The Science & Society minor includes two required courses: CHSS 200 (Introduction to Science and Society), a 2-credit course, and CHSS 400 (Perspectives on Science and Society), a 1-credit capstone course in which students will demonstrate what they have learned through their course of study. Both courses are being offered this fall 2008.
The minor is comprised of at least 15 additional credits of core classes that are chosen in close consultation with the student's minor advisor. A partial list of some courses students might choose follows. This list is updated regularly, and new courses will be added often. If you would like to suggest a course that does not currently appear on this list, please let us know.
Recommended Courses for the Minor Concentration
Administration of Justice
ADJ 304 – Computer Crime, Forensics, and Auditing
ADJ 400 – Applied Criminal Psychology
ADJ 407 – Law and Society
ADJ 475 – Theory and Politics of Terrorism
Anthropology
ANTH 120 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 135 – Human Evolution, Biology, and Culture
ANTH 313 – Myth, Magic, and Mind
ANTH 365 – Race and Racism
ANTH 370 – Environment and Culture
ANTH 380 – Language and Culture
ANTH 381 – Health, Healing, and Culture
ANTH 496 – On Evolution
Art History
ARTH 311 – Design of Cities
ARTH 350 – History of Photography
ARTH 394 – The Museum
Art and Visual Technology
AVT 180 – Computers in the Creative Arts
AVT 309 – Art as Social Interaction
Astronomy
ASTR 301 – Astrobiology
ASTR 302 – Foundations of Cosmological Thought
Bioinfomatics
BINF 354 – Foundations in Mathematical Biology
Biology
BIOL 301 – Biology and Society
BIOL 313 – Human Genetics for the Social Sciences
Classical Studies
CLAS 240 – Greek and Latin Elements in English
College of Visual and Performing Arts
CVPA 430 – Topics in Arts and Wellness
Communication
COMM 303 – Writing across the Media
COMM 305 – Foundations of Intercultural Communication
COMM 306 – Issues in Intercultural Communication
COMM 435 – Computers and Communication
Computer Science
CS 105 – Computer Ethics and Society
CS 305/306 – (Synthesis of) Ethics and Law for the Computing Professional
Conflict Analysis and Resolution
CONF 302 – Identity Conflicts and their Resolution
CONF 330 – Community, Group, and Organizational Conflict Analysis and Resolution
CONF 340 – Global Conflict and Resolution
CONF 393 – Philosophy, Conflict Theory, and Violence
Earth Observing Systems
EOS 304 – Population Dimensions of Global Change
Economics
ECON 110 – Introduction to Economic Science
ECON 335 – Environmental Economics
ECON 360 – Economics of Developing Areas
English
ENGL 311 – Writing Ethnography
ENGL 343 – Textual Media
ENGL 492 – Science Fiction
Environmental Science and Public Policy
EVPP 201– Environment and You: Issues for the Twenty-First Century
EVPP 318 – Conservation Biology
EVPP 336 – Human Dimensions of the Environment
EVPP 337 – Environmental Policy Making in Developing Countries
Foreign Language
FRLN 310 – Germany in its Global Context
FRLN 380 – Topics in the Sociopolitics of Language
Geography
GEOG 103 – Human Geography
GEOG 303 – Conservation of Resources and Environment
GEOG 304 – Geography of Population
GEOG 305 – Economic Geography
GEOG 306 – Urban Geography
Geology
GEOL 305 – Environmental Geology
Global and Community Health
GCH 205 – International Health
GCH 496 – Violence in Today's Society
Government
GOVT 149 – Global Awareness
GOVT 329 – Issues in Political Theories and Values
GOVT 337 – Ethnic Politics in Western Europe and North America
GOVT 346 – American Security Policy
GOVT 347 – International Security
GOVT 348 – Issues in the Analysis of Global Systems
GOVT 36 – Introduction to Environmental Policy
GOVT 407 – Law and Society
GOVT 421 – Contemporary Political Ideologies
History
HIST 298 – History and the Web (1 credit)
HIST 418 – Ethnic Groups in America
Information Technology
IT 304 – IT in the Global Economy
Linguistics
LING 322 – English Grammar
LING 326 – General Linguistics
LING 485 – Semantics and Pragmatics
LING 486 – Syntax I
LING 490 – Generative Phonology
Marketing
MKTG 301 – Principles of Marketing
MKTG 312 – Consumer Behavior
Mathematics
MATH 400 – History of Math
New Century College
NCLC 211 – Introduction to Conservation Studies
NCLC 220 – Energy and Environment
NCLC 230 – Math and Culture
NCLC 300 – Utopia
NCLC 306 – Our Common Futures
NCLC 307 – Narratives of Nature
NCLC 319 – An Endangered Earth
NCLC 333 – The Nature of Mathematics
NCLC 350 –Cyberculture
NCLC 378 – Medicine, Justice, and Public Policy
NCLC 379 – Cancer and Its Social Impact
NCLC 401 – Conservation Biology
NCLC 441 – AIDS: Impact on Society
Philosophy
PHIL 111 – Individual and Society
PHIL 112 – Ethics and Cybersociety
PHIL 180 – Logic and Law
PHIL 309 – Medicine and Human Values
PHIL 312 – Philosophy of Technology
PHIL 326 – Justice, Law, and the Modern State
PHIL 343 – Introduction to Environmental Ethics
PHIL 371 – Philosophy of Natural Sciences
PHIL 377 – Darwin: Biology and Beyond
PHIL 378 – Reason, Science, and Faith in the Modern Age
Physics
PHYS 101 – Light and Sound in Our World
PHYS 102 – Sports Physics
PHYS 121 – Uses of Physics (1 credit)
PHYS 122 – Inside Relativity (1 credit)
PHYS 123 – Inside the Quantum World (1 credit)
PHYS 124 – Experimental Exploration in Physics (1 credit)
Psychology
PSYC 231 – Social Psychology
PSYC 324 – Personality Theory
PSYC 372 – Physiological Psychology
PSYC 415 – Psychological Factors in Aging
PSYC 418 – Death, Dying, and Grieving
PSYC 461 – Science of Well Being (Special Topics)
Religious Studies
RELI 341 – Global Perspectives on Spirituality and Healing
Social Work
SOCW 323/324 Human Behavior in the Social Environment I/II
SOCW 435 An Intergenerational Approach to Aging
Sociology
SOCI 390 – Sociology of Health, Illness, and Disability