STS Graduate Courses 2022-2023
The list below is currently being updated. For more information about current courses, please contact Prof. Colin Milburn (cnmilburn@ucdavis.edu).
FALL 2022
STS 250: History and Philosophy of Science (Topic: Outsider Science)
Instructor: Finn Brunton
W 10:00AM-12:50PM, 1246 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
This seminar proposes to explore major themes in STS from the outside in: by looking at the edges, fringes, boundaries, horizons, and exteriors of science. What lies just beyond the walls, and why? How do matters become scientific, and how do they refused, rejected, or excluded? We will study pseudoscience, fringe science, para-science, and emergent forms of "hyperscience," as well as issues within the sciences around speculation, replicability, and consensus. We seek to understand the vast hinterland of "outsider science" and knowledge production, and what they can tell us about science itself and how it has developed.
WINTER 2022
STS 200: Theories and Methods in Science and Technology Studies
Instructor: Joe Dumit
Wednesdays 1:10 PM - 4:00 PM, CRN: 45375
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.
SPRING 2022
STS 205: Current Issues in STS (Topic: Internet Studies)
Instructor: Gerardo Con Diaz
Schedule: TBD
Introduction to major methods and problems in Internet Studies. Topics include online bias and inequality, Internet infrastructures, user cultures, online governance, and an introduction to academic publishing skills and processes.
STS 250: History and Philosophy of Science (Topic: Technogenesis)
Instructor: Timothy Lenoir
Schedule: TBD
Description: TBD
ANT 210: Aspects of Culture Structure (Topic: Bodies)
Instructor: Joe Dumit
Schedule: TBD
Description: TBD