STS Graduate Courses 2024-2025
The list below is currently being updated. For more information about current courses, please contact Prof. Marisol de la Cadena (mdelac@ucdavis.edu).
Fall 2024
STS 200: Theories and Methods in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Colin Milburn
Tuesday 9:00 am-11:50 am, Social Sciences and Humanities 1246, CRN: 52664
Description: This graduate seminar focuses on theories and methods in science and technology studies (STS). Students will be introduced to major authors, works, and movements that have shaped the interdisciplinary field of STS, attending to intersections of the history and philosophy of science, the anthropology and sociology of science, and literary and cultural studies of science. Students will gain a strong foundation in a variety of STS approaches and concepts: constructivism; sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK); actor-network theory; gender studies of science; rhetoric and semiotics of scientific writing; scientific trading zones; experimental systems; and others. The seminar is designed for graduate students interested in adding STS methods to their scholarly toolkits.
ANT 210: Encountering the Nonhuman and AI: Co-Research and Co-Creativity
Instructor: Joe Dumit
Thursdays 12-3pm SSH 1246
Description: This course will explore ways to think about co-creativity (non-individual, trans*subject, impassive, etc), primarily through practices with large language models (LLMs, generative AI) while reading and playing with other nonhuman encounters. Asking how LLMs can be ways to rethinking encountering, language, agency, making, doing, and reflecting. Surveying, practicing, inventing ways of using LLMs in research.
Winter 2025
STS 205: Contemporary Issues in Science & Technology Studies
Instructor: Timothy Choy
Wednesdays 2-5pm, SSH 1246
Description: TBA
Spring 2025
STS 250: History and Philosophy of Science: Technogenesis
Instructor: Timothy Lenoir
Wednesdays 3-6pm, Olson Hall 159