What Counts as an STSC Elective?

The HSS faculty provide a distinct critical perspective on science, technology and medicine.
Department courses provide students with training in that perspective.  

These courses fulfill the STSC electives/department courses requirement of 7 electives for the major, or 4 for the minor. 

HSOC 0311: Addiction

HSOC 0313: Cane and Able

HSOC 0387: Epidemics in History

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

HSOC 2303: Fundamentals of Epidemiology

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 3313: Reproductive Medicine

HSOC 3327: Birth Culture and Medical Technology

HSOC 3356: The Human Subject

HSOC 3447: Disabilities and Epidemics

HSOC 3803: Bodies and Borders: Health, Place and Displacement

HSOC 4000-level capstones

PHIL 1810: Philosophy of Space and Time

STSC 0100: Emergence of Modern Science (HSOC 0100)

STSC 0228: Studying Sex

STSC 0280: Medicine, Magic, Miracles

STSC 0400: Medicine in History (HSOC 0400)

STSC 0490: Comparative Medicine (HSOC 0490)

STSC 0600: Technology and Society (HSOC 0600)

STSC 0823: Sport Science in the World

STSC 1101: Science and Literature

STSC 1120: Science, Technology and Warfare

STSC 1151: Modern Biology and Social Implication

STSC 1201: Darwin’s Legacy

STSC 1600: Information Age

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 2080: Science and Religion

STSC 2097: Race & Gender in Global Science

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 2418: Engineering Cultures

STSC 2421: Manufacturing Minds: From Babbage to ChatGPT

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 3028: Normal People

STSC 3087: Science and Spectacle: Seeing is Believing

STSC 3097: Indigeneity in Health, Science and Technology (HSOC 357)

STSC 3136: Queer Science

STSC 3145: The Universe: Historical Inquiries in Physics, Philosophy and Religious Belief

STSC 3147: Scientific Instruments and the Making of Knowledge

STSC 3167: Global Radiation History: Living in the Atomic Age 1945-Present

STSC 3183: Profit and Knowledge

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 3923 - Animals in America

STSC 4000-level capstones

 

Updated 06/07/2023