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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "Karen Gardner"
<kgardner@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: Special spring subject:
"Better Living Through Chemistry"? History of Chemistry and
the Modern World</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:58:24
-0500</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Science, Technology and Society (STS) is
offering a special topics this spring on the history of
chemistry. It's not an obvious option in the subject
guide because the title is "Special Topics in STS." While
STS.095 is not labeled as a HASS Elective, students can request HASS
Elective credit for it by petition.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>STS.095 "Better Living Through
Chemistry"? History of Chemistry and the Modern World<br>
Instructors: Dr. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi and Prof. David Kaiser<br>
Prereq: None<br>
Units: 3-0-9<br>
Lecture: MW1-2.30 (1-375)<br>
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With astonishing power to manipulate matter, chemistry played a major
role in carving the modern material world and had a strong impact,
both positively and negatively, on the key phenomena of modern world
history, such as the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolutions, two World
Wars, and the post-WWII environmental crisis. This course will examine
the changing roles of chemistry and chemists in the modern and
contemporary society through the lives of selected chemists such as
Lavoisier, Mendeleev, and Pauling (the biographical approach) and by
focusing on hotly discussed topics (the thematic approach). This
course also addresses the question of how chemists geared their
experimental and conceptual tools towards "knowing by/for making,"
the secret of their manipulative skill. Primary documents are
supplemented by secondary reading and visual sources.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/sp11/STS.095/index.html"
>http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/sp11/STS.095/index.html</a></blockquote
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>For more information contact Yoshiyuki
Kikuchi (<a
href="mailto:ykikuchi@MIT.EDU">ykikuchi@MIT.EDU</a>).</blockquote>
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Karen Gardner<br>
Academic Administrator<br>
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-185<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
617-253-9759 (phone)<br>
617-258-8118 (fax)<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/sts">http://web.mit.edu/sts</a><br>
<a
href="http://web.mit.edu/hasts">http://web.mit.edu/hasts</a></blockquote>
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