History 586D: Seminar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Instructor: Alexei Kojevnikov Section: 201 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays 3:00-5:30pm This seminar serves as an introduction to the field for graduate students from different backgrounds—humanities, social, and natural sciences. It will use seminal samples of research in the history of science, medicine, and technology, both classic and current ones, to teach major methodological approaches and genres of analysis, […]
English 509A: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Instructor: Judy Segal Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Thursdays 2:00-5:00pm Rhetoric, broadly defined by its interest in the persuasive element in human action and interaction, has a lot to offer critical studies of health and medicine. This course concerns itself, in the first instance, with the contributions rhetorical theorists and critics have made to Medicine Studies […]
English 491B (002): Feminist SF/ Feminist Science Studies
Instructor: Margery Fee Section: 002 Term: 2 Meets: Tues 2:00-4:00pm Science studies has begun to examine Western science from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives including the postcolonial (is Western science the only science?). the rhetorical and literary (embedded metaphors are invisible to scientists as they talk about “gold standards” and “Holy Grails”), the historical […]
Theatre 530A (001): Representing Illness and Disability in Theatre and Film
Instructor: Kirsty Johnson Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Tues 1:00-3:00pm In this course we examine representations of illness and disability in theatre and film. Drawing from an interdisciplinary literature across the humanities, we explore a range of theoretical and conceptual problems that attend investigations into the health-illness continuum in theatre, film and other cultural histories. […]
STS 599 (12): MA Thesis in Science and Technology Studies
Master’s students in the STS Program are required to complete a 12 credit research thesis. The grading system is pass/fail. Students will be expected to engage in original research culminating in the completion of a written thesis (no fewer than 50 pages) and an oral defense. A student’s research area and methods will require approval […]
STS 597: Masters Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Alan Richardson Section: 001+002 Term: 1+2 Meets: Thursdays 5:00-7:00pm 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 […]
STS 598: PhD Colloquium in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Alan Richardson Section: 001+002 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 […]
STS 502: Core Seminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Margaret Schabas Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm 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 undergird the pursuit of science. The course will be equally divided between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We will focus […]
Philosophy 560 (001): Philosophy of Biology
Instructor: Christopher Stephens Section: 001 Term: 2 Meets: Wed 2:00pm-5:00pm The theory of evolution raises a number of philosophical problems, many of which we’ll examine in this course. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to evolutionary theory and an examination of some of the historical issues surrounding the development of Darwin’s theory. We will discuss […]
STS 501: Proseminar in Science and Technology Studies
Instructors: Robert Brain + Adam Frank Section: 001 Term: 1 Meets: Mondays 2:00-5:00pm Varieties of Scientific Experience This proseminar introduces students to methods, core readings, and topics in Science and Technology Studies. This year we will primarily be concerned with questions of “experience” central to scientific experiment and observation, approaching these questions from a number of […]
