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STS Course List

Courses offered by the STS Program are listed below along with courses in other departments and programs that fulfill requirements for the STS major, minor, and/or honors program. Not all courses are given each year; the quarter listed below is the quarter in which the course will next be given or was last given. See the STS section of the current Stanford Bulletin or the Time Schedule for further information.

Course # Title Instructor Quarter 
STS 101/201/
ENGR 130
Science, Technology & Contemporary Society McGinn Autumn 
STS 101Q Introductory Seminar:
Technology in Contemporary Society 
McGinn Autumn
STS 110/ MS&E 197/ PUBPOL 103B Ethics & Public Policy McGinn Winter
STS 112/
CLASSART 113/213
Ten Things: Science, Technology & Design Shanks Winter
STS 115/ ENGR 131 Ethical Issues in Engineering McGinn Spring
STS 128 Science & Technology in WW II
and What Happened Afterward
Osgood Spring
STS 144 Game Studies: Issues in Design, Technology, and Player Creativity Lowood Spring
STS 160 Controversy & Closure: The Politics of Technical Expertise Slayton Winter
STS 170 Technology & Modern Security Discourse Slayton Autumn
STS 180 Imagining the Computer, Wiring the World Slayton Spring
STS 190 Junior Honors Seminar Slayton Winter
STS 199 Individual Work Staff Aut, Win, Spr
STS 200 Senior Colloquium

Dupuy, Roberts

Winter

STS 210 Ethics, Science & Technology McGinn Spring
STS 221/
HISTORY 257/347
The Politics & Ethics of Modern Science and Technology Bernstein Spring
STS 290A, B, & C Senior Honors Seminar Slayton Aut, Win, Spr
STS 299 Advanced Individual Work Staff Aut, Win, Spr
ANTHRO 82 Medical Anthropology Jain Winter
ANTHRO 180 Science, Technology & Gender Jain

Autumn

CLASSGEN 123 Urban Sustainability: Long-Term Archaeologial Perspectives Shanks Winter
CLASSGEN 133 Invention of Science Netz Autumn
COMM 120 Digital Media in Society Turner Spring
COMM 169 Computers and Interfaces Nass Winter
COMM 268 Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces Nass Win, Spr
CS 181 Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy Johnson Winter
ECON 116 American Economic History Wright Spring
ECON 224 Science, Technology & Economic Growth David Winter
ECON 225 Economics of Technology & Innovation Moser Spring
ECON 226 U.S. Economic History David Autumn
EDUC 358X Developments in Access to Knowledge & Scholarly Communication Willinsky Winter
ENGLISH 176 Science Fiction: Techno Dreams & Nightmares Heise Winter
HISTORY 41A/141A The Emergence of Medicine: The Middle Age and the Renaissance Findlen Winter
HISTORY 140A The Scientific Revolution Riskin Autumn
HISTORY 208A Science and Law in History Riskin Winter
HISTORY 243G Tobacco and Health in World History Proctor Autumn
ME 314 Good Products, Bad Products Beach Winter
MS&E 181 Issues in Technology & Work for a Post-Industrial Economy Companys Autumn
MS&E 185 Global Work Hinds Spring
MS&E 193/193W Technology & National Security Perry, Hecker Autumn
POLISCI 114S International Security in a Changing World Blacker, Crenshaw Winter
POLISCI 116/
HISTORY 103E
History of Nuclear Weapons Holloway Spring
SOC 114 Economic Sociology Granovetter Autumn
SOC 115 Topics in Economic Sociology Granovetter Winter

 

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