Values in Science & Technology
Facilitator: Di Di, Assistant Professor, Sociology
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)
ARTH 12A Art, Trade & Cultural Exchange (effective 9/1/09)
ARTH 12A Exhibiting the Global (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A American Studies: Popular Culture (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Avant-Garde & Science (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Cosmology & Controversy (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Empire: Self & Others (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Ethics & Activism (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Ethics & Daily Life (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Ethics & the Environment (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Identity, Vocation & Community (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A International Waters: A Global Discourse on Water Conservation and Development (effective 3/25/17)
ENGL 2A Language & Politics (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Nostalgia, Homesickness, Exile (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Our Rhetorical Environments (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A/H Paradigms of Knowledge (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Privacy, Gender & Identity (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Race, Class & Taste (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Radical Responses to Sci&Tech (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Rhetoric & Discourse Communities (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Rock Pop Hip-Hop: Exploring Music (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Science, Ethics & Society (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Science/Fiction (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Science Literacy in the U.S. (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A Science, Technology, Self (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A/H Technology & Cultural Knowledge (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A The People of Tomorrow Today (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A The Rhetoric of the Economist (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A/H Trading Places: Art & Identity (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 2A What’s for Dinner? (effective 9/1/13)
ENGL 2A/H Writing about Sustainability (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 2A Analyzing Green Rhetoric (effective 9/1/09)
Accounting
*ACTG 134 Accounting Information Systems (effective 3/25/15)
Anthropology
ANTH 1 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 2 Introduction to Archaeology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 4 Vanished Peoples and Lost Civilizations (effective 09/01/16)
ANTH 5 Popular Culture & Bioanthropology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 130 Primate Behavioral Ecology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 132 Paleoanthropology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 133 Human Nutrition and Culture (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 135 Human Development and Sexuality (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 136 Forensic Anthropology (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 137 Evolutionary Medicine (effective 03/25/2011)
ANTH 140 Food Culture & Environment (cross-listed with ENVS 136; effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 145 Historical Ecology (cross-listed with ENVS 137; effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 147 Archaeology of Complex Societies (effective 9/1/09)
ANTH 197 Field Course in Primate Behavioral Ecology (effective 6/15/2013)
Art & Art History
*ARTH 140 Photography in the United States (formerly 186; effective 9/1/09)
ARTS 36 Ditto! The Technology of Print
Biology
*BIOL 1C Systems L&L (effective 9/1/18)
BIOL 4 Light and Life L&L (effective 9/1/09)
BIOL 18 Exploring Biotechnology L&L (effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 23 Investigations in Evolution & Ecology L&L (effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 109 Genetics and Society (effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 117 Epidemiology (cross-listed with PHSC 100; effective 9/1/09)
BIOL 135 Biofuels: Sustainable Energy (cross-listed with ENVS 135; effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 142 Natural History of California L&L (effective 1/1/23)
*BIOL 144 Natural History of Baja (cross-listed with ENVS 144; effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 150 Conservation Biology (effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 153 Conservation Science (cross-listed with ENVS 153; effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 159 Plagues in the Age of Insects (effective 9/1/09)
*BIOL 171 Soc/Ethical Dimensions Biotech (effective 9/1/09)
Civil Engineering
*CENG 115 Civil Engineering Materials (effective 9/1/09)
CENG 115L Civil Engineering Materials Lab (CENG 115 is a co-requisite; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 119 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 219; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 140 Water Resources Engineering (effective 9/1/09)
CENG 140L Water Resources Engineering Lab (CENG 140 is a co-requisite; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 143 Environmental Engineering (effective 9/1/09)
CENG 143L Environmental Engineering Lab (CENG 143 is a co-requisite; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 144 Environmental System Designs (effective 9/1/09)
CENG 144L Environmental Systems Design Lab (CENG 144 is a co-requisite; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 161 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 261; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 219 Designing for Sustainable Construction (cross-listed with CENG 119; effective 9/1/09)
*CENG 261 Sustainable Water Resources (cross-listed with CENG 161; effective 9/1/09)
Chemistry
CHEM 1 Chemistry & the Environment (effective 9/1/09)
CHEM 5 Chemistry: An Experimental Science (effective 9/1/09)
CHEM 11 General Chemistry I L&L (effective 9/1/09)
*CHEM 11H General Chemistry I L&L: Honors (effective 9/1/09)
CHEM 14 Advanced Chemical Principles L&L (effective 9/1/19)
*CHEM 183 Senior Research Experience (effective 9/1/09)
Child Studies
CHST 75 Technology and Education (effective 9/1/09)
Classics
CLAS 107 Scientists and Spartans (effective 9/1/23)
CLAS 171 Ancient Science and Technology: Atoms, Aqueducts, and Alchemy (effective 3/25/16)
CLAS 173 Bath and Body Works (effective 09/01/22)
Computer Engineering
*COEN 150 Introduction to Information Security (effective 9/1/09)
Communication
COMM 12 Technology and Communication (effective 9/1/09)
*COMM 106A Gender, Health, and Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 140; effective 9/1/09)
*COMM 113 Biology of Human Communication (effective 9/1/09)
COMM 120A Environmental Communication (effective 9/1/09)
*COMM 149B Science News:How to Report (effective 9/1/09)
*COMM 156A Health Communication
COMM 185A New Media and Communication (effective 9/1/09)
Economics
*ECON 111 Economics of the Environment (effective 9/1/09)
English
ENGL 25 Textual Editing (effective 03/25/17)
*ENGL 108 Writing in STEM (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 109 Information Culture and Information Society (effective 9/1/09)
ENGL 110 New Media in Theory and Practice (effective 1/1/21)
Engineering
ENGR 60 Sustainable Electric Energy (effective 9/1/09)
ENGR 90 Solar Decathalon Workshop (effective 9/1/09)
ENGR 110 Engineering Projects Community (effective 9/1/09)
ENGR 160 Nanotechnology and Society (effective 9/1/09)
ENGR 161 Globalization and the Cultures of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Cross-listed with MGMT 177; effective 9/1/09)
Environmental Studies & Sciences
ENVS 2 Energy and the Environment
ENVS 10 Joy of Garbage (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 20 The Water Wars of California L&L (effective 1/19/2016)
ENVS 21 Introduction to Applied Ecology L&L (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 22 Introduction to Environmental Studies (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 23 Introduction to Earth Systems L&L (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 80 Energy and the Environment (effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 84 Spirituality and Sustainability (cross-listed with TESP 84; effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 120 Intro to Environmental Law & Regulation in the U.S. (effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 122 Environmental Politics and Policy (cross-listed with POLI 157; effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 135 Biofuels: Sustainable Energy (cross-listed with BIOL 135; effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 136 Food, Culture and the Environment (cross-listed with ANTH 140; effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 137 Historical Ecology (cross-listed with ANTH 145; effective 3/11/2016)
*ENVS 144 Natural History of Baja (cross-listed with BIOL 144; effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 145 Environmental Technology (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 146 Agriculture, Environment, & Development: Latin America (effective 9/1/09)
ENVS 147 International Environment & Development (effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 152 Faith, Ethics & Biodiversity (cross-listed with TESP 152; effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 153 Conservation Science (cross-listed with BIOL 153; effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 158 Conservation Psychology (cross-listed with PSYC 158; effective 9/1/09)
*ENVS 185 Garbology (effective 01/01/18)
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 156 Environmental Racism, Gender & Justice (cross-listed with WGST 113; effective 9/1/09)
Experiential Learning for Social Justice
*ELSJ 135 Research in Social Entrepreneurship (effective 9/1/09)
History
HIST 24 Global History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (effective 3/25/23)
HIST 79/179 History of Technology: Steam to Cyborgs (effective 03/25/18)
HIST 85 Introduction to United States Environmental History (effective 9/1/09)
HIST 123 Plagues/Epidemics/Infections (effective 9/1/09)
HIST 124 Global History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (effective 3/25/21)
HIST 125 History of the Senses (effective 9/1/09)
HIST 184 American Historical Geography (effective 03/25/18
Intl Environment & Development
SIS 471-900T Intl Environment & Development Seminar I (American University Washington Semester Program)
Mathematics and Computer Science
CSCI 3 Intro to Computing & Applications (effective 9/1/09)
*CSCI 10 Introduction to Computer Science (effective 9/1/09)
*CSCI 10B Introduction to Computer Science B (effective 1/1/15)
Mechanical Engineering
*MECH 121 Thermodynamics I (effective 9/1/09)
*MECH 144 Smart Product Design (effective 9/1/09)
MECH 144L Smart Product Design-Lab (MECH 144 is a co-requisite; effective 9/1/09)
Management
MGMT 40 Foundational Knowledge of Managing for Sustainability (effective 09/01/18)
MGMT 41 Foundational Skills of Managing for Sustainability (effective 01/01/18)
MGMT 42 Leading from the Triple Bottom Line (effective 03/25/19)
MGMT 176 Sustainable Food Systems (effective 1/1/22)
MGMT 177 Globalization and the Cultures of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Cross-listed with ENGR 161; effective 9/1/09)
Music
MUSC 119 Music, Technology & Society (effective 9/1/09)
Neuroscience
NEUR 1 Introduction to Neuroscience (effective 09/1/18)
Operations and Management Information Systems
OMIS 34 Science,Info Tech, Busn & Soc (effective 9/1/09)
Philosophy
PHIL 22 Ethics in the Digital Age (effective 1/1/17; formerly PHIL 3A)
PHIL 22H Ethics in the Digital Age: Honors (effective 1/1/17; formerly PHIL 3AH)
PHIL 27/H Ethics in Health Care (effective 9/1/21)
PHIL 29 Ethics and the Environment (formerly PHIL 9; effective 9/1/09)
PHIL 40 Science, Technology, and Society (effective 9/1/09; formerly PHIL 80)
PHIL 83 Neuroscience, Values & Science (effective 2/11/2010)
*PHIL 153 Philosophy of Science (effective 9/1/09; formerly PHIL 140)
Physics
PHYS 5 Physics and Technology for Future Leaders (effective 9/1/09)
PHYS 8 Introduction to Space Sciences (effective 9/1/09)
*PHYS 32 Physics for Scientists and Engineers II (effective 9/1/09)
*PHYS 111 Electromagnetic Theory I (effective 9/1/09)
Political Science
POLI 157 U.S. Environmental Policy (cross-listed as ENVS 122; effective 9/1/09)
Psychology
PSYC 50 Ways of Knowing (effective 9/1/09)
*PSYC 53 Statistics and Methods Practicum (effective 03/25/18)
*PSYC 53L Statistics & Methods Lab (effective 9/1/19)
*PSYC 120 Perception (effective 9/1/09)
*PSYC 130 Psychology of Learning (effective 9/1/09)
*PSYC 131 Cognitive Psychology (effective 9/1/2009)
*PSYC 182 Psychology of Gender (effective 9/1/09)
Public Health
PHSC 1 Human Health and Disease (effective 9/1/09)
PHSC 28 Human Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 33; effective 9/1/09)
*PHSC 100 Epidemiology (cross-listed with BIOL 117; effective 9/1/09)
*PHSC 120 Technology Innovation and Public Health (effective 9/1/09)
PHSC 172 Management of Health Care Organizations (cross-listed with SOCI 172; effective 03/25/22)
Religious Studies
RSOC 99 Sociology of Religion (cross-listed SOCI 99; effective 09/01/22)
*SCTR 35 Science vs the Bible: The Genesis Debates (effective 9/1/09)
*SCTR 35H The Genesis Debates: Honors (effective 11/25/2015)
*SCTR 170 Darwin & God (effective 9/1/09)
*SCTR 170R RSS: Darwin & God (effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 64 Environmental Justice in Catholic Imagination (effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 72 Darwin, God & the Poets (effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 83 Dialogues Between Science & Religion (effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 84 Spirituality & Sustainability (cross-listed with ENVS 84; effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 86 Spirituality & Engineering (effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 139 Catholic Theology & Human Sexuality (cross-listed with WGST 150; effective 2/3/2016)
* TESP 141 Bioethics: Dignity and Justice (effective 01/01/24)
*TESP 152 Faith, Ethics & Biodiversity (cross-listed with ENVS 152; effective 9/1/09)
*TESP 157 Ethics in the Health Professions (effective 9/1/09)
Sociology
*SOCI 49 Tech, Social Media, and Society (effective 9/1/09)
SOCI 60 Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship---Leading Change (effective 9/1/21)
SOCI 99 Sociology of Religion (cross-listed with RSOC 99; effective 09/01/22)
*SOCI 120 Survey Research and Statistical Analysis (effective 9/1/09)
SOCI 128 Religion, Science, and Technology (effective 9/1/21)
SOCI 130 Design Thinking for Social Justice (effective 1/1/22)
SOCI 141 Climate Justice (effective 9/1/23)
SOCI 149 Business, Technology & Society (effective 9/1/09)
SOCI 152 Inequality in the Economy & Workplace (cross-listed with WGST 181; effective 03/25/23)
SOCI 172 Management of Health Care Organizations (cross-listed with PHSC 172; effective 03/25/22)
Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 33 Human Sexuality (cross-listed with PHSC 28; effective 9/1/09)
WGST 113 Environmental Racism, Gender & Justice (cross-listed with ETHN 156; effective 9/1/09)
*WGST 116 Race, Gender and Public Health in the News (effective 9/1/09)
*WGST 140 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body (cross-listed with COMM 106A; effective 9/1/09)
WGST 150 Catholic Theology & Human Sexuality (cross-listed with TESP 139; effective 3/3/2010)
WGST 181 Inequality in the Economy & Workplace (cross-listed with SOCI 152; effective 03/25/23)
* Indicates Course Has Prerequisites