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. 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 |
Science, Technology & Culture:
The Design of Ten Artifacts |
Shanks |
Spring |
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 |
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 |
|
STS 134/
HISTORY 241G/341G |
History of the Senses |
Riskin |
Spring |
| STS 145 |
History of Computer Game Design: Technology, Culture & Business |
Lowood |
|
| STS 160 |
Controversy and Closure: The Politics of Technical Expertise |
Slayton |
Winter |
| STS 161 |
Science on Stage |
Schmid |
Winter |
| STS 163 |
Risk in Contemporary Culture |
Schmid |
Spring |
| STS 165 |
Science & Engineering in the Security State |
Slayton |
|
| STS 170 |
Technology & Modern Security Discourse |
Slayton |
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 |
Roberts, Heise |
Winter, Spring |
| STS 210 |
Ethics, Science & Technology |
McGinn |
Spring |
STS 211/ FRENGEN 258E
|
Foundations of Nanoethics: Toward a Rapprochement between Europe and the U.S. |
Dupuy |
|
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 279 |
Technology, Policy & Management in Newly Industrializing Countries |
Forbes |
Autumn |
| STS 299 |
Advanced Individual Work |
Staff |
Aut, Win, Spr |
| CASA 82 |
Medical Anthropology |
Kohrman |
Spring |
| 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 |
|
Win, Spr |
| CS 201 |
Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility |
Roberts |
|
| ECON 116 |
American Economic History |
Wright |
Spring |
| ECON 224 |
Science, Technology & Economic Growth |
David |
Winter |
| ECON 226 |
U.S. Economic History |
|
|
| EDUC 224 |
Information Technology in the Classroom |
|
|
| ENGR 145 |
High Technology Entrepeneurship |
Byers, Komisar |
Winter |
| HISTORY 141 |
Minds and Worlds from Aristotle to Newton to Einstein |
Riskin |
Spring |
| HISTORY 232F |
The Scientific Revolution |
|
|
| 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 |
Barley |
Spring |
| MS&E 193 |
Technology & National Security |
Perry, Hecker |
Autumn |
| MS&E 281 |
Management and Organization of Research & Development |
Barley |
|
| PHIL 61 |
Philosophy and the Scientific Revolution |
Friedman |
|
| 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 |
