STSC Departmental Electives

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