What is STS? Science, Technology, and Society (or Science and Technology Studies) is an interdisciplinary field of study that essentially looks at two issues: how science and technology impacts society (and culture); and how society (and culture) impacts science and technology (STS Wiki definition; Harvard definition). In the 21st century, I, as a professor of […]

This course, an introduction to Science and Technology Studies (STS), is designed to be an inquiry into questions that involve the production and cultural meanings of scientific knowledge and technological change. This course will compare the function and rhetoric of scientific “truths” to other modes of truth-production and consider the ways in which science is […]