Certificate in
STS: Elective Courses
The STS program requires 12 credits of Elective Courses in addition to the 9 credits of Basic Courses. This list is updated periodically; relevant courses will appear in the undergraduate catalog that are relevant, in addition to those that appear here.
Email Dr. Mendelsohn, in advance of registration, to request approval of a course not listed here.
Students choose from among a large number of courses; typically, these courses have an interdisciplinary orientation that seeks to show powerful and creative inter-relationships between science and society or technology and society. Two of the electives must be upper-level (300 or 400 level) courses; please note that these courses may also serve to satisfy the CORE Advanced Studies requirement.
This page contains the list of lower-level (100 or 200 level) and upper-level (300 or 400 level) courses approved June, 2008.
D = CORE Diversity
F = offered Fall semester
S = offered Spring semester
Check Testudo to confirm information for all courses listed here and for courses that may be offered during the Winter and Summer terms.
Lower-level (100 or 200 level) approved courses:
Humanities and the Arts
Literature (HL):
- ENGL 278W Literature in a Wired World F
History/Theory of the Arts (HA):
- AMST 205 Material Aspects of American Life F
- ARCH 170 Introduction to the Built Environment F/S
- MUET 200 World Popular Musics and Identity (D) F/S
Humanities (HO):
- LARC 160 Introduction to Landscape Architecture S
- PHIL 140 Contemporary Moral Issues F
- PHIL 245 Political and Social Philosophy I S
- PHIL 256 Philosophy of Biology I S
Physical and Life Sciences
Sciences - Non-Laboratory Physical Sciences (PS):
- AOSC 123 Causes and Implications of Global Change F/S
- ENEE 189W Engineering Issues in Medicine S
- ENMA 150 Materials of Civilization F
- GEOL 123 Causes and Implications of Global Change F/S
- GEOL 124 Biogenesis: Making a Habitable Planet F
- PHYS 104 How Things Work: Science Foundations F/S
- PHYS 105 Physics for Decision Makers: The Global Energy Crisis F/S
Sciences - Non-Laboratory Life Sciences (LS):
- BSCI 205 Environmental Science F/S
- ENST 100 International Crop Production: Issues and Challenges in the 21st Century F
- PLSC 203 Plants, Genes and Biotechnology S
Sciences - Laboratory Physical Sciences (PL):
- GEOG 201 & 211 Geography of Environmental Systems F/S
- PHYS 106 & 107 Light, Perception, Photography and Visual Perception F/S
Sciences - Laboratory Life Sciences (LL):
- ANTH 220 Introduction to Biological Anthropology F/S
- BSCI 122 Microbes and Society F
- BSCI 124 & 125 Plant Biology for Non-Science Students F/S
- ENST 200 Fundamentals of Soil Science S
Social Sciences and History
Social or Political History (SH):
- HIST 174 Introduction to the History of Science S
- HIST 175 Science and Technology in Western Civilization F
- HIST 224 Modern Military History, 1494-1815 F
Behavioral and Social Sciences (SB):
- AMST 260 American Culture in the Information Age F/S
- ANTH 260 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics (D) F/S
- AREC 240 Introduction to Economics and the Environment F/S
- BIOE 150 Applied Ethics and Public Policy in Bioengineering F/S
- CPSP 227 College Park Scholars Capstone: Science, Technology and Society F/S
- ECON 200 Principles of Microeconomics F/S
- ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics F/S
- GEOG 130 Developing Countries (D) F/S
- GVPT 170 American Government S
- INFM 220 Information Users in the Social Context S
- KNES 287 Sport and American Society (D) F/S
- SOCY 100 Introduction to Sociology (ONLY sections with Dr. John Pease) F/S
- SOCY 105 Introduction to Contemporary Social Problems S
Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues:
- PHIL 261 Philosophy of the Environment F/S
Upper-level (300 or 400 level) approved courses:
Listed here are upper level courses. To petition for approval of a course not listed here, email Dr. Mendelsohn. They have not been listed because offerings change frequently; please examine the course catalog and petition for approval of courses that cross the boundary between science and society or technology and society.
Capstone Advanced Studies Courses
Capstone courses are open only to students majoring in these departments.
- ENSP 400 Capstone in Environmental Science and Policy F
- LARC 471 Capstone Studio S
- NFSC 422 Food Production Research and Development F
- NFSC 491 Issues and Problems in Dietetics S
- NRMT 470 Natural Resources Management
Additional Electives
These courses may be open only to majors, with special permission, or after completing prerequisites: consult Testudo carefully.
- ENGL 390 Science Writing S
- HIST 355 Civil War and the Rise of Industrialization, 1860-1900 S
- HIST 404 History of Modern Biology S
- HIST 407 Technology and Social Change in History S
- PSYC 309V Psychology of Video Games and Entertainment S
- PSYC 361 Survey of Industrial and Organizational Psychology S
- ANSC 453 Animal Welfare and Bioethics S
- AASP 441 Science, Technology, and the Black Community S
- AGNR 400 International Agricultural Extension and Development S
- AGNR 422 International Agriculture Science and Culture S
- ANTH 428L Human Adaptation S
- AOSC 434 Air Pollution S
- AOSC 401 Global Environment S
- ARCH 461 Sustainability in Architecture
Diversity Courses
- AASP 441 Science, Technology and the Black Community F
- AREC 365 World Hunger, Population and Food Supplies F
- AREC 445 Agricultural Development, Population Growth and the Environment F
- ECON 375 Economics of Poverty and Discrimination S
- EDCP 462 Disability in American Society F
- ENST 440 Crops, Soils and Civilization F
- JAPN 418A The Atomic Bomb in Literature and Memory; Japan and the United States S
- JOUR 453 News Coverage of Racial Issues S
- URSP 372 Diversity and the City F
- WMST 471 Women's Health S
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