Introduction. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) Reviews foundations of economic growth theory, innovation systems theory, and the basic approaches to science and technology policy. Secondly, warming temperatures cause ocean water to expand. It has green colors, connected to the environment, and includes pedagogical illustrations related to ecology. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. The decade spanning 2000-2009 was the warmest on record. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Student works closely with STS faculty tutor. For example, the increase in water vapor that occurs with warming further increases climate forcing and evaporation, as water vapor is a powerful GHG. Surveys research on quantification, the practice of using numerical data and calculation to analyze, order, and control. Explores the contributions of big capital, engineers, politicians, and ordinary people. Culminates with the project's installation in the MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. Sheet2. Reading and writing on three case studies drawn from the history of science; the cultural study of technology and science; and policy issues. Image: BioCarbon Engineering. What is Climate Change? Enrollment limited. Addressing the effects of climate change is a top priority of the Energy Department. Cao, L., et al. H. Abelson, R. David Edelman, M. Fischer, D. Weitzner, Same subject as 21A.504[J], WGS.276[J]Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Ice ages are at least partially caused by changes in Earth's orbit and axis. Ocean levels are rising at a rate of 3.3 millimeters per year. 80 26 Same subject as 8.225[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered It has a guide index to help you focus your presentation. UNFCCC Expert Meeting on Technologies for Adaptation to Climate Change, Bangkok, Thailand, 5 April 2008 Mandate SBSTA-20 requested the Secretariat to: Organise a seminar on the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change, Prepare a technical paper on the applications of of ESTs for adaptation . HASS-H. Explores the changing roles of physics and physicists during the 20th century. Provides instruction in the methods historians use to document the past, as well as methods from related fields. Limited to 50. Visit the website for additional information about the HASTS graduate program or contact the STS academic administrator, Room E51-163, 617-253-9759. Examines ideas, institutions, and the social settings of the sciences, with emphasis on how cultural contexts influence scientific concepts and practices. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offeredUnits arrangedCan be repeated for credit. HT]hUl2nnAwVuM5Mvv;3s1H_!ZB%n}[(c}pw03 Zi~a|mIA_:QM}tbN|EGg L~0!\KOq.{#8L+ErH|ns?za6l/JKTNR.. Comparison is drawn between biography as a literary form in the history of science and in other disciplines. Students are expected to develop professional mastery of a field of history or one of the social sciences. Same subject as 6.4590[J] 0000005988 00000 n Focuses on peoples of the Global South as innovative intellectual agents, not just victims of technology or its appropriators. To fulfill the remaining subject requirement, students choose from among several departmental seminars designed to offer more in-depth study of particular topics. Designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes and processes that affect people. But its not too late to save it, These 5 innovations will transform the lives of smallholder farmers. HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.303[J]. Enrollment limited. Opens up trans-hemispheric conversations between constituencies that seldom talk to each other, each bringing its ways of seeing, thinking, knowing, and doing to the matrix to mutually inform one another. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. Required of all candidates for an STS degree. Hansen, J., et al. According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2009 tied for second warmest year on record, just behind 2005. Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse. HASS-H. Same subject as 21A.829[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Examples include the eugenics movement, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the debate surrounding racial inheritance, and IQ testing. (2005) Earths Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)2-0-10 units. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)2-0-7 units. 0000007245 00000 n 0000010522 00000 n 0000009793 00000 n Themes include: the science of aeronautics, pilots and piloting, control systems and electronics, engineering epistemology, infrastructure, industry, government and politics, evolution of aeronautics research, culture and experience, automation and autonomy, role of MIT, literature and film. satellites not just as technology demonstrators, but as components of a critical communication and information-based infrastructure for modern societies. Yet the world loses 18.3 million acres of forest each year, or 27 soccer fields worth of trees every minute, according to the World . Atmospheric concentrations of some of the gases that produce the greenhouse effect are increasing due to human activity and most of the world's climate scientists consider that this is a significant part of the cause of observed climate change. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain. Life during the Spanish Era. They must also master the underlying concepts in science and engineering that relate to their special field of interest. Yet, the world is currently on course for a global mean surface temperature increase of . Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-3-6 units. World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. And severe weather -- the leading cause of power outages and fuel supply disruption in the United States -- is projected to worsen, with eight of the 10 most destructive hurricanes . Subject meets with 21A.559Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Not offered regularly; consult department3-0-9 units. According to our most recent research, climate change could drive 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050, with hotspots of internal migration emerging as soon as 2030, spreading and intensifying thereafter. Team-taught subject that centers Global South cosmologies and epistemologies marginalized by colonization, slavery, and racism across the world. Reading course in the history of aviation, focusing on science and technology and cultural and political context. Historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the interaction of technology with social and political values. Nat. STS contributes to undergraduate education at MIT in several ways. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Others originated with longstanding programs to study our home planet or to improve commercial flight. Examination of different "voices" used to consider issues of scientific, technological, and social concern. 0000010815 00000 n Professional perspective options include, but are not limited to, internships, teacher training, professional development for entry into academia, or public academic engagement. Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. 0000160686 00000 n Regents of the University of Michigan, Produced by 0000004345 00000 n Case studies of specific systems and engineering projects. Climate change could cut crop yields . Students who wish to integrate their professional study of engineering or science with a rigorous treatment of its relation to social and historical forces may pursue STS as a second major in cooperation with the Schools of Engineering and Science. Prereq: None U (Fall, Spring)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Students develop a bibliography of anthropological and ethnographic writing relevant to their project, and write a short paper about integrating ethnographic methods into a future research project. The program brings together humanists, social scientists, engineers, and natural scientists, all committed hb```e`` "03 ?Pa/T(8S 6G b -`u>R}*1. The Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) focuses on the ways in which scientific, technological, and social factors interact to shape modern life. 0000000816 00000 n CSS calculation based on data from UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (2003) Climate Change Information Kit. The Earth's Climate Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013) Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Students meet and question technologists, activists, law enforcement agents, journalists, and legal experts. 0000006766 00000 n Americans have more influence in the development . Intensive reading and analysis of major works in historical and social studies of science and technology. Explores topics such as how computers have intertwined with ideas on work, freedom, governance, and access to knowledge. Same subject as 21A.319[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Goal is to equip students with skills for team-based trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural problem-solving. Same subject as 21A.859[J]Prereq: None G (Fall)3-0-9 units. Surveys youth political participation in the US since the early 1800s. Introduces students to the core and canonical literature in this area while also providing the opportunity to read and discuss more recent works from multiple disciplines. The surface then re-emits energy as infrared radiation, a portion of which escapes into space. 0000006244 00000 n Studies the growth of computer and communications technology and the new legal and ethical challenges that reflect tensions between individual rights and societal needs. This course will use history to help students see climate change's social and political aspects. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor; consult department for details. Restricted to HASTS PhD students. Primary emphasis on textiles and metalworking, with particular attention to the role of the machine tool industry in the American manufacturing economy. 0000004730 00000 n Includes in-class discussion of readings, short written and multimedia assignments, final project. Double major applications from students in other schools (e.g., Architecture and Planning; Management; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Emphasizes how local culture, politics, labor, and knowledge affect engineering. 0000004516 00000 n The seven warmest years since 1880 have all occurred since 2014 and in 2021 annual global temperatures were above average for the 45th consecutive year. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2010) The Earths Radiation Budget. 0000035423 00000 n For an internship experience, an offer from a company or organization is required prior to enrollment. Not offered regularly; consult department3-3-6 units. The greenhouse effect works much the same way on Earth. Enrollment limited. Scientific evidence and consensus for global climate change (20-25 minute lecture and discussion): Ask students key questions and show the Unit 1 PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 25.6MB Feb6 17) slides as described in the Unit 1 Lecture Notes (Microsoft Word 154kB Feb6 17). By 2035, IPCC predicts that the temperature will rise between 0.3-0.7. It leads to one degree, either a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science or a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Engineering. 0000007023 00000 n Uses a problem-solving, multi-disciplinary, and multicultural approach that takes energy beyond the complex circuits, grids, and kilojoules to the realm of everyday life, with ordinary people as practitioners and producers of energy knowledge, infrastructures, and technologies. HASS-H; CI-H. Develops students' abilities to communicate science effectively in a variety of real-world contexts. Sensors and sensibility: All kinds of new technology are being used to monitor the natural world. Covers the development of major fields in the physical and life sciences, from 18th-century Europe through 20th-century America. Examines the range of theories, from Mary Douglas in anthropology to D.W. Winnicott in psychoanalytic thinking, that underlies thing or object analysis. Climate models most closely match the observed temperature trend only when natural and anthropogenic forcings are considered together. Same subject as 21A.505[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered trailer <<66FC938451164C2899D441DAA9949DFD>]/Prev 46651/XRefStm 1054>> startxref 0 %%EOF 105 0 obj <>stream Same subject as 16.445[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) Since the start of the 20th century, the average growing season in the contiguous 48 states has lengthened by nearly two weeks. Limited to 25. Same subject as 11.244[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Spring) This work has been largely completed and the path has been cleared for real adaptation-related action begun to focus on climate science itself: asking, in essence, how we know what we know about climate change. Average global temperatures have increased by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.2 degrees Celsius, since 1880, with the greatest changes happening in the late 20th century. Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. 0000008588 00000 n Changing temperature patterns. Many of these innovations were pioneered for space travel and planetary exploration before anyone repurposed them for use on Earth. Divided into four sections/assessments: US and African histories, cultures, politics, and development relations; HASS as a problem-solving tool; STEM applications to real-life problem-solving; and introduction to summer field-class sites or exchange programs. 0000009339 00000 n Climate change is the result of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and other human activities. Students work on a term-long project, organized around the design, fabrication, and installation of an original multimedia exhibit about current scientific research at MIT. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. The goal of the minor program is to give students a broad social perspective on the fields of engineering and science: how they have evolved and how they fit into the wider context of society, culture, politics, and values. 0000011821 00000 n 0000019960 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Focuses on quantification, including its central role in the historical development of social science and its importance in the 21st-century data age. Limited to 15; no listeners. Same subject as 21A.407[J], 21G.057[J], WGS.275[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) Prereq: None G (Fall, Spring)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units, Subject meets with 21H.205[J], STS.027[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) Examines the history and legacy of the Cold War on science and the environment in the US and the world. Students taking graduate version are expected to explore the material in greater depth. HASS-H. See description under subject WGS.226[J]. Same subject as 16.707[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Cracking the code: The sequencing of genetic material is a powerful conservation tool . Explores modern finance (since about 1950) from a variety of historical and social-scientific perspectives, covering quant finance, financialization, the crisis of 2007-2008, and finance in the digital age. 0000031470 00000 n National Research Council (2009) Ecological Impacts of Climate Change. Studies how mass production and mass demand for commodities, such as real estate, bananas, rubber, corn, and beef, in the 20th century changed the way people worked, lived, and saw themselves as they adopted new technologies to produce and consume in radically different ways from their parents and grandparents. 0000007034 00000 n Topics range from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to high-energy physics and cosmology. Scholars of science and technology studies have long been interested in the work of scientists, the circulation of scientiic knowledge and the relation-ship between science and politics6-11. Instruction in expressing ideas clearly and in organizing a thesis-length work. Electric Power Generation Fuels Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3. The science-technology-society (STS) movement recognizes the need for education that prepares young people for the challenges of an ever-changing, interdependent world. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Authors. Examines existent critiques of the racial, sexual and environmental politics at stake in techno-scientific cultures. 0000001406 00000 n 5 These greenhouse gas emissions have increased the greenhouse effect and caused the earth's surface temperature to rise. Program of graduate research leading to the writing of a PhD thesis, to be arranged by the student with an appropriate MIT faculty member, who is the thesis supervisor. This leads to global warming and climate change. 0000028591 00000 n Explores these issues with particular attention to the development of the modern biotechnology industry in the Greater Boston area. This century, an unprecedented combination of climate change, associated disturbances, and other global change drivers will likely exceed many ecosystems capacities for resilience. Overview. 0000038079 00000 n Climate change is a sign that humans have become a force with planet-altering power. Surprise your teacher with this professional template. 198 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 201 /H [ 2723 995 ] /L 746351 /E 211565 /N 40 /T 742272 >> endobj xref 198 102 0000000016 00000 n Both its physical properties and its rate and direction of motion are . Using the American Civil War as a baseline, considers what it means to become "modern" by exploring the war's material and manpower needs, associated key technologies, and how both influenced the United States' entrance into the age of "Big Business." Interdisciplinary problem-solving at the intersection of humanities, science, engineering, and business. Photo courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. The use of biography in different historical periods to illuminate aspects of the development of science. 0000031604 00000 n Same subject as 12.384[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Students taking graduate version write a longer final paper. Limited to 25. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Earth's climate is changing. 0000012716 00000 n 0000003457 00000 n CSS05-19. Overview. Treats the emergence of industrial capitalism: the rise of the factory system; new forms of power, transport, and communication; the advent of the large industrial corporation; the social relations of production; and the hallmarks of science-based industry. Warming that has already occurred is affecting the biological timing (phenology) and geographic range of plant and animal communities. A survey of the contributions of African Americans to science, technology, and medicine from colonial times to the present. Impacts related to climate change are evident across regions and in many sectors important to societysuch as human health, agriculture and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and othersand are expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond. For students in the doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) who are working on their dissertation proposal and/or research grant proposal program requirement. Same subject as 21A.103[J], WGS.225[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) Same subject as 11.461[J]Prereq: None G (Fall) PDF Document. HASS-H. In addition, students must complete STS.840 HASTS Professional Perspective. It has green colors, connected to the environment, and includes pedagogical illustrations related to ecology. The High-level Event held on 24 September 2007 at the United Nations in New York has sent a strong message that all countries are . Identifies contemporary forms of resistance and imaginations of innovation that still endure and flourish in the global south, challenging perspectives from the global north. UNEP and GRID-Arendal (2005) Vital Climate Change Graphics. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and more. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2016) Climate Change Indicators in the U.S., 2016. Examines science and technology innovation systems, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors. Michigan Creative, a unit of the HASS-S. Learn more about how snow and ice patterns have changed over time. Surveys the effects of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century on the imagination of computational technologies in places such as South America, Africa, and Asia. Graduate students are required to take at least 10 subjects and usually complete them within their first two years. Going beyond issues of brain drain and brain circulation, explores how contemporary science and technology innovations look from, and are being created in, parts of the world other than the US and Europe. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. Enrollment limited. Increased temperatures, changes in precipitation and climate variability would alter the geographic ranges and seasonality of diseases spread by organisms like mosquitoes. Limited to 18. The Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change workshop was held in Washington, DC in March 2017. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. HASS-H. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide concentrations are now more abundant in the earth's atmosphere than any time in the last 800,000 years. Examines the nature of engineering as a source of knowledge production/application, how it reflects the cultural settings in which it emerges, and how it changes as it enters different cultural and economic settings. HASS-S. Explores a range of controversies about the role of technology, the nature of scientific research and the place of politics in science: debates about digital piracy and privacy, the role of activism in science, the increasingly unclear boundaries between human and non-human, the role of MRIs as courtroom evidence, the potential influence of gender on scientific research, etc. Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Case studies vary from year to year, but always include a current MIT event. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)2-0-7 units. Some mandatory field trips may occur during class time. adverse effects of climate change, is becoming an urgent priority along with mitigation of climate change. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, In a post-truth world, the fight against climate change is still winnable, Our planet is at breaking point. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Open to upperclassmen with permission of instructor. These gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, warm and alter the global climate, which causes environmental changes to occur that can harm people's health and well . 3. determine the interrelatedness of society, environment and health. It is the average daily weather for an extended period of time at a certain location. Goes on to explore the dynamics and consequences of quantification across a range of modern domains, including science, politics, governance, health, education, crime, law, economic development, finance, and environmental regulation. Emphasis on the transfer of technology and its many adaptations around the world. A written narrative or report is required upon completion of the experience. All of this is making life on Earth much more difficult. 0000020794 00000 n Climate change, on the other hand, occurs because the amount of energy in the entire climate system is changed which affects each and every component in the system. 0000014189 00000 n Substitution with a similar subject may be permitted by petition to the STS Undergraduate Officer. 0000010082 00000 n gas. Students write frequently and choose among a variety of non-fiction forms: historical writing, social analysis, political criticism, and policy reports. 0000004429 00000 n HASS-H. Researches the history and culture of an MIT community to contribute to its documentation and preservation. Metal age: gold and silver jewelry, ceramics and tools. Introductory survey of fundamental innovations and transitions in American manufacturing from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century. Further details may be obtained from the SHASS Dean's Office, Room 4-240, and the STS academic administrator. Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. 0000011194 00000 n The unprecedented acceleration of climate change over the last 50 years and the increasing confidence in global climate models add to the compelling evidence that climate is being affected by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities.2, Changes in climate should not be confused with changes in weather. Achievements covered vary from term to term. Examines how class, race, ethnicity, family history, and trauma shape the person who shapes artifacts, experiments, and ideas. Drones That Plant Trees. STS.095 is letter-graded; STS.096 is P/D/F. Separately, neither natural forcings (e.g., volcanic activity and solar variation) nor anthropogenic forcings (e.g., GHGs and aerosols) can fully explain the warming experienced since 1850. 0000006561 00000 n Assignments include creation of a board game for buying and selling real estate in Boston, a two-minute mini-documentary, and an article on a commodity and country. Introduces the "inner history" of technology: how it affects intimate aspects of human experience from sociological, psychological and anthropological perspectives. Oil. Minor in Science, Technology, and Society. Countries treated include Great Britain, France, Germany, the US, Sweden, Russia, Japan, China, and India. Same subject as 17.310[J], IDS.412[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring)4-0-8 unitsCredit cannot also be received for 17.309[J], IDS.055[J], STS.082[J], Subject meets with 6.4590[J], STS.085[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall)3-0-9 units. 0000007832 00000 n Limited to 20; preference to students who have taken STS.034. Working like detectives, students draw on research methods from such fields as climate science, geology, molecular biology, proteomics, DNA testing, carbon dating and big data analysis to invent their own forensic historical research techniques. Undergraduate research opportunities in the STS Program. HASS-S. See description under subject 22.04[J]. Proposals subject to departmental approval in consultation with advisor. The earth's climate is changing. 0000031447 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. HASS-H. Exposes students to multidisciplinary studies in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), using four case studies to illustrate a broad range of approaches to basic principles of STS studies. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. In collaboration, STS, the History Faculty, and the Anthropology Program offer a doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). CSA aims to simultaneously achieve three outcomes: 1. Weather is observed at a particular location on a time scale of hours or days, and exhibits a high degree of variability, whereas climate is the long-term average of short-term weather patterns, such as the annual average temperature or rainfall.3 Under a stable climate, there is an energy balance between incoming short wave solar radiation and outgoing long wave infrared radiation. An examination of biography as a literary genre to be employed in the history of science. 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