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Science, Technology, and Society

Founded in 1976, the Program in Science, Technology, and Society attempts to increase human understanding of the human-built world. Read more about Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.

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Undergraduate Courses

Course #	Course Title	Term
STS.001	Technology in American History	Spring 2006
STS.002	Toward the Scientific Revolution	Fall 2003
STS.003	The Rise of Modern Science	Spring 2008
STS.005	Disease and Society in America	Fall 2005
STS.006J	Bioethics	Spring 2006
STS.011	American Science: Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices	Fall 2007
STS.014	Principles and Practice of Science Communication	Spring 2006
STS.029J	The Civil War and Reconstruction	Fall 2005
STS.035	The History of Computing	Spring 2004
STS.036	Technology and Nature in American History	Spring 2008
STS.038	Energy and Environment in American History: 1705-2005	Fall 2006
STS.042J	Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century	Spring 2006
STS.049J	Technology and Gender in American History	Spring 2004
STS.060J	The Anthropology of Biology	Spring 2009
STS.062J	Drugs, Politics, and Culture	Spring 2003
STS.062J	Drugs, Politics, and Culture	Spring 2006
STS.065J	The Anthropology of Sound	Spring 2008
STS.066	Brains and Culture: Love, Lies & Neurotransmitters	Fall 2002
STS.067	Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction	Spring 2005
STS.069	Technology in a Dangerous World	Fall 2002
STS.075J	Technology and Culture	Fall 2006
STS.085	Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier	Fall 2005
STS.086J	The Anthropology of Computing	Fall 2004
STS.S28	Godzilla and the Bullet Train: Technology and Culture in Modern Japan	Fall 2005

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Graduate Courses

Course #	Course Title	Term
STS.210J	Theories and Methods in the Study of History	Fall 2003
STS.210J	Theories and Methods in the Study of History	Fall 2004
STS.250J	Social Theory and Analysis	Fall 2004
STS.310	History of Science	Fall 2005
STS.320	Environmental Conflict and Social Change	Fall 2005
STS.330	History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology	Fall 2006
STS.340J	Introduction to the History of Technology	Fall 2006
STS.350	Social Study of Science and Technology	Spring 2004
STS.360	Ethnography	Spring 2003
STS.410J	Readings in American History Since 1877	Fall 2003
STS.415J	Nature, Environment, and Empire	Spring 2005
STS.420J	The Structure of Engineering Revolutions	Fall 2001
STS.428	Technology and Change in Rural America	Fall 2004
STS.429	Food and Power in the Twentieth Century	Spring 2005
STS.436	Cold War Science	Fall 2008
STS.445J	Technologies for Creative Learning	Fall 2004
STS.449J	Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech	Fall 2005
STS.461J	Integrating Doctoral Seminar on Emerging Technologies	Fall 2005
STS.462	Social and Political Implications of Technology	Spring 2006
STS.464	Cultural History of Technology	Spring 2005
STS.464	Technology and the Literary Imagination	Spring 2008
STS.467	Research Seminar in Deep Sea Archaeology	Spring 2002
STS.471J	Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System	Spring 2007

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