Ph.D. Minor in STS
What is the Ph.D. Minor in STS?
The Ph.D. minor (Option A) in STS is offered to graduate students who are candidates for a Ph.D. degree in another department or program. The minor is open to students in all campus departments, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The program is oriented towards helping students use insights from STS in their research and teaching.
What are the Admission Procedures to the Program?
All graduate students who are interested in the PhD minor in STS should consult as soon as possible with the STS faculty and the STS Program Director. Graduate students will choose, in consultation with the Director, an adviser from among the Program's faculty. The adviser will assist in planning the student's program of education.
Completion of course requirements must be arranged in close consultation with the STS faculty advisor and the STS Program Assistant Director.
What are the requirements of the STS Minor?
Students working on an STS minor are required to take one core graduate seminar, STS 901, which introduces students to the perspectives on science, technology, and society that transcend any single discipline. This course is team taught by program faculty. Students are also required to attend the STS brown bag training seminar and the STS speaker series. In addition, students in the Ph.D. Minor are required to take three courses from at least two of the four fields on the approved list of STS courses (below). Students may not count courses in their major field toward the minor. Total credits for these three additional courses should be no less than nine credits. Students are required to achieve a grade of B or better in each of these courses.
Students may request the inclusion of courses not on the approved list. An example is a relevant topics course. The request must be in writing and must include a copy of the course syllabus. Approval of the request must be received first from the student's STS advisor and then from the director of the STS program.
Courses for the Ph.D. Minor in STS
Core STS Courses
- STS 901, Ph.D. Seminar: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society
- STS 902, Research Seminar and Colloquium Series
- STS 903, Interdisciplinarity in the Modern Research University
Science, Technology, and Civic Affairs
- Curriculum and Instruction 675, Science in Daily Life: Literacy, Understanding, and Engagement
- Environmental Studies/Journalism and Mass Communication/Life Sciences Communication 860, Science and Environment Communication
- Interdisciplinary Courses in Engineering 650, Women & Leadership in Science, Medicine, and Engineering
- Industrial Engineering/Nuclear Engineering/Rural Sociology 708, Societal Risk Management of Technological Hazards
- Journalism and Mass Communication/Life Sciences Communication 960, Seminar: Science and Environmental Communication
- Law 905, Bioethics and the Law
- Law 906, Law, Science & Biotechnology
- Library and Information Studies 663, Introduction to Cyberlaw
- Library and Information Studies 863, International Cyberlaw and Policy
- Life Sciences Communication 375/875, Risk Communication
- Life Sciences Communication 902, Public Opinion in the Life Sciences
- Nuclear Engineering 571, Economic and Environmental Aspects of Nuclear Engergy
- Nuclear Engineering 574, Methods for Probabilistic Risk Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants
- Philosophy 565, Ethics of Modern Biotechnology
- Political Science 512, Science and Government
- Public Affairs 866, Global Environmental Governance
- Public Affairs 859, Globalization, Technological Change, and Regulatory Harmonization
Social Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Anthropology 365, Medical Anthropology
- Anthropology/Gender and Women's Studies 443, Anthropology by Women
- Anthropology/Medical History and Bioethics 678, Global AIDS: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Gender and Women Studies 530, Biology and Gender
- Gender and Women Studies 533, Special Topics in Women and Health
- Medical History & Bioethics 610, Regenerative Medicine and Society
- Medical History & Bioethics 726, Culture and Ethics of Body Modification
- Medical History & Bioethics 728, Bioethics and Society
- Rural Sociology/Sociology 612, Agriculture, Technology, and Society
- Rural Sociology/Sociology 610, Knowledge and Society
- Rural Sociology/Sociology 745, Sociological Perspectives on Science and Technology
- Rural Sociology/Sociology 927, The Political Sociology of Science
- Sociology 637, Sociology of Science
- Sociology 773 Intermediate Sociological Theory
- STS/Sociology 311 Biotechnology and Society
- STS 611,Gender, Science, and Technology
Historical Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Medicine
- History of Science 623, Studies in Early Modern Science
- History of Science 639, Technology and Its Critics Since WWII
- History of Science 720, Proseminar: Historiography and Methods
- History of Science 903, Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Science (*Topics course)
- History of Science 905, Seminar: Modern Physical Science
- History of Science 907, Seminar: History of Technology (*Topics course)
- History of Science 909, History of Biology and Medicine
- History of Science 911, Seminar: Eighteenth Century Science
- History of Science 913, Seminar: Social Aspects in the Development of Science
- History of Science 915, Seminar: Science in America
- History of Science 919, Graduate Studies in Medical History
- STS/Environmental Studies/History of Science/Medical History and Bioethics 513/713. Environment and Health in Global Perspective
Philosophical Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Philosophy 519, Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy 520, Philosophy of Natural Science
- Philosophy 521, Philosophy of Social Science
- Philosophy 523, Philosophy of Biology
- Philosophy 524, Philosophy and Economics
- Philosophy 554, Philosophy of the Artificial Sciences
- Philosophy 556, Topics in Feminism and Philosophy
- Philosophy 558, Ethical Problems Raised by Biomedical Technology
- Philosophy 920, Seminar in Philosophy of Science