All STS students in the MA program and in the PhD streams must register for STS 501, 502, and 597/598.
The following courses will all carry STS credit in the 2024/25 academic year. This list is not exhaustive—other course may count for STS credits with the approval of your supervisor and the STS program director. Students may register in these courses via the UBC Course Schedule.
STS Core Courses
STS501/PHIL560 (Alan Richardson)
STS 502/NURS 586 (Lydia Wytenbroek)
STS597 MA Colloquium (Alison Wylie and Aryan Karimi)
STS598 PhD Colloquium (Alison Wylie and Aryan Karimi)
STS599 MA Thesis
STS Related Courses Taught by STS Affiliated Faculty
Graduate Courses
HIST581D: Topics in Science, Technology and Sosiciety – AIDS and the Birth of Global Health (John Christopoulos)
Term 2, Mondays, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
This seminar examines how the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic across the world in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries transformed traditional approaches to international health and helped give rise to what we now call global health. The course takes a historical and multidisciplinary approach to understanding these developments.
PHIL364/HIST394 (John Beatty)
ARTH540: Textiles and Technology (T’ai Smith)
PPGA564: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (M. V. Ramana)
Term 2, Tuesdays, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
ENGL565: Studies in Environmental Humanities (Alexander Dick)
Undergraduate Courses
GMST325: The Culture of Nazism (Geoffrey Winthrop-Young)
Term 2, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30–5:00 p.m.
- Species resurrection (e.g., the back-breeding of the aurochs)
- Methamphetamine abuse and performance medicine
- Early instances of modern pseudo-science (e.g., World Ice Theory)
- Propaganda, chronopolitics and media technology
SLAV347A Science Fiction from Eastern Europe (Katherine Bowers)
Soviet science fiction and its interaction with the history of science and political systems/ideologies.
HIST/PHIL 260: Science and Society in the Contemporary World (Alexei Kojevnikov), Term 1
HIST 403: Nuclear Century: Science, Bombs, and the World Order (Alexei Kojevnikov), Term 2
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