Fall 2020 Graduate Subject Schedule

MIT students: Some of our instructors have opened their Stellar and Canvas sites for the first two weeks of class so that students can see available class materials and join the first sessions via Zoom, if they haven’t had a chance to register yet. Click on the subject numbers for the Stellar and Canvas links, which will be available through September 12th. If you have any questions, please email Carolyn Carlson.

For a full list of STS graduate subjects, visit the MIT Subject Listing & Schedule.

Subject Units Title Day/Time Room Instructor
STS.260 3-0-9 Introduction to STS Tues/Wed 1:30-3 Virtual
Synchronous
Robin Scheffler
STS.340 3-0-9 Introduction to the History of Technology Mon 2-5 Virtual
Synchronous
David Mindell
STS.360J/21A.829J 3-0-9 Ethnography

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Mon 9-12 Virtual
Synchronous
Michael Fischer, Byron Good, Eric Jacobson
STS.425
(meets with STS.026)
3-0-9 The History of Manufacturing in America Tues 7-10PM Virtual
Synchronous
Merritt Roe Smith
STS.430 3-0-9 Multi-Species Histories of Plant People, Wild and Cultivated (NEW) Wed 4-7 Virtual
Synchronous
Kate Brown
STS.443 (meets with STS.043) 2-0-7 Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir

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Tues 1-3 Virtual
Synchronous
Sherry Turkle
STS.444 (meets with STS.044) 2-0-7 Technology and Self: Things and Thinking

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Tues 3-5 Virtual
Synchronous
Sherry Turkle
STS.477J/21W.820J 3-0-9 Writing: Science, Technology, and Society Tues 7-10 PM Virtual
Synchronous
Ken Manning
STS.487
(meets with 6.085J/ STS.085J)
3-0-9 Foundations of Information Policy

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Mon/Wed 2-3:30 Virtual
Synchronous
Hal Abelson, Daniel Weitzner, Michael Fischer
STS.S91 3-0-9 Colonial and Postcolonial Disorders

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Tues 6-8:45PM Virtual
Synchronous
Michael Fischer, Byron Good, Joseph Gone