Fall 2020 Undergraduate 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.
 

Subject
Number
Title & Info Day & Time Instructor
STS.002
CI-H

Tier I

Finance and Society

HASS-S, 3-0-9
Lec Tues/Thurs 4-5
Rec Thurs 7-8 or Fri 12-1
Virtual
Synchronous
William Deringer
STS.006J/24.06J
CI-H

Tier I

Bioethics

HASS-H, 3-0-9
Lec: Available asynchronously, office hours and Q&A with instructors Mon/Wed 12-1
Rec (synchronous): Fri 10-11, 11-12, or 12-1
Robin Scheffler and Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt
STS.008
CI-H

Tier I

Technology and Experience

HASS-H, 3-0-9

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Mon/Wed 2:30-4
Virtual
Synchronous
Dwaipayan Banerjee
STS.021J/WGS.160J Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power

HASS-E, 3-0-9
Mon/Wed 1-2:30
Virtual
Synchronous
Ed Bertschinger
STS.026 (meets with STS.425) History of Manufacturing

HASS-H, 3-0-9
Tues 7-10 PM
Virtual
Synchronous
Merritt Roe Smith
STS.032 Energy, Environment, and Society

HASS-H, 3-0-9
Wed 7-10 PM
Virtual
Synchronous
Chakanetsa Mavhunga
STS.042J/8.225J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century

HASS-H, 3-0-9
Mon/Wed 1-2:30
Virtual
Synchronous

(lecture videos posted after class)
David Kaiser
STS.043 (meets with STS.443) Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir

HASS-S, 2-0-7

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

HASS-S, 2-0-7

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Tues 3-5
Virtual
Synchronous
Sherry Turkle
STS.075J/21A.500J Technology and Culture

HASS-S, 2-0-7
Fri 1-3
Virtual
Synchronous
Ben Wurgaft
STS.081J/17.395J Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health

HASS-S, 2-0-7

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Last class meeting will be 11/10
Tues 2-5
Virtual
Synchronous
William Bonvillian
STS.084J/22.04J Social Problems of Nuclear Energy

HASS-S, 3-0-9
Tues/Thurs 1-2:30
Virtual
Synchronous
R. Scott Kemp
STS.085J/6.805J
(meets with STS.487)
Foundations of Information Policy

HASS-S, 3-0-9

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Mon/Wed 2-3:30
Virtual
Synchronous
Hal Abelson, Michael Fischer, Danny Weitzner
STS.086J/21A.504J Cultures of Computing

HASS-S, 3-0-9
Tues/Thurs 11-12:30
Virtual
Synchronous
Héctor Beltrán