Santa Clara University

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

Executive Director: Geoffrey C. Bowker

The Center for Science, Technology, and Society offers an interdisciplinary minor in science, technology, and society. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop practical skills in computing, communications and networking, or data storage/retrieval; a sensitivity to the ethical issues relating to the uses of information technology; an understanding of the impact of information technology on social communities; the knowledge of how information technology can be used in imaginative ways; and an appreciation of the ways that information technology applications contribute to the common good.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR

Students must complete the following requirements for a minor in science, technology, and society:

• Four courses in programming, design, and applications from:
• ARTS 74, 75, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179
• CENG 5
• COEN 1, 12, 20, 44, 146, 148, 150, 174, 177, 178, 179
• CSCI 10, 61, 163, 164, 168
• MKTG 175
• MATH 178
• OMIS 17, 30, 31, 105, 107, 111, 113, 137

Three courses in human and social impacts and influences of information technology from:

• ANTH 151
• ARTS 70
• COMM 12, 160A, 161B, 162A, 180A, 181A, 182A
• CSCI 3
• ENGR 19
• LBST 75
• MGMT 161
• OMIS 34
• PHIL 117
• SOCI 49, 149, 160
• A minimum of four courses must be upper-division, including at least one upper-division course each from the two required sections above, and no more than three courses may be from the same department.
• Students must also attend at least four Center for Science, Technology, and Society symposia or colloquia and write brief critical summaries for a mentoring discussion and pass/no-pass evaluation by their minor advisor.