: Fundamentals of Epidemiology (STSC 2303)
HSOC 2304: Insect Epidemiology
HSOC 2457: History of Bioethics
HSOC 2514: Environments and Public Health
HSOC 2518: Devices, Pills, People
HSOC 2523: Technology and Medicine in Modern America
HSOC 2537: Gender and Health
HSOC 3028: Normal People (STSC 3028)
HSOC 3313: Reproductive Medicine
HSOC 3327: Birth Culture and Medical Technology
HSOC 3356: The Human Subject
HSOC 3447: Disabilities and Epidemics
HSOC 3644: Minds, Bodies, and Machines (STSC 3644)
HSOC 3803: Bodies and Borders: Health, Place and Displacement
HSOC 4000-level capstones
PHIL 1810: Philosophy of Space and Time
STSC 0013: History of UPenn
STSC 0100: Emergence of Modern Science (HSOC 0100)
STSC 0228: Studying Sex
STSC 0283: Medicine, Magic, Miracles
STSC 0400: Medicine in History (HSOC 0400)
STSC 0600: Technology and Society (HSOC 0600)
STSC 0668: Rivers, Culture, Power
STSC 0823: Sport Science in the World
STSC 0883: Climate and Change
STSC 1101: Science and Literature
STSC 1120: Science, Technology and War (HSOC 1120)
STSC 1151: Modern Biology and Social Implication
STSC 1201: Darwin’s Legacy
STSC 1600: Information Age (SOCI 2951)
STSC 1761: Nature and the City: Place, Memory and Environment
STSC 1788: Everyday Technologies
STSC 1880: Environment and Society
STSC 1897: Intro to Environmental History
STSC 2018: Science in the Public
STSC 2047: Scientific Revolution
STSC 2078: Planting Empire
STSC 2080: Science and Religion in Global Perspective
STSC 2097: Race and Gender in Global Science
STSC 2146: Science and Technology in Modern East Asia (EALC 2502)
STSC 2186: Climate Change
STSC 2198: Race, Science and Globalization
STSC 2202: Advanced Journalistic Writing: Science, Technology and Society (ENGL 3414)
STSC 2296: Technologies of Self and Society
STSC 2304: Insect Epidemiology
STSC 2418: Engineering Cultures
STSC 2421: Manufacturing Minds: From Babbage to ChatGPT (HSOC 2421)
STSC 2607: Cyberculture
STSC 2644: Artificial Subjects: Golems, Homonculi, Robots, and Cyborgs
STSC 2707: Data and Death
STSC 2708: Digital Democracy
STSC 2757: Prove It!: Mathematics and Certainty
STSC 2829: Nature's Nation: Americans and Their Environment
STSC 3017: Biology and Society
STSC 3036: Space/Power/Species (ANTH 3036)
STSC 3087: Science and Spectacle: Seeing is Believing
STSC 3088: Science, Labor, and Capital
STSC 3097: Indigenous Science (HSOC 357)
STSC 3136: Queer Science (GSWS 3136)
STSC 3145: The Universe: Historical Inquiries in Physics, Philosophy and Religious Belief
STSC 3147: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Knowledge
STSC 3183: Profit and Knowledge
STSC 3185: Global Radiation History: Living in the Atomic Age 1945-Present
STSC 3216: Toxicity in Context
STSC 3217: Weird Science
STSC 3247: Why Not Magic?: Magic, Esoterica, and the Occult in the History of Science
STSC 3279: Nutritional Modernities
STSC 3288: What is Prediction?
STSC 3299: CSI Global: History of Forensic Science
STSC 3334: Hybrid Science: Nature, Health and Society in Latin America
STSC 3607: Data Dreams
STSC 3627: Waters, Roads and Wires
STSC 3657: Technology and Democracy
STSC 3708: Many Lives of Data
STSC 3709: Rifle and Compass
STSC 3766: Cultures of Surveillance (ANTH 3766)
STSC 3824: Animals in Science, Medicine and Technology
STSC 3889: Trans Method (GSWS 3500)
STSC 3923: Animals in America
STSC 4000-level capstones