Politics and Policy

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

These courses are approved for one or more the STS concentrations but are not offered this academic year. You may find tabbing back to previous academic years in Explore Courses is helpful to see when courses have been offered historically. STS does not determine when courses in other departments will be offered as course offerings are at the discretion of the departments who own them.