The CSTMS community offers a wide range of courses in many departments, along with our own STS courses. Here is a selection of courses offered this Fall. If these look interesting to you, you will probably also like our PhD Designated Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies. Undergraduate Coursework For undergraduate courses, please visit the Townsend… Read more

Prof. David Winickoff and Dr. Samuel A. W. Evans have won a grant from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation to host a series of workshops and a working group on the global governance issues around geoengineering and synthetic biology over the 2012-2013 academic year. Containing technologies that pose security risks has been… Read more

As part of building the STS community with our new crop of PhD Designated Emphasis students, we are pleased to announce the creation of the STS Working Group, and encourage you to join us. The STS* Working Group is a group of scholars brought together by shared interest in STS practices and approaches. Our research… Read more

CSTMS will be hosting our yearly graduate student-organized conference on May 4th-5th.  This year’s focus is on “What’s New about New Materialisms?”. The first day of the conference will feature faculty presentations, including two keynote addresses, and the second day will feature papers by graduate students. The social sciences and humanities have long been engaged… Read more

How can we analyze and resolve the ethical issues inherent in engineering? This seminar-style, discussion-based course developed and taught by CSTMS Postdoctoral Scholar Mary Sunderland provides an introduction to how theories, concepts, and methods from the humanities and social sciences can be applied to ethical problems in engineering. Assignments involve a combination of group and independent research projects that… Read more

The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) at UC Berkeley has begun a new Special Project to explore the social and cultural dynamics of contemporary design. It is a chance to foster dialogue among the design studies community, professional designers and architects, historians, and science and technology studies scholars. These communities often engage… Read more

PhD students at Berkeley now have the option to add a Designated Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies (STS).  STS is a multidisciplinary field with the capacity to rethink the relationship between science and society in social and political life. To find out what the Designated Emphasis involves, and how to enroll, click here.

We are delighted to announce a new undergraduate Course Thread in Sciences & Society.  The Course Thread allows Berkeley undergraduates the opportunity to explore how the pressing problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic.  Find out more here, and start taking some classes!