Science in Action: Technologies and Controversies in Everyday Life

2-0-7 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

Explores how science and technology impact everyday life, through the lens of current controversies and debates. Students examine the role of scientific research, the tensions between human and technological boundaries, and how politics and culture shape technological practice. Subject materials draw from humanities and social science scholarship, documentaries, and other multimedia to explore science's dynamic and contested relationship with social life and cultural ideas. Students work to develop critical perspectives on how scientific practice intersects with society.