Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy (STEP) Minor Elective Courses

Social, ethical and policy implications: This concentration explores the contemporary societal  implications of science and technology. These courses ask students to think about the role  science and technology has played in creating local and global social and environmental crises  and what science and technology can do to help solve them.

  • AGNR301 Sustainability
  • ANSC227 Eating with Eyes Wide Open (NS, IS) 
  • ANSC437 Animal Biotechnology 
  • ANTH210 Intro to Medical Anthropology and Global Health (HS, UP)
  • ANTH266 Changing Climate, Changing Cultures (HS, CC, IS) 
  • ANTH323 Plagues, Pathogens and Public Policy 
  • ANTH413 Health Disparities in the United States 
  • ANTH415 Advanced Studies in Global Health 
  • AOSC123 Causes & Implications of Global Change (NS, IS) 
  • ARCH271 People, Planet, and Profit: Building Sustainable Places (SP)
  • ARCH289I Sustainability at College Park (NS or SP, IS)
  • AREC200 The Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem: Intersection of Science, Economics, and  Policy (NS, SP, IS) 
  • AREC241 Environment, Economics, and Policy (HS, IS) 
  • ASTR220 Collisions in Space: The Threat of Asteroid Impacts (NS, IS)
  • BSCI126 Pollinators in Crisis (NS, IS) 
  • ENEE200 Technology & Consequences: Engineering, Ethics, and Humanity (HU, IS)
  • GVPT273 Introduction to Environmental Politics (SP) 
  • HIST401 Science and Gender 
  • LARC452 Green Infrastructure and Community Greening 
  • PHIL200A Bioethics: Regulating Right and Wrong
  • PHIL201 Spooky Action at a Distance: Where Physics Meet Metaphysics (HU, IS)
  • PHIL202 Know Thyself: Wisdom through Cognitive Sciences (HS or HU, IS)
  • PHIL261 Philosophy of the Environment 
  • PHYS105 Physics for Decision-Makers: Global Energy Crisis (NS, IS)
  • PLCY401 Contemporary Issues in Public Policy- Politics of Pandemic and Outbreak  Response 
  • PLCY203 Liberty and Justice for All: Ethics and Moral Issues in Public Policy
  • PLCY301 Sustainability 
  • PLCY388V Special Topics in Public Policy: From Artificial Intelligence to Genetic  Engineering, Policy Implications of Emerging Technologies 
  • PLCY388W Special Topics in Public Policy; Global Action and Problem Solving
  • PLSC125 Feeding Nine Billion by 2050: Food Security and Crop Protection (NS, IS) 
  • AREC200 The Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem: Intersection of Science, Economics, and Policy
  • BIOE689G Special Topics in Bioengineering; Advanced Immunoengineering

    Science and technology development: This concentration focuses on cultural, legal,  organizational, and institutional forces that have shaped science and technology. It asks students  to think about what causes knowledge production and technical practices to change over time  and how these changes can improve implementation going forward. 

    • ANTH453 Archaeology of the Modern City 
    • ARCH170 Design Thinking and Architecture (HU) 
    • BMGT289A Social Enterprise: Changing the World through Innovation and  Transformative Action (SP, IS) 
    • BMGT289B – How Do Innovators Think? (SP, IS) 
    • BSCI135 Amazing Green: Plants that Transformed the World (NL, IS)
    • ENCE215 Engineering for Sustainability 
    • ENMA150 Materials of Civilization (NS, IS) 
    • ENMA289A Bigger, Faster, Better: The Quest for Absolute Technology (NS, IS)
    • ENME467 (Perm Req) Engineering for Social Change 
    • HIST204 History of Science (HS) 
    • HIST205 Environmental History (HS or HU) 
    • HIST206 Introduction to the History of Technology  
    • HIST224 Modern Military History, 1494-1815 (HS) 
    • HIST289Y Zombies, Fear, and Contagion: A Cultural History of Public Health,  Medicine, and Technology (HS or HU, UP, IS) 
    • HIST329X Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Mobility and Transportation in History
    • HIST405 Environmental History 
    • HIST406 History of Technology  
    • HIST407 Technology and Social Change in History 
    • KNES289W The Cybernetic Human (NS, IS)
    • LARC263 History of Landscape Architecture (HU) 
    • PHYS199M The Manhattan Project (HS or NS, IS) 
    • URSP250 The Sustainable City (SP, IS)
    • ENCE204 How Cities Work  

     

    Information economy: This concentration focuses on how the information economy has shaped  scientific and technological practices. Students are asked to think about society’s evolving  relationships with information as a driving force in the private and public sector.

    • AMST260 American Culture in the Information Age (HS, IS) 
    • ASTR230 Science and Fiction of Planetary Systems (NS, IS) 
    • CPSP349T Infrastructure and Society  
    • ENGL255 Literature of Science and Technology (HU) 
    • ENGL293 Writing in a Wireless World (HU or SP) 
    • ENGL376 The Speculative Imagination: Science Fiction on Page and Screen
    • ENGL378F Special Topics in English; Paranoia, Conspiracies, and Fake News
    • GEOG170 Mapping our Digital World (NS) 
    • HLTH364 Social Media & Digital Tools for Community & Public Health
    • INST152 “Fake-Checking”: Battling Misinformation and Disinformation in the Real World (SP)  
    • INST154 Apollo at 50 (IS)  
    • INST155 Social Networking: Technology and Society (IS)  
    • INST201 Introduction to Information Science (HS) 
    • INST466 Technology, Culture, and Society 
    • JOUR175 Media Literacy (SP, UP) 
    • JOUR289F Beyond Facebook: How Social Media are Transforming Society (HU, IS)
    • JOUR289E Media Law and Ethics in the Digital Age (HS, IS) 
    • KNES222 Gambling in the New Millennium (HS, IS) 
    • PLCY304 Evaluating Evidence: Finding Truth in Numbers  
    • PLCY388C Special Topics in Public Policy; Cybersecurity Policy: Practical Hacking for  Policy Makers
    • SOCY225 Women’s Jobs, Men’s Jobs: Difference? (HS, IS)
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