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

AAS 301/SOC 367

Black to the Future: Science, Fiction, and Society

AAS 339 / EGR 339

Black Mirror: Race, Technology, and Justice

AFS 331

African Technologies and Technofutures

ANT 211

Surveillance, Technoscience, and Society

ANT 238

Human, Machine, and In-Between: The Anthropology of AI

ANT 245 / ENV 245 / AMS 245

Nuclear Princeton: An Indigenous Approach to Science, Technology and the Environment

ANT 325 / MAE 347 / SPI 384

Robots in Human Ecology: A Hands-on Course for Anthropologists, Engineers, and Policymakers

ANT 446 / ENV 364

Nuclear Things and Toxic Colonization

 

ARC 311

Building Science and Technology: Building Systems

BNG 407

Biotech: Innovation, Organization, Entrepreneurship

CBE 225/MSE 225/STC 225

Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science & Society Can Strive for Sustainability

CBE 260 / EGR 260

Ethics and Technology: Engineering in the Real World

CLA 231

Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients

COS 350

Ethics of Computing

COS 448/EGR 448

Innovating Across Technology, Business, & Marketplaces

COS 597I

Social Computing

ECO 326

Economics of the Internet: The Digital Revolution

ECO 416

Fintech

EGR 200

Creativity, Innovation, and Design

EGR 361

Reclamation Studio

EGR 495/ENT 495

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Critical Design Studio

EGR371

The Future of Work

ENE 422/MAE 422

Introduction to the Electricity Sector-Engineering, Economics, and Regulation

ENE 475 / PSY 475

Human Factors 2.0-Psychology for Engineering, Energy, and Environmental Decisions

ENV 238 / AMS 238

Environmental Movements

FRE 338/COM 332/

ENV 338

The Literature of Environmental Disaster

HIS 295

Making America: Technology and History in the United States

HIS 298

Information Revolutions

HIS 394/ENV 394

Thinking with Nature: Histories of Ecology and Environmentalism

HUM 346/ENG 256

Introduction to Digital Humanities

HUM/CLA/GHP/CHV 325

Bio/Ethics Ancient and Modern

LAO 383/ANT 283

Post Disaster Futures

MAE 354

Unmaking the Bomb: The Science &Technology of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and Verification

PHI 350/CHV 356

Ethics of Emerging Technologies

PHI 424 / CHV 424

Topics in Neuroethics: Cognitive Enhancements

PSY 333 / CHV 300 / CGS 333

Unlocking the Science of Human Nature

REL 303 . CHV 303

Biomedical Ethics

SOC 215

Sociology of the Internet

SOC 356

Sociology of the Cubicle: Work, Technology, and Organization

SOC 357

Sociology of Technology

SOC 377

Sociology of Climate Change

SOC/COS 409

Critical Approaches to Human-Computer Interaction

SPI 334/SOC 319

Media and Public Policy

SPI 353 / MAE 353

Science and Global Security: From Nuclear Weapons to Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence

SPI 365

Tech/Ethics

SPI 412

Science for Policy and Policy for Science

 

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