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Initiating Schedule

Week #1 (Tue., Aug. 26, 2008)
Introduction
  • Syllabus and survey. Videos: “The Day After Trinity” (1980) and/or “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring” (1992)

Why these videos? Because STS issues entered the post-World II public agenda via nuclear weapons and environmental pollution. These videos provide background.

Week #2 (Tue., Sept. 2, 2008)
Two Diverse Beginnings
  • Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), selections.
  • Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962), selections.
  • Overview histories of STS relations and STS studies.
Week #3 (Tue., Sept. 9, 2008)
Classic STS
  • Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values (1956).
  • C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959).
  • Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964), selections.
  • E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful (1973), selections.
  • Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (1971), selections; and Tools for Conviviality (1973), selections.
Week #4 (Tue., Sept. 16, 2008)
[Mitcham at EU Expert Committee meeting.]

Guest instructor: Jason Delborne

  • Daniel Kleinman, Impure Cultures: University Biology and the World of Commerce (2003).
Week #5 (Tue., Sept. 23, 2008)
Pro-science STS
  • E.O. Wilson, Consilience (1998), chapters 1-8
Week #6 (Tue., Sept. 30, 2008)
Pro-science and Pre-STS
  • E.O. Wilson, Consilience (1998), chapters 9-12
  • Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934), selections; and “Technics and the Nature of Man” (1966)
  • Robert Merton, “Science and the Social Order” (1938) and “The Normative Structure of Science” (1942)
Week #7 (Tue., Oct. 7, 2008)
Pre-STS
  • John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (1927), selections.
  • John Dewey, Freedom and Culture (1939), selections.
Week #8 (Tue., Oct. 14, 2008)
Catch-up day
Week #9 (Tue., Oct. 21, 2008)
Catch-up day
Week #10 (Tue., Oct. 28, 2008)
TBA
Week #11 (Tue., Nov. 4, 2008)
TBA
Week #12 (Tue., Nov. 11, 2008)
TBA [Mitcham at WPE 2008 London]
Week #13 (Tue., Nov. 18, 2008)
TBA
FALL/THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week #14 (Tue., Dec. 2, 2008)
TBA
Week #15 (Tue., Dec. 9, 2008)
TBA
FINAL EXAM


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