Weekly Schedule

First Two Classes

• Week #1 (Tue., Jan. 16, 2007)
  Class introduction.  Class survey.  Vide “The Day After Trinity” (1980).
  Why “The Day After Trinity”?  Because in many respects STS issues came to the fore as such in association with critical responses to the development of nuclear weapons.  This video will provide some background. Assignment for next week: Read
  
• Week #2 (Tue., Jan. 23, 2007) Two Beginnings
  Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), selections
  Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1962), selections
  Vide “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring” (1992)
  Overview histories of STS relations and STS studies

Part I: Classic STS
Social Criticisms of Science and Technology

• Week #3 (Tue., Jan. 30, 2007) Mumford, Merton, Bronowski, Snow, Ellul, Schumacher, and Illich
  Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934), selections
  Robert Merton, “Science and the Social Order” (1938) and “The Normative Structure of Science” (1942)
  Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956)
  C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
  Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964)
  E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful (1973)
  Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (1971), Chapter 7, “Rebirth of Epimethean Man.”
  Tools for Conviviality (1973), Introduction and Chapter 1, “Two Watersheds.”
  
• Week #4 (Tue., Feb. 6, 2007) Part I continued
• Week #5 (Tue., Feb. 13, 2007) Part I continued

• Week #6 (Tue., Feb. 20, 2007) Technology Assessment
• Week #7 (Tue., Feb. 27, 2007) Professional Ethics
• Week #8 (Tue., March 8, 2007) Science and Technology Studies
• Week #9 (Tue., March 13, 2007) Catch up day
• Week #10 (Tue., March 20, 2007) Catch up day
• SPRING BREAK

• Week #11 (Tue., April 3, 2007)
• Week #12 (Tue., April 12, 2007)
• Week #13 (Tue., April 17, 2007)
• Week #14 (Tue., April 24, 2007)
• Week #15 (Tue., May 1, 2007)
• FINAL EXAM