Core Courses
The following courses form the present list of the 'core' courses from which students would draw on to develop an STS program. Additional courses may be added in the future.

• ECON 265 Development from the Ground Up, Prof. DeSilva
• HIST / PSY 172 History of Medicine and Psychiatry, Prof. Arikha
• HIST 161 Introduction to the History of Technology and Socio-Technical Systems, Prof.Moynahan
• HIST 251 Knowledge and Society in the Scientific Revolution, Prof. Stroup
• PHIL 220 Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Prof. Shein
• SHP 224 History of Science in the Post-War Period (1950-2000), Prof. Skiff
• SHP 222 History of Science Before Newton, NS. 222 (3000 B.C.E. to 1700), Prof. Skiff
• SHP 223 History of Science in the Modern Period (1700-1950), Prof. Skiff
• SHP 227 Philosophy of Science, Prof. Skiff

Partial List of Standing Cross-Listed Courses

• ARTH 113 History of Photography, Laurie Dahlberg
• ARTH 298 The History of the Museum, Susan Merriam
• BIO 125 Global Change, Catherine O'Reilly
• BIO 268 / PHIL 268 Issues in Bioethics
• CHEM 130 Chemistry of the Environment
• CHEM 135 Forensic Chemistry, Prof. Anderson
• CS 103 Great Ideas in Computer Science (and How They Make the Internet Work)
• CMSC 353 Modeling and Simulation, Sven Anderson
• FILM / IA 301 MC:Live Video and Systems of Surveillance, Jacqueline Goss
• FILM 362 Electronic Discourses: Art and the Internet, Jacqueline Goss
• HIST 167 The History of Sexuality, George Robb
• HIST 280A American Environmental History I: Nature, Ecology and Conservation, Prof. Lytle and Needham
• HIST 280B American Environmental History II: The Postwar Era, Prof. Lytle and Needham
• HIST 354 The Invisible World, Prof. Stroup
• HIST 2391, Reason and Passions, Prof. Stroup
• HIST 2500 From Sun Tzu to Suicide Bombing: The Evolution and Practice of Military Strategy, Tactics, and Ethics from Ancient Times to the Present, Prof. Carr
• HIST 3112 Plague!, Prof. Stroup
• HIST 3122 The Making of the Sunbelt, Andrew Needham
• HIST 3341 Infrastructure History: Technology, Society, and the Transformation of Modern Life from Standard Time to the Internet, Prof. Moynahan
• HR / SST 229 The Ecological Crisis : Radical Perspectives, Joel Kovel
• MATH 135 Game Theory, Prof. Halsey
• MATH 137 Mathematics of the Pre-modern Era, Prof. Suzuki
• MATH 322 Operational Research, Prof. Halsey
• MUS 345 Introductory Psychoacoustics, Robert Bielecki
• PSY 348 The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram, Stewart Levine
• SHP 111 Schroedinger's Cat and All That, Prof. Deady
• SHP 225 Einstein, Prof. Skiff
• SHP 227 Science and Pseudoscience, Prof. Skiff
• SST 370Introduction to Bibliography and Scholarly Editing, Vincent Giroud

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