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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: Program in Science, Technology and Society Offerings for Spring 2021</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">January 20, 2021 at 12:10:35 PM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>STS.011 Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can we design life to shape our future... should we? STS.011 examines the technologies, individuals and socio-economic systems that have worked to control and shape life through biotechnology with special attention focused on the biotechnology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>STS.012 Science in Action: Technologies and Controversies in Everyday Life</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How widespread was the bubonic plague? What caused the fall of Rome? Who introduced rice cultivation in North America—European colonists or African-born enslaved? How many people did Chernobyl radioactive contamination kill?<br>
Forensic history marries the tools of scientists to the research agenda of historians to solve mysteries buried in the past. This course serves as a workshop to explore forensic history (a developing discipline) by following new pathways to research and write
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