[Bioundgrd] Fwd: STS classes of interest in Fall 04

[Janice Chang]

>From:
>Judy Spitzer
>STS Program, MIT
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>         MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
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>                     STS Undergraduate Classes of Interest
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>                                  being offered in Fall 2004
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>-- STS.021   "History, Society, and Solid State Chemistry"
>(12 units, CI-H)
>Topics include the public sphere, the Nobel Prize, trust, discovery 
>credit, law and regulation, risk, large technical systems, science 
>fiction, gender and race, material culture, and high culture.
>
>-- STS.091   "What is Mental Health, and Why Do We Want It?"
>[Reading Sem in Humanities, Sci, Tech]   (9 units)
>Why is the science of mental illness so difficult, and so 
>contentious?  What is it like to BE mentally ill?  In what ways is 
>the expression of mental illness culturally and historically bound?
>
>-- STS.036    "Industrial Landscapes" 
>(12 units)
>Topics include the changing shape of cities and farms, land-use 
>patterns, the redesign of water systems, the construction of 
>roads/dams/bridges/irrigation systems, the creation of national 
>parks, ideas about wilderness, and the role of nature in an 
>industrial world.
>
>-- STS.048   "African Americans in Science, Technology, and Medicine"
>(12 units)
>Topics include the eugenics movement, the Tuskegee Syphilis 
>Experiment, the debate surrounding racial inheritance, and IQ 
>testing.
>
>-- STS.086j    "The Anthropology of Computing"
>(12 units)
>Examines computers anthropologically, as highly meaningful tools and 
>artifacts revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them.
>
>-- STS.085 / 6.805    "Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier"
>           in conjunction with Harvard Law School's:  "Digital Democracy"
>(3-0-9)   [Thursday 2-3:30pm at MIT & Tuesday 3-5pm at Harvard Law School]
>Prerequisites:  6.001, 6.033 or equivalent.
>The Harvard sessions will consider the impact of technology on power 
>relationships among governments, organizations and individuals.  The 
>MIT sessions will consider the policy and technology of privacy, and 
>provide background in policy and law relevant to internet issues.
>Classes will be interactive seminar format, with frequent writing 
>assignments.  Class space is limited due to requirements of the Law 
>School.  Enrollment by permission of instructor.  In awarding 
>places, first priority will go to those who request places this 
>spring.  ***To request a place, send email to Prof. Hal Abelson 
><hal at mit.edu>***.  Additional information will appear over the 
>summer on the course Web page: 
><http://mit.edu/6.805>http://mit.edu/6.805
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>For additional information on STS classes, please contact
>
>Judy Spitzer
>Undergraduate Coordinator
>Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
>E51-194, MIT
>617-253-4044;   jspitzer at mit.edu
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