Innovation and Organization

STS Sociocultural Courses

• Provide historical, social, cultural and/or political context for specific areas of science and technology in each concentration

• May include STS Program Core or Concentration Core courses not used to fulfill those requirements

• Electives must be part of a cohesive plan approved by the STS Associate Director

• See major requirements for more information

STS Concentration Core courses

CC, formerly Foundational

• Are specifically designated sociocultural courses directly relevant to the chosen STS concentration 
• Provide students with tools to critically engage with the knowledge and skills they are learning in their technical courses
• Cannot be double-counted with student’s choice of Program Core courses
• Cannot be substituted or petitioned

STS Technical Courses

• Courses involving lab work, engineering problems, coding, or other technical work in science, technology, or medicine

• Help build technical knowledge and skills relevant to the chosen concentration

• Students seeking the B.S. degree take more of these

• The majority of Technical Electives should be a sequence (or two sequences) of increasingly advanced levels. In general, introductory courses with little technical content will not be approved. 

• At least one sequence should be accompanied by either Concentration Core or Sociocultural Electives that allow you to examine and analyze its context and social consequences