ENVS 5110
Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Studies

Initiating Schedule

Week #1 (Tue., Aug. 46, 2010) 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., Aug. 31, 2010) Two 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. 7, 2010) Classic STS
Week #4 (Tue., Sept. 14, 2010) [Guest professor Jen Schneider]
  • Langdon Winner and nuclear power
Week #5 (Tue., Sept. 21, 2010) Pro-science STS
Week #6 (Tue., Sept. 28, 2010) Pro-science and Pre-STS
Week #7 (Tue., Oct. 5, 2010) Pre-STS
Week #8 (Tue., Oct. 12, 2010) Guest professor Jen Schneider
  • Engineering, development, and community
Week #9 (Tue., Oct. 19, 2010) TBA
Week #10 (Tue., Oct. 26, 2010) TBA
Week #11 (Tue., Nov. 2, 2010) TBA
Week #12 (Tue., Nov. 12, 2010) TBA
Week #13 (Tue., Nov. 16, 2010) Guest professor Jen Schneider
  • Kate Soper and alternative hedonism
FALL/THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week #14 (Tue., Nov. 30, 2010) TBA
Week #15 (Tue., Dec. 7, 2010) TBA
FINAL EXAM

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