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Courses currently approved for the STS graduate certificate


The graduate committee has reviewed the courses listed below and deemed them appropriate for the STS certificate program. It will continue to review courses for inclusion on a yearly basis. Students may petition the grad committee to include courses not listed below. Bolded courses are being offered in the upcoming term.

African and Afroamerican Studies
433 - Activism in Race, Gender and Health (Haniff)
462 - Globalization and African Health (Stern)

483/5 - Gender, Poverty, Medicine (Fadlalla)
495 - AIDS in Africa (Ellsworth)
596 - The History of Environmental Thought and Activism (Taylor)
629 - Bodies, Technologies and Nature(s) in Africa (Hecht)

Anthropology
496 - Human Genetics, Disease and Culture (Bigham)
513 - Urbanization and Technological Change in Africa
541 - Environmental Anthropology (Kirsch)
543 - Demographic Approaches in Anthropology (Fricke & Renne)
548 - Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology (Peters-Golden & Renne)
558.003 - Actor Network Theory (Hull)
458/558 - Maternal/child Health, the Environment, & Pollution in Africa (Renne)
558 - Ethnography of Mining (Kirsch)
563 - Mechanisms of Human Adaptation (Frisancho)


Architecture and Urban Planning / Design
526 - Sociocultural Issues in Planning and Architecture (Swartzbaugh)
531 - Networked Cities (McCullogh)
532 - Sustainable Development: Resolving Economic & Environmental Conflicts (Campbell)
572 - Transportation and Land Use Planning (Levine)
650 - Advanced Urban Theory (Campbell)
671 - Public Policy and Transportation (Staff)

729 - Sustainable City (MacCullough)

Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Studies
581 - Space Policy and Managemeng (Fisk)

Communications
453 - Media in US History (Vaillant)
458 - Media and Technology (Vaillant)
466 - Society, Media & the Law (Sparr)
478 - Media and Globalization (Punathambekar)
775 - History of Media Theory: The Humanities Tradition (Scannell)
810 - Mobile Communication and Society (Campbell)
820 - New Media History and Theory (Ankerson)
828 - Historical Approaches to Media & Technology (Vaillant)

Engineering
567 Energy Infrastructure Systems (Lastoskie)
686 - Environmental Sustainability (Adriaens)

English
842 - Liberalism and Scientific Thought (Hartley)

Health Behavior and Health Education
661 - Communities in Crisis (Button)
667 - Bioterrorism: Community Preparation & Response

History
508 - Technology, Colonialism, and Development (Hecht)
576 - Epidemics (Permick)
606 - Technology, Knowledge, and Culture (Hecht)
619 - Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, & Medicine (grad core course; Hecht, Edwards)
620 - Global Health, Reproductive Medicine and Biopower (Hunt)
620 - Studies in the History of Medicine (Pernick)
620 - Colonial/Tropical Medicine (Hunt)
629 - Bodies, Technologies and Nature(s) in Africa (Hecht)
685 - Human Natures and Social Orderings (Carson)
674 - The Feeling of Things in Modern Southeast Asia (Mrazek)
698 - Systems, Networks, and Webs: History and Theory of Infrastructure (Edwards)
796 - Knowledge and Practice (Hecht)

LACS
655 - Gender, Sex and Health (Padilla)

Philosophy
560 - Topics in the Philosophy of Science (Belot)

Political Science
620 - Research in Politics and the Mass Media (Valentino/Traugott)
761 - Global Environmental Change and the State (Jacobson)

School of Information
500 - Information in Social Systems (Hedstrom, Finholt)
514 - Informatics and Health (Friedman)
528 - History of Computers and Networks (Edwards)
529 - eCommunities (Lampe)
541/741 - Systems, Networks, and Webs: History and Theory of Infrastructure (Edwards)
542 - Health Informatics (Friedman)
550 - Seminar on Information Policy (Rosenberg)
589 - History of Computers and the Internet (Edwards)
621 - Information, Ethics, and Applied Policy (Rezmierski)
648/748 - Infoculture: Theory and Methods in the History and Sociology of Information Technology
657/757 - Information, Technology and Global Development
719 - Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, & Medicine (grad core course; Edwards, Hecht)

722 - Theories and Models in Information Studies

School of Natural Resources and Environment
490 - War and Environment (Tucker)
501.089 - Seminar on Poverty, Environment & Inequality (Hardin)
501.092 - Justice Issues in Conservation & Sustainability (Miller)
527 - Energy Markets and Politics
561 - Psychology of Environmental Stewardship (De Young)
562 - Environmental Policy and Politics (Yaffee)
565 - Principles of Sustainability (Princen)
566 - Public Opinion and Environment
574 - Sustainable Energy Systems (Keoleian)
592 - Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts (Larsen)
593 - Environmental Justice: Research and Policy Development (Mohai)
664 - Food and Water Resource Questions (Princen)
686 - Environmental Policy (Rabe)

School of Public Health
506 - Introduction to International Health (Montro, Harlow)
509 - Evolution, Behavior & Public Health (Foxman
)
584 - Hazardous Wastes: Regulation, Remediation, and Worker Protection (Batterman)
615 - Introduction to Public Health Policy (Meadows, Douglas)
618 - Tobacco From Seedling to Social Policy (Warner)
641 - Policies and Programs in Sexual and Reproductive Health
652 - Public Health Law (Jacobson)
668 - Health Informatics (Friedman)
695 - Public health Policy Issues in Women's Health (Lantz)

School of Public Policy
510.003 - Political Environment of Policy Making (Parthasarathy)
650 - Introduction to Science & Technology Policy Analysis (Parthasarathy)
659 - Risk Management and Policy (Vinsel)

728 - Information Technology, Emerging Law, and Applied Policy (Rezmeirski)
754 - Science, Technology, and Public Policy (Duderstadt)

Sociology
475 - Introduction to Medical Sociology (Anspach)
575 - Sociology of Health and Aging (Anspach)

Women's Studies
432 - Gender, Health and Well-Being in Africa (Wyrod)
801 - Feminism and Health (Boyd)