STS Cheat Sheet – Everything You Need to Know!

What is STS?

  • We’re an academic department in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).
  • Our scholars bring methods from the humanities and social sciences to understanding science, technology, and medicine around the world.
  • Learn more about our 16 faculty members and all of their areas of research here.

How do undergraduates engage with STS?

 

Want to learn more? Click on the links below to hear from an STS major…

What is an STS class like? How did your STS instructor support your learning?

How have STS classes provided a critical look at issues of race, racism and/or inequality?

How have STS classes influenced your approach to and/or view of your major course of study?

How do you think your STS classes will help you have an impact on the world through your profession?

 

AY 2023-2024 Undergraduate Subjects

Subject
Number
Title & Info
STS.001 Technology in American History
STS.004 Intersections: Science, Technology, and the World
STS.011 Biotechnology and Society
STS.012 Science Controversies in Everyday Life
STS.014 Embodied Education: Past, Present, Future (NEW) More Info
STS.021J Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
STS.038 Risky Business: Food Production, Environment, and Health
STS.041 Medicine in Motion (NEW)
STS.042J Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century
STS.043 Technology & Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir
STS.044 Technology & Self: Things and Thinking
STS.048 African Americans in Science, Technology, and Medicine
STS.055J Living Dangerously: Environmental Problems from 1900 to Today (NEW)
STS.065J The Anthropology of Sound
STS.075J Technology and Culture
STS.082J Science, Technology, and Public Policy
STS.084J Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
STS.086J Cultures of Computing

 

For Questions contact:

Undergraduate Officer

Professor Chakanetsa Mavhunga

E51-194C
617-324-2792
mavhunga@mit.edu

 

Academic Administrator

Karen Gardner

E51-163f
617-253-9759
kgardner@mit.edu