CPSP349T: Advanced Practicum: Service Learning; STS Infrastructure and Society Service Learning Project
Course Description:
Our lives and bodies are intertwined with science and technology. We depend on them to support how we live now and hope that new discoveries will improve our lives in the future. What can we do today, however, to bring about our ideal future?
Science, Technology and Society (STS) seeks to understand the challenges standing between the present we have and the future we want. Students explore the powerful social, ethical and political relationships that drive research and innovation, asking:
- What factors determine the trajectories of scientific research and technological development?
- Which research and development pathways have the greatest positive impact with the least harm, and who decides which pathways are taken?
- What strategies will influence decision-making to realize the best possible outcomes?
Using scenario analysis, simulations, and systems thinking, on teams and independently, students will learn methods to assess, design and influence the direction of scientific and technological change.
Because STS values interdisciplinary collaboration, we welcome students from all majors. If you have an interest in maximizing the societal benefits of scientific inquiry and technological innovation, you will be a valued member of our community.
Semester: Fall 2021
Location: Cumberland Greenroof tour and campus walk with Stormwater Manager and Maintenance Inspector Michael Carmichael