SCIENCE AT RISK? OUT OF THE LAB AND INTO PUBLIC SPHERE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

What happens when science enters the public sphere and when the public sphere enters science? Through the lens of sociology (alongside other disciplines) we will examine some of the most controversial issues facing science today, including biotechnology, science and religion, US knowledge of science, the need to increase the race and gender diversity of the science workforce and corporate funding of science. This course is welcome to students from all majors. It has no prerequisites.