Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Minor

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Requirements for the Minor:

Students wishing to minor in SMT must take six SMT courses from the list below, drawn from at least three different departments and including at least one of the SMT core courses.

SMT/STS Courses

Core Courses (1 course)

STS 101 - Intro to Science, Technology, and Society

Capstone Course

STS 498 - Science, Technology, and Society Senior Thesis 1
STS 499 - Science, Technology, and Society Senior Thesis 2

Electives

Anthropology

ANT 230 - Medical Anthropology
ANT 234 - Health and Healing in Africa
ANT 240 - Technology, Culture & Society
ANT 241 - Environmental Anthropology
ANT 258 - Anthropology of Media
ANT 272 - Psychological Anthropology

Art History

AAH 115 - Leonardo da Vinci: Science, Art, and Technology in the Early Modern Era
AAH 205 - The Art and Science of Painting
AAH 265 - Environmentalism and Globalization in Contemporary Art

Astronomy

AST 050 - The Solar System
AST 058 - Astrobiology: Life in the Universe

Biology

BIO 050 - Topics in Contemporary Biology
BIO 058 - Astrobiology
BIO 077 - Technology of Biology
BIO 094 - Understanding Cancer
BIO 243 - Bioinformatics: Information Technology in the Life Sciences

Chemistry

CHM 060 - Meals to Molecules
CHM 080 - Culinary Chemistry
CHM 090 - The Art & Science of Painting

Classics

CLS 153 - The Environment in the Ancient World
CLS 190 - Science and Technology in the Ancient World
CLS 192 - Ancient Medicine
CLS 193 - History Done Digitally

Computer Science

CSC 055 - Working with the Web
CSC 080 - History of Computing
CSC 103 - Taming Big Data: Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 104 - Robots Rule! Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 105 - Game Development: Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 106 - Can Computers Think? Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 107 - Creative Computing: Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 108 - Scientific Computing: Introduction to Computer Science
CSC 240 - Web Programming
CSC 243 - Bioinformatics: Information Technology in the Life Sciences
CSC 245 - The Computer Science of Computer Games

Economics

ECO 134 - Data Visualization
ECO 228 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
ECO 332 - Economics of Technological Change
ECO 335 - Economics of Health

Engineering Science/Engineering

ESC 100 - Exploring Engineering
ESC 104 - Geographical Mechanism Synth

English

EGL 140 - Introduction to Digital Studies: Digitizing the Past
EGL 276 - Literature of the Manor House
EGL 279 - Literature and Science
EGL 280 - Nature and Environmental Writing
EGL 281 - Environmental Psychology and the American Literary Landscape
EGL 284 - Interactive Fiction Workshop
EGL 306 - Jr. Seminar (Spring): The Beatles, Motown, and Taylor Swift

Environmental Studies

ENS 100 - Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENS 204 - Geographic Information Systems
ENS 208 - Waste Management and Recycling
ENS 209 - Renewable Energy Systems
ENS 222 - The New Wall of China
ENS 247 - Sustainable Infrastructure
ENS 252 - Geoenvironmental Applications
ENS 253 - Environmentally Friendly Buildings
ENS 277 - The Water Paradox
ENS 291 - Construction for Humanity
ENS 299 - Environmental Forensics
ENS 302 - U.S. Energy Policy

Geology

GEO 106 - Introduction to Oceanography
GEO 109 - Global Climate Change
GEO 110 - Introduction to Geosciences
GEO 112 - Environmental Geology
GEO 117 - Natural Disasters
GEO 120 - The Story of Earth and Life
GEO 220 - Mineral Science

History

HST 138 - Big History
HST 229 - The Adirondacks and American Environmental History
HST 256 - Modern European Ideas
HST 258 - Nazi Science, Medicine, & Technology
HST 269 - Epidemics and Empire
HST 286 - Technology & Empire
HST 291 - Construction for Humanity
HST 292 - History of Computing
HST 293 - History of Medicine
HST 299 - The Nuclear Age

Interdisciplinary

ISC 203 - Exploring Healthcare Through Community

Mathematics

MTH 051 - Cryptology: The Mathematics of Secrecy
MTH 056 - History of Mathematics
MTH 060 - Mathematics and Politics
MTH 221 - Mathematical Cryptology

Modern Languages in Translation

MLT 209 - The New Wall of China
MLT 208 - Chinese Medicine

Philosophy

PHL 232 - Philosophy of Science
PHL 233 - Early Modern Philosophy
PHL 265 - Minds and Machines
PHL 273 - Environmental Ethics
PHL 274 - Biomedical Ethics
PHL 374 - Advanced Biomedical Ethics

Political Science

PSC 123 - Topics in Mathematical Political Science
PSC 242 - Comparative Climate Change Politics
PSC 263 - US Environmental Policy
PSC 272 - The Environment, Energy, and US Politics
PSC 282 - Health Politics and Policy
PSC 283 - Social Movements, the Environment and Society
PSC 302 - U.S. Energy Policy
PSC 346 - Technologies in Society: Power, Politics and Economy across Industrial Revolutions
PSC 349 - Seminar: Comparative Politics