2018/2019 STS Courses
STS Core Courses STS 501— Proseminar in Science and Technology Studies – Term 1 STS 502—Sociology of Knowledge and Culture – Term 2 STS 597/598 Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies – Term 1-2 STS Related Courses Taught by STS Affiliated Faculty SPPH 581T 001 (Seminar) Ethics of Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health – Term 1 […]
HIST 547: Special Topics In History
Instructors: Robert Brain Section: 201 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesday 9:30am-12pm Course Description Coming Soon Register here.
GEOG 547: A History of Anglo-American Geography 1880-19080
Instructors: Trevor Barnes Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Monday 2-5pm The course is concerned with the history of primarily Anglo-American geography from its institutionalization during European colonialism in the late nineteenth century until the 1970s and the emergence of radical and humanistic geography. Register here.
PHIL 560 002: Philosophy of Science
Instructors: Chris Stephens Section: 002 Term: 1 Meets: Thursday 11am-2pm This core course in the philosophy of science is meant to be an introduction to some of the major concepts and debates in contemporary philosophy of science. The first part of the course will be concerned with the nature of evidence and scientific knowledge. Our topics […]
PHIL 560 001: Philosophy of Science
Instructors: Chris Mole Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Monday 11am-2pm Course description coming soon.
ENGL 553A: Affect Theory, Materialist Criticism
Instructors: Adam Frank Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Thursday 2-5pm This course aims to do two things: to offer a survey of the turn to affect in the theoretical humanities of the last two decades (with a particular emphasis on Silvan Tomkins’s affect theory), and to locate this turn in relation to the longer history […]
ENGL 509A: Being a Person in the Age of Health Itself
Instructors: Judy Segal Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Monday 1-4pm This course will formulate, and respond to, questions of how public values about health and illness get taken up in individual bodies. It will track the ways people are well or ill in the terms available, at a time and a place, to be well or […]
ENGL 503A: Feminist Science Fiction and Science and Technology Studies
Instructors: Margery Fee Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesday 1-4pm Science studies examines Western science from a variety of perspectives including the postcolonial (is Western science the only science?), the rhetorical and the literary (embedded metaphors are “invisible” to scientists, as they talk about “gold standards” and “Holy Grails”), the historical and feminist (founded in […]
SOCI 501/STS 502: Core Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructors: Renisa Mawani Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Thursday 2-5pm Course description coming soon. Register here.
STS 501: Proseminar in Science and Technology Studies 2016/17
Instructors: Suzy Anger Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Wednesday 2-5pm Classic work in the history, philosophy, rhetoric, and sociology of science, and the development of a unified science and technology studies. Required for all students in the STS Program. Register here:
