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STS Minor

Students who wish to minor in STS must take STS 300, Introduction to Science and Technology Studies: The Automobile in American Life and Society, and four 3-credit upper division courses from the list below, with at least one upper-division course from each area (an asterisk indicates a course that contains some attention to the automobile):

A. Science, Technology, and Cultures

STS 310: 

Computers and Society 

STS 326: 

Gender and Science 

STS 340: 

Race and Evolution

STS 345: 

Cultural Ecology and Evolution 

STS 349:

Thomas Edison and His Era 

STS 3666:

Henry Ford and His Place*

STS 374:

History of Industrial Technology*

STS 386:

Comparative History of Technology* 

STS 403:

Issues in Cyberspace

STS 409: 

Growth, Ecology, and Evolution

STS 410: 

Darwinism and Philosophy

STS 430: 

Medical Anthropology

STS 485:

Philosophy of Science

STS 488:

Environmental Literature and Representation of Nature

B. Science, Technology, and Labor

STS 305: 

Social Issues in Auto Design* 

STS 310: 

Computers and Society

STS 321:

Labor in the American Economy*

STS 383: 

Labor in America*

STS 421:

Economics of the Labor Sector*

STS 441:

Sociology of the Auto Industry *

STS 442:

Sociology of Work*

STS 464:

Human Factors in Psychology

C. Science, Technology, and Environments

STS 301:

Concepts of Environmentalism* 

STS 305:              

Social Issues in Auto Design and Engineering*

STS 308:

Urban Geography 

STS 309:

Economic Geography* 

STS 312:

Environmental Ethics

STS 325:

Environmental Politics*

STS 365:

Environmental Psychology*

STS 3666:

Henry Ford and His Place*

STS 3695:

The American City*

STS 384:

Environment, Architecture, and Design* 

STS 484:

Technological Risk and Society