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Our E-List
Our E-List is the most direct way for members to stay updated with announcements about club events like discussion groups and movie screenings, our magazine publishing timeline and meetings, submission opportunities, professor talks, local STS conferences, and more!
What is the STS Department?
From the Tufts University School of Arts & Sciences STS Department website: Science, Technology, and Society draws on humanities and social sciences approaches to study science and technology in their social context. We have more than 40 faculty affiliates across Tufts University - from anthropology, biology, classics, education, engineering, history, mathematics, music, philosophy, physics, political science, urban and environmental policy and planning, and many more. This makes the STS program a site for rich cross-pollination of ideas and expertise. An interdisciplinary major and minor have been available since Spring 2016. (Tufts University)
The 10-course co-major must be declared in conjunction with another major, and pairs very well with science, humanities, social science, or visual and performing arts majors (Tufts University). The 6-course minor may be of particular interest to students majoring in the natural sciences or enrolled in the School of Engineering as a complement to their major technical fields (Tufts University).
Exciting and interdisciplinary courses are offered in the STS department---and cross-listed across multiple disciplines---each semester. Some recently offered examples include STS 32/ANTH 32 Introduction to the Anthropology of Science & Technology; STS 50-01 STS Lunch Seminar Series; STS 148/ANTH 148 Medical Anthropology; STS 12/HIST 12 History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; PHIL 0057/STS 0057/ENP 0028 Philosophy of Technology; CS 0028 Cyber-Security & Cyber-Warfare; ENG 0160 Environmental Justice and World Literature; SOC 0108 Epidemics: Plagues, People, and Politics.
