science and society an undergraduate minor in sociology

Are You Interested In...

• Debates over important science and technology issues, like stem cell research, HIV/AIDS, and global warming?
• Identity, space, and place in a networked world?
• Challenges to scientific and medical education?
• Government surveillance and control?

The Science and Society Minor offers an opportunity for students to examine in a systematic and extended fashion the nature, significance, and development of modern scientific, technological, and medical enterprises. Science, technology, and medicine permeate modern society, and scientific developments often spark heated public debate. Yet undergraduate education rarely offers the chance to engage in systematic reflection upon how science influences society and how society influences science. The Science and Society Minor provides students from all academic majors with an innovative and inter-linked series of courses that permit precisely such a disciplined discussion of these issues.