Science, Technology, and Society

2026–2027

138 courses

STS.001Technology in American History
STS.002Finance and Society
STS.003Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks: A History of Science
STS.004Intersections: Science, Technology, and the World
STS.005Data and Society
STS.006Bioethics
STS.007Technology in History
STS.008Technology and Experience
STS.009Evolution and Society
STS.010Neuroscience and Society
STS.011Engineering Life: Biotechnology and Society
STS.012Science in Action: Technologies and Controversies in Everyday Life
STS.014Embodied Education: Past, Present, Future
STS.020History of Women in Science and Engineering
STS.021Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
STS.022Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice
STS.023Science, Gender and Social Inequality in the Developing World
STS.024Thinking on Your Feet: Dance as a Learning Science
STS.025Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
STS.027The Civil War and the Emergence of Modern America, 1861-1890
STS.029The Civil War and Reconstruction
STS.031Environment and History
STS.032Energy, Environment, and Society
STS.034Science Communication: A Practical Guide
STS.035Exhibiting Science
STS.036Technology and Nature in American History
STS.037Modern South Asia
STS.038Risky Business: Food Production, Environment, and Health
STS.039History of Native Science
STS.040A Global History of Commodities
STS.041Exercise is Medicine: From Ancient Civilizations to Modern Health Care Systems
STS.042Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century
STS.043Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir
STS.044Technology and Self: Things and Thinking
STS.045Alternatives: Indigenous Futurism and Science Fiction
STS.046The Science of Race, Sex, and Gender
STS.047Quantified: Numbers, Metrics, and Society
STS.048African Americans in Science, Technology, and Medicine
STS.049The Long War Against Cancer
STS.050The History of MIT
STS.051Documenting MIT Communities
STS.053Multidisciplinary Interactive Learning Through Problem-Solving
STS.055Living Dangerously: Environmental Problems from 1900 to Today
STS.056Social Life of the Brain: Neuroscience and Society
STS.057Sociology of Medicine, Health, and Illness
STS.059The Bioeconomy and Society
STS.060The Anthropology of Biology
STS.061Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000
STS.062Drugs, Politics, and Culture
STS.064DV Lab: Documenting Science through Video and New Media
STS.065The Anthropology of Sound
STS.066Discards, Technologies, and Everyday Ecologies
STS.067Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction
STS.069Technology in a Dangerous World
STS.071Cross-Cultural Investigations: Technology and Development
STS.074Art, Craft, Science
STS.075Technology and Culture
STS.076The History of Artificial Intelligence
STS.077The History of Computing
STS.080Youth Political Participation
STS.081Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, and Health
STS.082Science, Technology, and Public Policy
STS.083Computers and Social Change
STS.084Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
STS.085Foundations of Information Policy
STS.086Cultures of Computing
STS.087Biography in Science
STS.088Introduction to Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa
STS.089Spirit, Power, Intelligence: The Epic History of Electricity and Electronics
STS.095Independent Study in Science, Technology, and Society
STS.096Independent Study in Science, Technology, and Society
STS.250Social Theory and Analysis
STS.260Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society
STS.310History of Science
STS.320Environmental Conflict
STS.330History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology
STS.340Introduction to the History of Technology
STS.350Social Study of Science and Technology
STS.360Ethnographic Writing
STS.410Technology and Capital