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STS Student Forum

Wednesday, February 10th 2010

4:30-6:30 in Room 202 at Bethune College

The STS program at York is undertaking an Undergraduate Program Review (UPR). Your input in the process is essential! Please plan to attend and share your views about your experiences in the STS program.

Light Refreshments will be provided!

Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary program that offers courses of study leading to either a BA or BSc degree. Its purpose is to expand our understanding of science and technology by exploring their social, cultural, philosophical and material dimensions. To achieve that purpose, the program draws upon the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences to offer courses treating specific scientific ideas, as well as courses addressing broader topics such as science and gender, science and religion, and technology and cultural values. Students are encouraged to draw connections across traditional boundaries as they seek an intellectual appreciation for the sciences and technology as powerful means for understanding, embodying and shaping the world and ourselves. Students will learn to analyze complex ideas about science and technology, and to discover how to trace the origins and implications of events and patterns of thought in the past and present.

For more information on objectives, programs, requirements, courses and faculty for current and future students, please consult the PDF IconSTS 2009/2010 Mini-calendar.

As one of York’s smaller programs of study, STS brings students the possibility of a strong mentoring relationship with core faculty. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to work on research projects with faculty, or join the editorial office of the internationally renowned research journal in the history of science, Isis, which moved to York in 2004.

A Tree being studied via angles and mathematicsGraduates of this program are well equipped for employment in science journalism, museum work, and science policy as well as for future studies in law, medicine and education. Several of our students have also gone on to graduate studies in the field.

Members of our program coordinate the Research Seminar Series in Science & Technology Studies. The series features bi-weekly seminars on a wide range of STS-related topics, and is sponsored by the Division of Natural Science, the Office of the Vice-President Academic, and the York University Bookstore. Now in its 14th year, the series has hosted over 500 speakers from Canada and around the world. It is open to the public, and STS majors are especially encouraged to attend. Members of the program also help coordinate the Bethune Seminar Series, which features 3-4 large public lectures each academic year.