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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Karen L Gardner <<a href="mailto:kgardner@mit.edu">kgardner@mit.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: New subject: STS.036 Science in American Life: 1920-2020
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">September 3, 2021 at 10:54:23 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is offering a new HASS-H class this fall which may be of interest to you! It is being taught by Prof. John Durant, Director of the MIT Museum. The course description is below and more
details about the class are posted on the class Stellar site (<a href="https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/fa21/STS.036/">https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/fa21/STS.036/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prereq: None <br>
Units: 3-0-9 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lecture:</b> <i>MW1-2.30</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Assesses the place of science in American public life from the 1920s to the present. Takes a historically inflected approach to examine the social relations of science in the modern United States. Examines science
and (in turn) religion, warfare, health, education, the environment, and human rights to explore how an international leader in science is also home to some of the developed world's most persistent forms of "science denialism." Examples include the denial
of evolution, human-induced climate change, and particular medical-scientific aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">This "We believe" poster/yard sign went viral in the early years of the Trump administration. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Today, you can buy lots of swag (posters, facemasks, apparel) etc. to this same design. </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">What does the appearance of this sign tell us about the place of science in American culture in recent years?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A full list of STS fall undergrad subject offerings <a href="https://sts-program.mit.edu/academics/subjects/undergrad-sched-fa21/">can be found here</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">Karen Gardner (she|her)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">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>
<a href="http://sts-program.mit.edu/">sts-program.mit.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt">to schedule a time to meet: </span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt"><a href="https://calendly.com/sts-kgardner">https://calendly.com/sts-kgardner</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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