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