STS 501: Proseminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructors: Adam Frank and Alan Richardson Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Wednesdays 2:00-5:00pm This proseminar introduces students to methods, core readings, and topics in Science and Technology Studies. This year we will primarily be concened with science and the question of subjectivity. We will begin with the early modern staging of this question in the […]
Anthropology 495A/540B: Anthropology of Science and Technology
Instructor: Candis Callison Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Fridays 9:30-11:00am Course Description Anthropologies of science and technology approach science as both a culture and practice, examining how facts are made, how they circulate, and how they come to matter for diverse publics. Such approaches to knowledge production, institutional contexts, and the emergence of new forms […]
SPPH 581T: Science, Values, and Public Policy
Instructor: Daniel Steel Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Mondays 9:00am-12:00pm This course examines current philosophical debates on issues generated from the intersection of science, human values, and public welfare. Topics include the relationship between science and marginalized groups, biomedical science and neglected diseases, sponsorship bias, the value-free ideal and alternatives to it, and the precautionary […]
English 311: History and Theory of Rhetoric: The Later Theory
Instructor: Ian Hill Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 10:00-11:00am This course examines the development of rhetorical theory within the context of the major epochs of western European intellectual history. Beginning with St. Augustine and his advocacy of rhetoric as essential to spreading Christianity in the early medieval period, the course will […]
English 310: Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Persuasion
Instructors: Judy Segal Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00am-12:30pm Rhetoric is the art of persuasion or influence—and the study of that art. Rhetorical theory offers a method for discovering the means of persuasion in public and private life, in institutional and social settings, across a range of media and genres. There is […]
English 309: Rhetoric of Science and Medicine
Instructors: Judy Segal Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 2:00-3:00pm The central question for rhetorical study in general is, “In this (particular) situation, who is persuading whom of what, and what are the means of persuasion?” The starting point for the question is the understanding that we are, each of us, engaged […]
STS 598A: Doctoral Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: TBD Section: 001 Term: 1+2 Meets: TBD This course plays a critical role in the STS Graduate Program and is designed to provide students from various backgrounds with a critical understanding of the concepts and methodologies central to the study of science and technology from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. A […]
STS 597: Master’s Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: TBD Section: 001 Term: 1+2 Meets: TBD This course plays a critical role in the STS Graduate Program and is designed to provide students from various backgrounds with a critical understanding of the concepts and methodologies central to the study of science and technology from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. A […]
Philosophy 560A: Philosophy of Science
Instructor: Paul Bartha Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Wednesdays 11:00am-2:00pm Course description coming soon. Register here: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=5&dept=PHIL&course=560A§ion=001
English 539A: Modernism, Mass Bodies, and Crowd Politics
Instructor: Judith Paltin Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Tuesdays 9:30am-12:30pm From the late nineteenth century until after the two world wars the crowd appears as a peculiar obsession in sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and in popular and intellectual news-streams. In this period, “mass psychology” became a recognized disciplinary field of both research and speculation, […]
