[bioundgrd] FW: Program in Science, Technology and Society Offerings for Spring 2021

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Stephanie Brandao Carvalho <sbrandao at mit.edu<mailto:sbrandao at mit.edu>>
Subject: Program in Science, Technology and Society Offerings for Spring 2021
Date: January 20, 2021 at 12:10:35 PM EST

I hope this email finds you well! I am writing to let you know of subjects offered by the Program in Science, Technology and Science this Spring that we think would be of particular interest to your undergraduate students. Would you please kindly forward the below to your students?


STS.011 Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society
Tuesday/Thursday 11am – 12:30pm
Professor Robin Scheffler
http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=STS.011&style=verbatim

Can we design life to shape our future... should we? STS.011 examines the technologies, individuals and socio-economic systems that have worked to control and shape life through biotechnology with special attention focused on the biotechnology industry in Greater Boston.



STS.012 Science in Action: Technologies and Controversies in Everyday Life
Tuesday/Thursday 1-2:30pm
Professor Dwaipayan Banerjee
http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=STS.012&style=verbatim

What is the role of technology, the nature of scientific research and the place of politics in science?
Explore science in dynamic relation with social life and cultural ideas through humanities and social science research, ethnographic fieldwork, films, science podcasts, and experimental multimedia.



STS.030 Forensic History: Problem Solving into the Past
Monday/Wednesday 9:30-11am
Professor Kate Brown
http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=STS.030&style=verbatim
https://sts-program.mit.edu/academics/subjects/sts030-sp21/

How widespread was the bubonic plague? What caused the fall of Rome? Who introduced rice cultivation in North America—European colonists or African-born enslaved? How many people did Chernobyl radioactive contamination kill?
Forensic history marries the tools of scientists to the research agenda of historians to solve mysteries buried in the past. This course serves as a workshop to explore forensic history (a developing discipline) by following new pathways to research and write history in the 21st century.



STS.047 Quantifying People: A History of Social Sciences
Tuesday/Thursday 2:30-4pm
Professor William Deringer
http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=STS.047&style=verbatim
https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-quest-to-understand-human-society-scientifically-quantifying-people-0430

When did the “normal curve” become normal? How is “regression analysis” connected to the history of eugenics? How did deeply human phenomena like intelligence, crime, and marriage become the subject of metrics and equations? Explore the startling history of the search to understand human society scientifically, from the 1600s to today.



Thank you!



Stephanie Brandão Carvalho
Administrative Assistant II
MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society
sts-program.mit.edu<http://sts-program.mit.edu/>
http://web.mit.edu/hasts

pronouns: she, her, hers


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