Courses Currently Approved for the STS Graduate Certificate
The graduate advisor 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 direcor to include courses not listed below.
The STS Core Course (History/STS 619, SI 719, AC 620, Anthro 658) and its extension, Advanced STS (History/STS 819) will next be offered in W23. Instructors: Elizabeth Popp Berman (Organizational Studies) and Mark Ackerman (School of Information).
The schedule for the upcoming semester of presentations in the STeMS Speaker Series (STS 571) will be posted here early in the term.
Below, please find the list of courses being offered that are pre-approved for the STS Certificate. For detailed descriptions and other class information, go to Department/School and Title in the drop-down lists below for links to the Course Guide.
Term Summary of Courses - F2022
STS
571 — STeMS Speaker Series / Colloquium
AmCult
658 — Digital Media Theory
URP
527 — Sustainable Food Systems
544 — Behavior and Environment
COMM
413 — Environ Comm
421— Media Law
464 — Mobile Communication
467 — Debating Politics and Science
755 — Unorthodox Research Methods
775 — History of Media Theory: The Humanities Tradition
Digital
658 Digital Media Theory
Engineering
Biomed 523 — The Business of Biology
Biomed 550 — Ethics and Enterprise
CEE 565 — Seminar in Energy Technology, Policy
CEE 567 — Energy Infrastructure Systems
CEE 588 — Environmental Finance
EHS
601 — Exposure Science & Health
602 — Essentials of Toxicology
HBHEDU
540 — Reproductive Health
550 — AIDS and Health Systems
610 — Public Health Ethics
613 — Racial and Ethnic Healthcare Disparity
614 — Women's Health & Reproduction
617 — Global Public Health
630 — Aging & Health Behavior
645 — Urban Health
654 — Consumer Health Informatics
668 — Health Communications
690 — Environmental Health
715 — Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genomics and Health
HHCR
HHCR 700 — Research in Health and Society
PIBS 503 — Research Responsibility & Ethics
NEUROL 470 — Science of
HMP
611 — Population Health
615 — Introduction to Public Health Policy
626 — Culture and Health Policy
630 — Business of Biology
668 — Introduction to Health Informatics
EDU
580 — Disability Studies
SEAS
475 — Environmental Law
480 — Climate Change
501.003 Revisiting the Flint Water Crisis
501.009 Principles of Infrastructure Sustainability...
See SEAS catalog for lots of other topics coures!
510 — Science and the Practice of Social Change
525 — Energy Justice
527 — Energy Markets and Politics
528 — Sustainable Food Systems
537 — Urban Sustainability
555 — Climate and Development
537 — Urban Sustainability
555 — Climate and Development
558 — Water Politics & Policy
560 — Behavior and Environment
561 — Psychology of Envir Stewardship
562 — Environmental Policy and Politics
564 — Localization: Transitional Thinking for the New Normal
574 — Sustainable Energy Systems
576 — Sustainable Finance
639.038 — Food Literacy for All
PubHlth
512 — Principles of Epid in Pub Hlth
Epid 506 — Intro to International Hlth
511 — Intro Pub Hlth Genetics
515 — Genetics in Public Health
530 — Public Health Communication
663 — Health, Evidence and Human Rights
677 — Epidemeology of Aging
813 — Public Health and Aging
SI
755 — Unorthodox Research Methods
SOC
445 — Diagnosis, Sex and Society
547 — Gender and Sexuality
575 — Sociology of Health and Healthcare
WGS
432 — Advanced Gender and Health
449 — Diagnosis, Sex & Society
Science Technology & Society (STS)
571 — STeMS Speaker Series / Colloquium
619 — Power and Knowledge in Science, Technology & Medicine
819 — Advanced STS
African and Afroamerican Studies
409 — Maternal/Child Health and Environmental Pollution in Africa
432 — Violent Environments: Oil
443 — Race, Gender and Health
457 — Africa-China Environmental Development
458 — Health and African Development
462 — Globalization and African Health
483/5 — Gender, Poverty, Medicine
495 — AIDS in Africa
596 — The History of Environmental Thought and Activism
662 — Health & Socioeconomic Development
American Culture
601 — Black Digital Studies T
610 — Intersectional Perspectives on Digital Culture and Technology
620 — Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine (Selcer, Rohde)
658 — Digital Media Theory
658 — Surveillance in Society
Anthropology
440 — Environmental Anthropology
458.002 Ethnography lab: Mexican Exposures
513 — Urbanization and Technological Change in Africa
548 — Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
554 — Media Anthropology
558.002 — Waterways
558 — Actor-Network Theory
561 — Issues in Bioanthro
563 — Mechanisms of Human Adaptation
658 — Science, Technology & Medicine (Selcer, Rohde)
675 — Technosemiotics: Technology, Media and Culture
Architecture and Urban Planning / Design
505 — Landscapes of Energy
506 / UP 533 — Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture
506.006 — Exercising Urban Sustainability
506.007 — Race, Space & Architecture
507 — Green Development
515 — Sustainable Systems
526 — Sociocultural Issues in Planning and Architecture
527 — Sustainable Food Systems
531 — American Space
532 — Sustainable Development
544 — Behavior and Environment
560 — Transportation and Land Use Planning
561 — Transport and Public Policy
603 — Certitude, Techno-science, and the Neoliberal Economy: Lineaments of a modern architecture
603 —Architecture and Psychology
610 — Food Literacy for All
701 — Theories in Digital Technology
824 — Architecture and Psychology
UD — 728 Health, Civil Infrastructure
729 — Sustainable City
UP 402 — Food Literacy for All
527 — Sustainable Food Systems
525 — Food Systems Planning
532 — Sustainable Social Change
540 — Land Use Planning and Development Management
542 — Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts
544 — Behavior and Environment
552 — Healthy Cities
553 — Sustainable Urban Architecture
556 — Healthy Cities Integrative Seminar
560 — Transportation and Land Use Planning
561 — Public Policy and Transportation
Asian Studies
ASIAN 551 - Practicum: Medical Encounters in Asia
Climate and Space Sciences & Engineering (formerly AOSS)
581 — Space Policy and Management
605.003 — Intergov't Panel on Climate
Communication and Media
405 — Health and the Media
413 — Environ Comm
421— Media Law
425 — Internet Society and the Law
428 — Gender, Media & Law
453 — Media in US History
458 — Media and Technology
460 — History of Technology and Modern Culture
464 — Mobile Communication
465 — Health Communication Behavior
466 — Global Digital Politics
467 — Debating Politics and Science
469 — Play and Technology
478 — Media and Globalization
610 — Intersectional Perspectives on Digital Cultures & Technology
755 — Unorthodox Research Methods
775 — History of Media Theory: The Humanities Tradition
776 — Media Theory and the Social Sciences
810 — Mobile Communication and Society
820 — Digital Publics
828 — Historical Approaches to Media & Technology
840 — Stories and Streams
840.002 — Special Topics in the Social Science Tradition
Digital Studies
658 Digital Media Theory
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
401 — Environmental Challenges in Africa and How Ecology Can Help
413 — Evolutionary Foundations of Medicine
525 — Science Writing
800.003 — Theory of Infectious Disease
800.004 — New World Agriculture
Engineering
Biomed 523 — The Business of Biology
Biomed 550 — Ethics and Enterprise
Chem 590 — Environmental Finance
Chem 597 — Regulatory Issues
Chem 696 — Technology Innovation, Law & Regulation
Engin 521 — Clean Tech Entrepreneurs
Engin 599 — Ethics for AI and Robotics
Enscen 530 — Engineering Climate Change
Enscen 686 — Environmental Sustainability
Enseng 501 — Seminar on Energy Systems, Technology & Policy
Enseng 532 — Sustainable Energy Systems
Enseng 567 Energy Infrastucture Systems
CEE 565 — Seminar in Energy Technology, Policy
CEE 567 — Energy Infrastructure Systems
CEE 588 — Environmental Finance
CEE 682 — Problems in Environmental Engineering
CEE 686 — Environmental Sustainability
CompSci Engineering — 598.007 Survellance Law & Technology
598.012 — Censorship and Privacy Technology
Mecheng 599.003 — Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Process
English
630 — Literature and History of Science
650 — Digital Media Theory
842 — Liberalism and Scientific Thought
Environmental Health Science
410 — Sustainabillity & Environ Health
500 — Principles of Environmental Health Science
504 — Genes and Environment
506 — Principles of Toxicology
580 — Conservation Biology
588 — Environmental Law
591 — Equality Issues in Environmental Health
594 — Global Environment and Health
597 — Environmental Health and Policy
601 — Exposure Science & Health
602 — Essentials of Toxicology
614 — Water and Global Health
615 — Water Quality and Human Health in the Great Lakes Region
683 — Air Pollution in Global Health
796.002 — Environmental Carcerogenisis
796.004 — Environmental Health Policy
Film, Television, and Media
FTVM 620 — Digital Media & Culture
FTVM 658 — Surveillance and Society
German
GERMAN 761 The History and Literature of Science
Health Behavior and Health Education
503 — Intro to Health Behavior
540 — Reproductive Health
550 — AIDS and Health Systems
603 — Population Change
608 — Healthy Cities Int Sem
610 — Public Health Ethics
613 — Racial and Ethnic Healthcare Disparity
614 — Women's Health & Reproduction
617 — Global Public Health
630 — Aging & Health Behavior
645 — Urban Health
654 — Consumer Health Informatics
661 — Sticky Health Communication
667 — Bioterrorism: Community Preparation & Response
668 — Health Communications
669 — Genetics and Health
690 — Environmental Health
710 — Women's Health
715 — Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Genomics and Health
Health and Healthcare Research
HHCR 700 — Research in Health and Society
PIBS 503 — Research Responsibility & Ethics
NEUROL 470 — Science of Medicine
Health Management and Policy
517 — Issues in Public Health Genetics
601 — Healthcare Quality
605 — Health Information Technology
611 — Population Health Informatics
615 — Introduction to Public Health Policy
617 — US Food Policy and Public Health
618 — Tobacco Social Policy
619 — Health Policy Process
624 — Health Policy in Developing Countries
625 — Comparative Health Pol & Managemnt in High-income Countries
626 — Culture and Health Policy
630 — Business of Biology
649 — Political Issues in Health IT
653 — Law and Public Health
657 — Ethical Frontiers
662 — Economics of Health Management Policy
664 — Health Policy Analysis
668 — Introduction to Health Informatics
674 — Economics of Health
681 — Ethical Issues in Health Care
685 — Politics of Public Health Policy
686 — Environmental Policy
802 — Introduction to Health Services Policy Research
809 — Logic and Methods of Medical Care Research
Health Science
HS 695 -- Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Trauma
History
594 — What is Capitalism
619 — Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, & Medicine (grad core; Selcer, Rohde)
620 — Global Health, Reproductive Medicine and Biopower
620 — Studies in the History of Medicine
682 — Environmental History
698 — Biopolitics and/as History
698 — Making Ancient Knowledge
819 — Advanced STS (meets w/ 619) (Selcer, Rohde)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
655 — Gender, Sex and Health
Organizational Studies
OS 495. Data, Work, and Organizations
Philosophy
424 — Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
511 — Philosophy of Social Science
560 — Topics in the Philosophy of Science
602 — The Philosophy of Science
Political Science
620 — Research in Politics and the Mass Media
688.004 — Political Economy H2O Governance
761 — Global Environmental Change and the State
School of Information
514 — Digital Humanities: Debates & Techniques
519 — Intellectual Property & Information Law
523 — Information and Control
529 — Online Communities
534 — Theories of Social Influence
538 — Citizen Interactive Design
540 — Privacy and Information Technology
547 — Engage with Communities
550 — Seminar on Information Policy
552 — Technology & Accesibility
554 — Consumer Health Informatics
605.001 — Interdisc Prob Solv: Countering ISIS via social media
610 — Intersectional Perspectives on Digital Culture & Technology
611 — Population Health Informatics
654 — Political Issues in Health IT
657/757 — Information, Technology and Global Development
667 — Digital Curation
680 — Computer-supported Cooperation
689 — Social Interaction Experience
710 — Knowledge Infrastructures
755 — Unorthodox Research Methods
School of Education
580 — Disability Studies
830 — History and Philosophy of Science Education
School of Environment and Sustainability
415 — Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology
457 — Environment and the Politics of (China's) Development in Africa
462 — Environ Rights, Justice and Law
475 — Environmental Law
480 — Climate Change
490 — War and Environment
501.002 — Science Communication for Sustainability
501.003 Revisiting the Flint Water Crisis
501.009 Principles of Infrastructure Sustainability...
See SEAS catalog for lots of other topics coures!
510 — Science and the Practice of Social Change
525 — Energy Justice
527 — Energy Markets and Politics
528 — Sustainable Food Systems
530 — Decision Making for Sustainability
537 — Urban Sustainability
555 — Climate and Development
557 — Industrial Ecology
558 — Water Politics & Policy
559 — International Environmental Law & Policy
560 — Behavior and Environment
561 — Psychology of Envir Stewardship
562 — Environmental Policy and Politics
563 — International Environmental Policy
564 — Localization: Transitional Thinking for the New Normal
565 — Principles for Transition
566 — Public Opinion and Environment
574 — Sustainable Energy Systems
575 — Climate, Economy & Policy
576 — Sustainable Finance
581 — Advanced Education for Environment and Sustainability
592 — Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts
593 — Environmental Justice: Research and Policy Development
594 — Poverty, Environment & Inequality
596 — History of Environmental Thot and Activism
605 — Green Development
615 — Renewable Electricity & the Grid
639.024 — Global Environ Change & Sustainable Food Systems
639.038 — Food Literacy for All
639.075 — Biodiversity, Conservation & Food Sovereignty
639.108 — Conservation Biology & Ecosystem Health
641 — Research Methods, Environment & Sustainability
664 — Food and Water Resource Questions
668 — Advanced Natural Resources Economics
669 — Environmental Economics
677.056 — Climate Change Adaptation
686 — Environmental Policy
School of Public Health
512 — Principles of Epid in Pub Hlth
514 — Public Hlth, Science and Environment
544 — Globalization & Health (Wilson)
584 — Hazardous Wastes: Regulation, Remediation, and Worker Protection (Batterman)
600 — Intro to Epidemiology
610 — Introduction to Public Health Policy (Colacino)
618 — Tobacco From Seedling to Social Policy
641 — Policies and Programs in Sexual and Reproductive Health
652 — Public Health Law
668 — Health Informatics
695 — Public health Policy Issues in Women's Health
Epid 506 — Intro to International Hlth
511 — Intro Pub Hlth Genetics
513 — Vaccines in Public Health
514 — Social Epidemiology
515 — Genetics in Public Health
530 — Public Health Communication
608 — Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology
618 — Global Social Epidemiology
663 — Health, Evidence and Human Rights
665 — Research Seminar in International Health
666 — Health and Socioeconomic Development
677 — Epidemeology of Aging
813 — Public Health and Aging
School of Public Policy
475 / 728 — Psychology of Climate Change
519 — Sustainable Energy Systems
563 — Environmental Policy
633 — Qualitative Research Methods
650 — Introduction to Science & Technology Policy Analysis
728 — Information Technology, Emerging Law, and Applied Policy
754 — Science, Technology, and Public Policy
761 — Politics of Health Policy
Sociology
445 — Diagnosis, Sex and Society
473 — Reproductive Health & Justice
474 — Health Inequalities
475 — Health, Medicine & Society
476 — Sociology of Bioethics
490 — Social Inequalities in Health
508 — Philosophy of Social Science
515 — Economic Sociology & Organizations
532 — Comparative Historical Sociology
547 — Gender and Sexuality
575 — Sociology of Health and Healthcare
580 — Disability Studies
800 — Science and Health
847 — Wkshop in Gender & Sex
875 — Workshop on Medicine, Aging, Science & Health
Women's and Gender Studies
400 Women's Reproductive Health
402 — Gender and Health Policy
410 — Reproductive Justice: Legal and Ethical Issues
432 — Advanced Gender and Health
438 — Gender, Health, and Well-being in Africa
443 — Race, Gender & Health
447 — Sociology of Gender
449 — Diagnosis, Sex & Society
801 — Feminism and Health