[bioundgrd] Fwd: Two new fall STS subjects and new website

[Janice Chang]

>From: "Karen Gardner" <kgardner at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Two new fall STS subjects and new website
>Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:11:25 -0400
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>The Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) is offering two 
>new subjects this fall and four in the spring.  The fall 
>descriptions are below, and all six are listed at 
><http://web.mit.edu/sts/academic/newsubjects.html>http://web.mit.edu/sts/academic/newsubjects.html 
>(including a new CI-H subject, STS.034 Science Communication: A 
>Practical Guide).
>
>Our classes offer students an opportunity to study how science and 
>technology are integral and determining elements of nature, culture, 
>and history. Nearly all STS undergraduate subjects carry either a 
>HASS-D or HASS Elective designation, and students can concentrate, 
>minor or double major in STS.
>
>Our website has recently been re-designed, and we have lots of 
>information for undergraduates posted at 
><http://web.mit.edu/sts/academic/undergraduate.html>http://web.mit.edu/sts/academic/undergraduate.html. 
>
>
>If you have any questions, please email me or our Undergraduate 
>Officer, Natasha Schull (<mailto:nds at mit.edu>nds at mit.edu), or stop 
>by STS headquarters (E51-185).
>
>STS.025 Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global 
>Perspective
>Prereq: None
>Units: 3-0-9
>Lecture: TR1-2.30 (<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=14>14N-112)
>
>Global survey of the great transformation in history known as the 
>"Industrial Revolution." Topics include origins of mechanized 
>production, the factory system, steam propulsion, electrification, 
>mass communications, mass production and automation. Emphasis on the 
>transfer of technology and its many adaptations around the world. 
>Countries treated include Great Britain, France, Germany, the US, 
>Sweden, Russia, Japan, China, and India. Includes brief reflection 
>papers and a final paper.
>M. R. Smith
>
>STS.032 Energy, Environment, and Society
>Prereq: None
>Units: 3-0-9
>Lecture: TR12-1.30 (<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=1>1-375)
>
>Examines national and global energy debates, namely energy security, 
>climate change, and energy access. Explores technological, market, 
>environmental, cultural and political "fixes" to the energy 
>question, as well as a wide variety of energy forms and 
>stakeholders. Evaluates development, nuclear security, environment 
>ethics, and conflicts between energy and food security. Includes 
>debates, presentations, group projects (in class and in the 
>Cambridge community), grant-writing, and individual written 
>assignments.
>C. Mavhunga
>
>
>All the best,
>Karen
>-------------------------
>Karen Gardner
>Academic Administrator
>MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
>77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-185
>Cambridge, MA  02139
>617-253-9759 (phone)
>617-258-8118 (fax)
><http://web.mit.edu/sts>http://web.mit.edu/sts
><http://web.mit.edu/hasts>http://web.mit.edu/hasts
>
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