STS 502: Feminist Science Studies
Instructor: Adam Frank Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm This seminar will serve to introduce graduate students to work done in the area of feminist science studies in the past thirty years, beginning with scholars such as Evelyn Fox Keller, Donna Haraway, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sandra Harding before moving to more recent work by Elizabeth […]
English 489: The Rhetoric of Pharmaceutical Marketing 1870-2013
Instructor: Judy Segal Section: 005 Term: 2 Meets: Wednesdays 2:00-4:00pm This is a course, in the first instance, in rhetoric: it examines strategies of persuasion within social and cultural contexts. Its topic is pharmaceutical marketing over time, and it addresses the relation between advertising discourse, on the one hand, and the consumer of health and health […]
STS 598A: Doctoral Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: TBA Section: 001 Term: 1+2 Meets: Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm 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. […]
STS 597: Master’s Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: TBA Section: 001 Term: 1+2 Meets: Thursdays 4:00-6:00pm 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. […]
STS 502: Core Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: TBA Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm This course is a coordinated grad seminar course with the Science and Technology Studies Program grad seminar: PHIL 514A 001. We will read a number of leading contributors to early modern science with the goal of deepening our appreciation of the metaphysical and methodological commitments that […]
STS 501: Proseminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructors: TBA Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm 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. This course is co-taught.
Biology 548E: Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity in the Real World
Instructor: Kai Chan Section: 201 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesdays 1:00-4:00pm This course will equip students to understand contentious social issues associated with biodiversity and to engage with these issues effectively. Such issues will include evolution and intelligent design, genetic modification of organisms, conservation and indigenous rights, and the commodification of nature. Preparing students to engage with […]
Resource Management and Environmental Studies 501: History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought
Instructor: John Robinson Section: 101 Term: 1 Meets: Tuesdays + Thursdays 9:00-11:00am History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought: Changes in attitudes towards human nature and non-human nature in Western society from hunter-gatherer times to the present; schools of environmental and sustainability thought. The course will be held in CIRS Policy Lab on Tuesdays and AERL 419 […]
Geography 423: Development of Environmental Thought
Instructor: Graeme Wynn Section: 201 Term: 2 Meets: Fridays 9:00am-12:00pm An examination of how attitudes toward human nature and non-human nature have changed from Mesolithic times to the present in Western society. Register here.
Philosophy 464: Philosophy of Biology
Instructor: Christopher Stephens Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tuesdays 2:00-5:00pm Methodological, historical, philosophical and social science questions about biology.
