[bioundgrd] FW: New Computing & Society HASS concentration

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Karen L Gardner <kgardner at mit.edu<mailto:kgardner at mit.edu>>
Subject: Please forward to your undergrads: New Computing & Society HASS concentration

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New Computing and Society Concentration

The new Computing and Society Concentration -- launched this academic year -- is an interdisciplinary concentration which includes classes from 9 different SHASS units.  To fulfill this HASS Concentration, students need to complete four out of the more than 30 subjects listed here: shass.mit.edu/compucon<https://shass.mit.edu/undergraduate/interdisciplinary/conc/computing>.

The goal of the concentration is to help students gain a greater understanding of how changes in computational power have refashioned fundamental questions about community, identity, democracy, and knowledge itself. Students will learn to analyze and reflect upon the social dimensions and consequences of the computational tools they use in their majors, research experiences, and professional enterprises. Armed with these skills, students will be empowered to factor new variables into their computing practice, think critically about how technologies are designed and applied, and pose new kinds of questions about the successes and failures of innovation. Please note that, while it may have particular appeal for students with a computational focus in their majors, this concentration is open to all MIT students.

To chose it as your concentration, fill out your concentration proposal form<https://studentformsandpetitions.mit.edu/> and then come in to meet with Prof. William Deringer during his office hours<https://sts-program.mit.edu/academics/undergraduate/office-hours/>  or write to him at deringer at mit.edu<mailto:deringer at mit.edu> if you aren’t available during those times.  Final-term juniors: remember that your concentration proposal deadline is Friday, February 7.


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Karen Gardner
Academic Administrator
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
77 Massachusetts Ave., E51-163f
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-253-9759 (phone)
617-258-8118 (fax)
sts-program.mit.edu<http://sts-program.mit.edu/>
http://web.mit.edu/hasts

pronouns: she, her, hers



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