[bioundgrd] Fwd: Special spring subject: "Better Living Through Chemistry"? History of Chemistry and the Modern World

[Janice Chang]

>From: "Karen Gardner" <kgardner at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Special spring subject: "Better Living Through Chemistry"? 
>History of Chemistry and the Modern World
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:58:24 -0500
>
>
>Science, Technology and Society (STS) is offering a special topics 
>this spring on the history of chemistry.   It's not an obvious 
>option in the subject guide because the title is "Special Topics in 
>STS."  While STS.095 is not labeled as a HASS Elective, students can 
>request HASS Elective credit for it by petition.
>
>--
>STS.095 "Better Living Through Chemistry"? History of Chemistry and 
>the Modern World
>Instructors: Dr. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi and Prof. David Kaiser
>Prereq: None
>Units: 3-0-9
>Lecture: MW1-2.30 (1-375)
>
>With astonishing power to manipulate matter, chemistry played a 
>major role in carving the modern material world and had a strong 
>impact, both positively and negatively, on the key phenomena of 
>modern world history, such as the Enlightenment, Industrial 
>Revolutions, two World Wars, and the post-WWII environmental crisis. 
>This course will examine the changing roles of chemistry and 
>chemists in the modern and contemporary society through the lives of 
>selected chemists such as Lavoisier, Mendeleev, and Pauling (the 
>biographical approach) and by focusing on hotly discussed topics 
>(the thematic approach). This course also addresses the question of 
>how chemists geared their experimental and conceptual tools towards 
>"knowing by/for making," the secret of their manipulative skill. 
>Primary documents are supplemented by secondary reading and visual 
>sources.
>
><http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/sp11/STS.095/index.html>http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/STS/sp11/STS.095/index.html
>
>For more information contact Yoshiyuki Kikuchi 
>(<mailto:ykikuchi at MIT.EDU>ykikuchi at MIT.EDU).
>
>-------------------------
>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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