Science and Technology

Science and Technology undergraduate study focuses on science and technology (or technoscience) in a societal context: how technoscience influences society, and how society influences technosciences. Courses provide historical and analytical approaches to questions inevitably confronting professional scientists, engineers, managers, and policy makers in both public and private sectors. Such questions concern, for example, professional ethical responsibilities, intellectual property rights, science policy formation, appropriate regulatory regimes, assessments of societal impacts, and the roles of technical innovation in economic development or international competitiveness.

Sample Courses:
LAIS 370 History of Science
LAIS 371 History of Technology
LAIS 375 Engineering Cultures
LAIS 379 Utopias/Dystopias
LAIS 470 Technology and Gender: Issues
LAIS 475 Engineering Cultures in the Developing World
LAIS 476 Technology and International Development
LAIS 486 Science and Technology Policy

LAIS also offers a Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Policy.

Program Advisor: Dr. Carl Mitcham