Facilitator: Keith Douglass Warner, OFM; Center for Science, Technology & Society.
Our contemporary world is shaped by science and technology to such a profound degree that our students cannot be effective leaders and citizens without the capacity to critically engage the scientific and technological dimensions of society. This pathway invites students to understand the social values and social context of science & technology as social forces. It will provide opportunities for students from all majors to critically examine the practice of science, the social dimensions of technology, the role that these play in society, and the influences of social values on these. This pathway is open to all students interested in this topic, and one need not be a science or engineering major to choose it. Natural science and engineering majors will find it highly accessible because it includes required lower and upper division courses from these majors. Students in all majors are encouraged to take classes in the social sciences and humanities to integrate consideration of social values in their pathway. This pathway has roughly one hundred classes in it, but students should plan their upper division courses very carefully, since many of these are restricted to specific majors.
Associated Courses
Foundations Courses
(Please note that only the specific Foundation course topics qualify for the Pathway requirements, and only one Foundations course may be applied to a Pathway)
ENGL 2A Avant-Garde & Science
ENGL 2A Cosmology & Controversy
ENGL 2A Education & Identity: STS
ENGL 2A Empire: Self & Others
ENGL 2A Ethics & Activism
ENGL 2A Our Rhetorical Environments
ENGL 2A Paradigms of Knowledge
ENGL 2A Privacy, Gender & Identity
ENGL 2A Science Literacy in the U.S.
ENGL 2A Science, Ethics & Society
ENGL 2A Science, Technology, Self
ENGL 2A Technology & Cultural Knowledge
ENGL 2A Writing about Sustainability
ENVS 2A Analyzing Green Rhetoric
Anthropology
ANTH 1 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 2 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 5 Popular Culture & Bioanthropology
ANTH 130 Primate Behavioral Ecology
ANTH 132 Paleoanthropology
ANTH 133 Human Nutrition and Culture
ANTH 135 Human Development and Sexuality
ANTH 140 Food Culture & Environment
ANTH 145 Historical Ecology
ANTH 147 Archaeology of Complex Societies
Art & Art History
ARTH 186 History of Photography
Biology
BIOL 4 Light and Life L&L
BIOL 18 Exploting Biotechnology L&L
* BIOL 23 Investigations in Evolution & Ecology L&L
* BIOL 109 Genetics and Society
* BIOL 117 Epidemiology (cross-listed with PHSC 100)
BIOL 135 Biofuels: Sustainable Energy (cross-listed with ENVS 135)
* BIOL 144 Natural History of Baja
* BIOL 150 Conservation Biology
* BIOL 159 Plagues in the Age of Insects
* BIOL 171 Soc/Ethical Dimensions Biotech
Civil Engineering
* CENG 115 Civil Engineering Materials
* CENG 119 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 219)
* CENG 140 Water Resources Engineering
* CENG 143 Environmental Engineering
* CENG 144 Environmental System Designs
* CENG 161 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 261)
* CENG 219 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 119)
* CENG 261 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 161)
Chemistry
CHEM 1 Chemistry & the Environment
CHEM 5 Chemistry: An Experimental Science
CHEM 11 General Chemistry I L&L
* CHEM 11H General Chemistry I L&L: Honors
* CHEM 183 Senior Research Experience
Computer Engineering
* COEN 150 Introduction to Information Security
Communication
COMM 12 Technology and Communication
* COMM 106G Gender, Sexuality, and the Body (cross-listed with WGST 140)
COMM 120A Environmental Communication
* COMM 149B Science News:How to Report
* COMM 164A Race, Gender and Public Health (cross-listed with WGST 116)
COMM 176A Biology of Human Communication
* COMM 185A New Media and Communication
Economics
* ECON 111 Economics of the Environment
English
ENGL 138 Internet Culture & Info Society
Engineering
ENGR 60 Sustainable Electric Energy
ENGR 90 Solar Decathalon Workshop
ENGR 110 Engineering Projects Community
ENGR 160 Nanotechnology and Society
Environmental Studies
ENVS 2 Energy and the Environment
ENVS 10 Joy of Garbage
ENVS 20 The Water Wars of California L&L
ENVS 21 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENVS 22 Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENVS 23 Soil, Water, and Air L&L
ENVS 80 Energy and the Environment
* ENVS 84 Spirituality and Sustainability (cross-listed with TESP 84)
ENVS 120 Intro to Environmental Law & Regulation in the U.S.
ENVS 122 U.S. Environmental Policy
ENVS 135 Biofuels: Sustainable Energy (cross-listed with BIOL 135)
* ENVS 144 Natural History of Baja
ENVS 145 Environmental Technology
ENVS 146 Agriculture, Environment, & Development: Latin America
ENVS 147 International Environment & Development
* ENVS 152 Faith, Ethics & Biodiversity (cross-listed with TESP 152)
* ENVS 158 Conservation Psychology (cross-listed with PSYC 158)
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 156 Environmental Racism, Gender & Justice
History
HIST 85 Introduction to United States Environmental History
HIST 123 Plagues/Epidemics/Infections
HIST 125 History of the Senses
HIST 179 Science, Technology, Society
Liberal Studies
LBST 75 Technology and Education
Mathematics and Computer Science
CSCI 3 Intro to Computing & Applic
* CSCI 10 Introduction to Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering
* MECH 121 Thermodynamics I
* MECH 144 Smart Product Design
Management
* MGMT 177 Mgmt with the Internet for SME
Music
MUSC 119 Music, Technology & Society
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Operations and Management Information Systems
OMIS 34 Science,Info Tech, Busn & Soc
Philosophy
PHIL 9 Ethical Issues and the Environment
PHIL 80 Science, Technology, and Society
PHIL 83 Neuroscience, Values & Science
PHIL 117 Science, Technology, & Society
* PHIL 140 Philosophy of Science
Physics
PHYS 5 The Physics of Star Trek
PHYS 8 Introduction to Space Sciences
* PHYS 32 Physics for Scientists and Engineers II
* PHYS 111 Electromagnetic Theory I
Psychology
* PSYC 43 Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC 50 Ways of Knowing
PSYC 83 Neuroscience,Values & Law
* PSYC 110 Advanced Research Methods
* PSYC 120 Perception
* PSYC 130 Psychology of Learning & Thought Process
* PSYC 131 Cognitive Psychology
* PSYC 158 Conservation Psychology (cross-listed with ENVS 158)
Public Health
PHSC 1 Human Health and Disease
PHSC 28 Human Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 33)
* PHSC 100 Epidemiology (cross-listed with BIOL 117)
Religious Studies
* SCTR 35 Science vs the Bible: The Genesis Debates
* TESP 83 Dialogues Between Science & Religion
* TESP 84 Spirituality & Sustainability (cross-listed with ENVS 84)
* TESP 86 Spirituality & Engineering
TESP 139 Catholic Theology & Human Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 150)
* TESP 152 Faith, Ethics & Biodiversity (cross-listed with ENVS 152)
Sociology
* SOCI 49 Computers, Internet, and Society
* SOCI 120 Qualitative Methods and Applied Statistics
SOCI 149 Business, Technology & Society
Women's Studies
WGST 33 Human Sexuality (cross-listed with PHSC 28)
* WGST 116 Race, Gender and Public Health in the News (cross-listed as COMM 164A)
* WGST 140 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body (cross-listed with COMM 106G)
WGST 150 Catholic Theology & Human Sexuality (cross-listed with TESP 139)
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