STS Course Syllabi

The collection and posting of STS course syllabi is a project initiated within the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) as part of its outreach function. The project was conceived at a meeting in Cambridge, MA in January 2003. The goal is to make available to professors, students, administrators, and others with an interest in STS syllabi that reflect the most current approaches to teaching within the specialty area. Rather than limiting the collection to core STS courses, the desire is to provide users with a range of syllabi that capture diverse topics taught in this area.

The collection is organized by author, topic, level (undergraduate or graduate), program/department within which the course is taught, and language. By clicking on any one of these categories (in IE 5.0 or above), syllabi will be rearranged for your convenience.

This project is ongoing. New syllabi will be continually added and outdated ones deleted. Please consider contributing your own syllabi to the collection. You can easily do so by sending an electronic attachment to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), who is serving as coordinator of the web page. Each syllabus should include complete bibliographies. You also might include examples of projects, paper assignments, exams, or other material that you feel would be helpful. In the text of your message, indicate the level of instruction, the program/department within which it is taught, and language of instruction.

Thank you to all who have contributed syllabi. Also, thanks goes to the National Science Foundation, Program in Science & Technology Studies for funding the Workshop on Science & Technology Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, from which the idea for this project was initiated.

Professor	Topic	Level	Department/Program	Language
Akera1 .doc .pdf	Information Technology	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Akera2 .doc .pdf	Science & Technology Studies	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Balmer1	Science & Technology Policy	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Balmer2	Genetics and Society	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Chang1	Philosophy of Science	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Chang2	Hist & Phil of Physical Sciences	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Clarke (1)	Gender & Race	G	Sociology	English
Clarke (2)	STS & Medicine	G	Sociology	English
Clarke & Anderson	Medicine	G	Sociology	English
Delborne	Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Fox	Gender & Race	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Gregory1	History of Science	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Gregory 2	Scientific Revolution	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Gregory 3	Magic to Sciences	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Guay	Technology Studies	U	Sociology	French
Guston	Science & Technology Policy	G	Public Policy	English
Hausman (1)	Medicine & Anthropology	U	Anthropology	English
Hausman (2)	Anthropology of the Body and the Subject	U, G	Anthropology	English
Hess	Science & Technology Studies	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Hess (2)	Science & Social Theory	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Karvonen (1)	Nanotechnology	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Karvonen (2)	Engineering Ethics	U	Science & Technology Studies	English
Klawiter	Science & Technology Studies	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Leydesdorff (1)	Technology Studies	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Leydesdorff (2)	Sociology of Knowledge	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Mitcham	Science& Technology Studies	G	Science& Technology Studies	English
Monahan (1)	Technology Studies	U	Justice Studies	English
Monahan (2)	Technology & Globalization	G	Justice Studies	English
Monahan (3)	Technology of Surveillance	U	Justice Studies	English
Monahan (4)	Globalization & Technology	G	Justice Studies	English
Nelson	Cyborg Anthropology	U	Anthropology	English
Pielke (1)	Science & Technology Policy	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Pielke (2)	Science & Environment	G	Science & Technology Studies	English
Pinch	STS Intro	U	Sociology	English
Pinch (2)	STS and Music	U	Sociology	English
Rehg	Philosophy & Technology	G	Philosophy	English
Rosa (1)	Technology Studies	U	Sociology	English
Rosa (2)	Risk	G	Sociology	English
Scheiderer	Body	U	Other Interdisciplinary	English
Sonnenfeld	Technology Studies	U	Sociology	English
Tang	Science & Technology Studies	U	Sociology	English
Taylor (1)	Science & Technology Studies	U	Anthropology	English
Taylor (2)	Medicine	U	Anthropology	English
Taylor (3)	Medicine	U	Anthropology	English
Zehr (1)	Science & Society	U	Other Interdisciplinary	English
Zehr (2)	Sociology of the Environment	G	Sociology	English

Feature Films, Documentaries, and other Audio-Visual Resources with STS-related content

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1984

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Adjuster

Altered States (genetic experimentation, regression)

And the Band Played On, directed by Spotiswode. USA: 1993 (discovery of the AIDS virus)

The Andromeda Strain (alien virus)

Apollo 13 (technological failure & recovery)

Blade Runner

Brazil. Terry Gilliam's dystopian satire exploring the tensions between beauracracy, technology and human relationships

Capricorn One describes in fiction how a landing on Mars was not real, but filmed in a studio

The China Syndrome

A Clockwork Orange

Contact

The Conversation, surveillance, wiretapping, and dark struggles of the soul

The Day the Earth Stood Still (electricity)

Desk Set (office technology)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Equilibrium (2002) directed by Kurt Wimmer. In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death.

eXistenZ

Fail-Safe

Fairytale - A True Story (1997) featuring Arthur Conan Doyle (for) Harry Houdini (against) in the true story of contested photographs of fairies produced by two girls in 1920s England

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control human impulse to control nature, the nature of life & death, consciousness

Frankenstein

Gattaca

Een geschenk uit de hemel, De slag om de Brent Spar, Kees de Groot van Embden, 2000, VPRO-television, Hilversum.

The Governess

Human Nature (M.Gondry) Comments on the nature-human divide in post/late/modernity

Into Eternity (Madsen, 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194612/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoUkhOup1C4&feature=related

Kinsey

Kitchen Stories. A feature film based on a Swedish study in the 1950s of how bachelors use their kitchens. This is the last word on the anachronistic, social scientific ideal of "observation" without "participation."

The Man in the White Suit (plastics / new fibers)

Matrix trilogy

Metropolis

The Milagro Beanfield War (environment / water / politics)

Mindwalk, based on Fritjof Capra's book The Turning Point

Minority Report

Modern Times

The Mouse That Roared (atomic bomb humor)

The Net

Never Cry Wolf

Planet of the Apes (time travel, alternate universe)

The Prestige (using Tesla's alleged technology to perform magic tricks and the problems of teleportation)

Primer

Princess Mononoke

Quest for Fire (early human's maintain fire, lose fire, seek fire, learn how to make fire and weapons)

The Race for the Double Helix (original title Life Story) (1987, 97 minutes). Stars Jeff Goldblum as James Watson and Tim Piggot-Smith as Francis Crick. Follows Waton’s Double Helix faithfully and so contains numerous misrepresentations but is still a riveting portrayal of one of the century’s most consequential discoveries.

Robocop

The Russians Are Coming

Soft Science by Rachel Mayeri, a compilation of videos by artists and scientists she put together, as a resource. Topics include genomics, scientists, pharmecuticals, ecology, synthetic biology...

Soylent Green (environment / food industry)

Todo sobre mi madre - dir.Pedro Almodovar

Tron

The Truman Show

War Games

The Way to Eden (Robert-Adrian Pejo) Documentary about the craft of systematically taking apart bodies, and ultimately about dignity inside the iron cage of modern rationality.

Who Killed the Electric Car

The Wizard of Oz

STS Journals and Book Series

Science, Technology & Human Values
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Social Studies of Science
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Science As Culture
Science, Technology, and Development. 4S members may subscribe at half the usual price using this link.

Science, Technology, and Society: An International Journal Devoted to the Developing World

Gender, Technology, and Development

Science Communication (formerly Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization)

Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

Knowledge and Policy

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology

Scientometrics

Science and Engineering Ethics

Risk Analysis

BioScience

Science Studies