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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: Please forward to your undergrads: New Computing & Society HASS concentration
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The new Computing and Society Concentration -- launched this academic year -- is an interdisciplinary concentration which includes classes from 9 different SHASS units. To fulfill this HASS Concentration,
students need to complete four out of the more than 30 subjects listed here: </span><a href="https://shass.mit.edu/undergraduate/interdisciplinary/conc/computing"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">shass.mit.edu/compucon</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The goal of the concentration is to help students gain a greater understanding of how changes in computational power have refashioned fundamental questions about community, identity, democracy, and knowledge
itself. Students will learn to analyze and reflect upon the social dimensions and consequences of the computational tools they use in their majors, research experiences, and professional enterprises. Armed with these skills, students will be empowered to factor
new variables into their computing practice, think critically about how technologies are designed and applied, and pose new kinds of questions about the successes and failures of innovation. Please note that, while it may have particular appeal for students
with a computational focus in their majors, this concentration is open to all MIT students.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">To chose it as your concentration, fill out your </span><a href="https://studentformsandpetitions.mit.edu/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">concentration proposal form</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> and
then come in to meet with Prof. William Deringer during </span><a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/academics/undergraduate/office-hours/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">his office hours</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> or write to him at </span><a href="mailto:deringer@mit.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">deringer@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> if
you aren’t available during those times. Final-term juniors: remember that your concentration proposal deadline is Friday, February 7.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Karen Gardner <br>
Academic Administrator <br>
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society <br>
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-163f <br>
Cambridge, MA 02139 <br>
617-253-9759 (phone)<br>
617-258-8118 (fax)<br>
<a href="http://sts-program.mit.edu/">sts-program.mit.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/hasts">http://web.mit.edu/hasts</a> <br>
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