Courses offered by the STS Program are listed below along with courses in other departments and programs that fulfill requirements for the STS major, minor, and/or honors program. When available, the course number is linked to the most recent syllabus. Not all courses are given each year; the quarter listed below is the quarter in which the course will next be given or was last given. See the STS section of the current Stanford Bulletin or the Time Schedule for further information.
| Course # |
Title |
Instructor |
Quarter |
STS
101/201/
ENGR 130 |
Science, Technology & Contemporary Society |
McGinn |
Autumn |
| STS
101Q |
Introductory Seminar:
Technology in Contemporary
Society |
McGinn |
Autumn |
| STS
110/ MS&E 197/ PUBPOL 103B |
Ethics & Public Policy |
McGinn |
Winter |
STS
112/
CLASSART 113/213 |
Ten Things: Science, Technology & Design |
Shanks |
Winter |
STS
114/
ENGLISH 153G |
Technology, Ecology & the Imagination of the
Future |
Heise |
Spring |
| STS
115/ ENGR 131 |
Ethical Issues in Engineering |
McGinn |
Spring |
STS
120/
CLASSHIS 131 |
Science & Technology in Ancient Egyptian Society
|
Manning |
Winter |
STS
125/225
HISTORY 31 |
Science, Technology & Art:
The Worlds of
Leonardo |
Findlen |
Winter |
| STS 128/ EE 45 |
Science & Technology in WW II
and What
Happened Afterward |
Osgood |
Spring |
STS 134/
HISTORY 241G/341G |
History of the Senses |
Riskin |
Spring |
| STS 144 |
Game Studies: Issues in Design, Technology, and Player Creativity |
Lowood |
Spring |
| STS 145
|
History of Computer Game Design: Technology, Culture
& Business |
Lowood |
Winter |
| STS
160 |
Controversy & Closure: The Politics of Technical
Expertise |
Slayton |
Winter |
| STS
165 |
Science & Engineering in the Security State |
Slayton |
Spring |
| STS
170 |
Technology & Modern Security Discourse |
Slayton |
Autumn |
| STS
176 |
Technology & Politics |
Windham |
Autumn |
| STS
190 |
Honors Seminar |
Slayton |
Spring |
| STS 195 |
Honors Research |
Staff |
Aut, Win, Spr |
| STS 199 |
Individual Work |
Staff |
Aut, Win, Spr |
| STS
200 |
Senior Colloquium |
Dupuy, Heise |
Win, Spr |
| STS
210 |
Ethics, Science & Technology |
McGinn |
Spring |
|
STS 211/
FRENGEN 258E |
Foundations of Nanoethics: Toward a Rapprochement
between Europe and the U.S. |
Dupuy |
Spring |
STS 221/
HISTORY 257/357 |
The Politics & Ethics of Modern Science and
Technology |
Bernstein |
Spring |
| STS 222 |
The Role of the University in the Knowledge Economy
|
Rosenberg |
Winter |
| STS 299 |
Advanced Individual Work |
Staff |
Aut, Win, Spr |
| CASA
82 |
Medical Anthropology |
Kohrman |
Winter |
| CASA 132 |
Science, Technology & Gender |
Jain |
Spring |
| CLASSGEN 133 |
Invention of Science |
Netz |
Autumn |
| COMM 120 |
Digital Media in Society |
Turner |
Spring |
| COMM
169 |
Computers and Interfaces |
Nass |
Winter |
| COMM
268 |
Experimental Research in Advanced User Interfaces
|
Nass |
Win, Spr |
| CS 201 |
Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility |
Johnson |
Winter |
| ECON
116 |
American Economic History |
Wright |
Spring |
| ECON 224 |
Science, Technology & Economic Growth |
David |
Winter |
| ECON 226 |
U.S. Economic History |
Wright |
Spring |
| EDUC 224 |
Information Technology in the Classroom |
Walker |
Spring |
| ENGR 145 |
High Technology Entrepeneurship |
Gould, Byers |
Aut, Win |
| HISTORY
141 |
Minds and Worlds from Aristotle to Newton to
Einstein |
Riskin |
Spring |
| HISTORY 232F |
The Scientific Revolution |
Riskin |
Winter |
| HISTORY
232G |
When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo |
Findlen |
Spring |
| HISTORY
243G |
Tobacco and Health in World History |
Proctor |
Autumn |
| HISTORY
244C |
The History of the Body in Science, Medicine &
Culture |
Schiebinger |
Spring |
| INTNLREL
205 |
Ethics, Technology & International Relations |
McGinn |
Spring |
| ME
314 |
Good Products, Bad Products |
Beach |
Winter |
| MS&E
181 |
Issues in Technology & Work for a
Post-Industrial Economy |
Nelson |
Spring |
| MS&E 184 |
Technology and Work |
Bailey |
Autumn |
| MS&E
193 |
Technology & National Security |
Perry, Hecker |
Autumn |
| MS&E 281 |
Management and Organization of Research &
Development |
Nelson |
Autumn |
| OSPBEIJ 21 |
History of Science & Technology in China |
Ren |
Autumn |
| OSPFLOR 134F |
Modernist Italian Cinema |
Campani |
Autumn |
| PHIL
61 |
Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution |
Friedman |
Winter |
| POLISCI 114S |
International Security in a Changing World |
Sagan |
Winter |
POLISCI
116/
HISTORY 103E |
History of Nuclear Weapons |
Holloway |
Spring |
| PUBPOL 194 |
Technology Policy |
Windham |
Winter |
