Graduate Study Plans
To illustrate how different students might approach the STS certificate, we offer representative study plans below.
Student A. Focus on cultural and trans-national studies of technology
1. Rackham 619: Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine
2. History 606: Technology, Knowledge, and Culture (Hecht)
3. History 796: Knowledge and Practice
4. Information 648/748 - InfoCulture: Theory and Methods in the History and Sociology of Information Technology
5. Anthropology 513: Urbanization and Technological Change in Africa
Student B. Focus on environmental science, technology, and politics
1. Rackham 619: Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine
2. SNRE 574: Sustainable Energy Systems
3. SNRE 686: The Politics of Environmental Regulation
4. Urban Planning 532: Sustainable Development: Resolving Economic & Environmental Conflicts
5. Political Science 761: Global Environmental Change and the State (Jacobson)
Student C. Focus on medical anthropology
1. Rackham 619: Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine
2. Anthropology 548: Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
3. Anthropology 416/HBEHED 516 - Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
4. Public Health 655 - Gender and Health: Ethnographic Approaches
5. History 620: Studies in the History of Medicine
Student D. Focus on information technology, media, and public policy
1. Rackham 619: Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine
2. Communications 810: New Media Technology and Public Policy
3. Political Science 620: Research in Politics and the Mass Media
4. Information 621: Ethics, Values, and Information Dilemmas
5. Public Policy 728: Information Technology, Emerging Law, and Applied Policy
last updated 3/28/05