Technology and Society Courses
You will select three courses that mix the scientific and technical with the societal and humanistic. These courses are offered across units on campus in all four divisions and provide an understanding of how the technological and the social intersect. They are distinguished through one or more of the following:
- a commitment to interdisciplinary analysis or putting disciplines into conversation,
- examining technical issues in social context and/or vice versa;
- to addressing societal systems as influenced or impacted by technical systems and/or vice versa;
- probing mechanisms and theoretical perspectives upon Technology and Society with broad domain application; and
- to investigate the ethical or responsible stance of the engineer with respect to addressing societal issues in emerging technologies.
For instance, the course may involve technical mechanisms for achieving societally responsible ends, such as code bases for eliminating bias in algorithmic systems, or societal mechanisms for achieving technically responsible ends, such as policy work or ethical training addressing new biological technologies. Here is the current list:
Course Designation |
Course Name |
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AAS 301/SOC 367 |
Black to the Future: Science, Fiction, and Society |
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AAS 339 / EGR 339 |
Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice |
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AFS 331 |
African Technologies and Technofutures |
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ANT 211 |
Surveillance, Technoscience, and Society |
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ANT 238 |
Human, Machine, and In-Between: The Anthropology of AI |
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ANT 245 / ENV 245 / AMS 245 |
Nuclear Princeton: An Indigenous Approach to Science, Technology and the Environment |
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ANT 325 / MAE 347 / SPI 384 |
Robots in Human Ecology: A Hands-on Course for Anthropologists, Engineers, and Policymakers |
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ANT 446 / ENV 364 |
Nuclear Things and Toxic Colonization |
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ARC 311 |
Building Science and Technology: Building Systems |
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BNG 407 |
Biotech: Innovation, Organization, Entrepreneurship |
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CBE 225/MSE 225/STC 225 |
Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science & Society Can Strive for Sustainability |
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CBE 260 / EGR 260 |
Ethics and Technology: Engineering in the Real World |
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CLA 231 |
Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients |
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COS 350 |
Ethics of Computing |
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COS 448/EGR 448 |
Innovating Across Technology, Business, & Marketplaces |
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COS 597I |
Social Computing |
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ECO 326 |
Economics of the Internet: The Digital Revolution |
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ECO 416 |
Fintech |
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EGR 200 |
Creativity, Innovation, and Design |
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EGR 361 |
Reclamation Studio |
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EGR 495/ENT 495 |
Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Critical Design Studio |
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EGR371 |
The Future of Work |
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ENE 422/MAE 422 |
Introduction to the Electricity Sector-Engineering, Economics, and Regulation |
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ENE 475 / PSY 475 |
Human Factors 2.0-Psychology for Engineering, Energy, and Environmental Decisions |
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ENV 238 / AMS 238 |
Environmental Movements |
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FRE 338/COM 332/ ENV 338 |
The Literature of Environmental Disaster |
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HIS 295 |
Making America: Technology and History in the United States |
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HIS 298 |
Information Revolutions |
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HIS 394/ENV 394 |
Thinking with Nature: Histories of Ecology and Environmentalism |
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HUM 346/ENG 256 |
Introduction to Digital Humanities |
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HUM/CLA/GHP/CHV 325 |
Bio/Ethics Ancient and Modern |
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LAO 383/ANT 283 |
Post Disaster Futures |
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MAE 354 |
Unmaking the Bomb: The Science &Technology of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and Verification |
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PHI 350/CHV 356 |
Ethics of Emerging Technologies |
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PHI 424 / CHV 424 |
Topics in Neuroethics: Cognitive Enhancements |
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PSY 333 / CHV 300 / CGS 333 |
Unlocking the Science of Human Nature |
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REL 303 . CHV 303 |
Biomedical Ethics |
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SOC 215 |
Sociology of the Internet |
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SOC 356 |
Sociology of the Cubicle: Work, Technology, and Organization |
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SOC 357 |
Sociology of Technology |
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SOC 377 |
Sociology of Climate Change |
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SOC/COS 409 |
Critical Approaches to Human-Computer Interaction |
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SPI 334/SOC 319 |
Media and Public Policy |
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SPI 353 / MAE 353 |
Science and Global Security: From Nuclear Weapons to Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence |
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SPI 365 |
Tech/Ethics |
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SPI 412 |
Science for Policy and Policy for Science |
Learn about other components of the Minor in Technology and Society:
- Core required course - Technology and Society (EGR/HIS/SOC 277)
- Cross-educational courses
- Capstone project
Get ideas for potential pathways through the program