Limited to 15. Examines the history and legacy of the Cold War on science and the environment in the US and the world. Permission of advisor. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered2-0-7 units. The growing literature on cognition and "things" cuts across anthropology, history, social theory, literature, sociology, and psychology and is of great relevance to science students. Subject to departmental approval. Limited to 25. Prereq: None G (Fall, Spring)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. 0000008871 00000 n
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Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. National Research Council (2011) Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Subject closes by considering the places of science in the US during the post-Cold War era. HASS-S. See description under subject 22.04[J]. This design contains lots of . 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. is affecting economies, industries and global issues, with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale. Readings drawn from STS, history, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Uses films, novels, and artworks to think across disciplinary boundaries and the impact of science and technology on social worlds (as well as the social worlds of scientists and engineers). 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. IPCC (2007) Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Students read key texts, analyze key debates (e.g. Enrollment limited. 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. 0000010142 00000 n
New technologies are helping to fight global warming Image:Roxanne Desgagnes. To fulfill the remaining subject requirement, students choose from among several departmental seminars designed to offer more in-depth study of particular topics. Make a poster regarding the causes and effects of climate change. Achievements covered vary from term to term. It refers to any change in climate over time . Enrollment limited. 0000002392 00000 n
Class meets for nine weeks; in the remaining weeks, students work on a final paper due at the end of the term. 0000006343 00000 n
"a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. Statement by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs to the Forum on Climate Change and Science and Technology Innovation, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, Division for Inclusive Social Development, Capacity Development Programme Management Office. One of the alternatives is to start producing lab-grown meat, and to produce meat substitutes . Data, research and guidelines on science and technology including biotechnology, biosafety (BioTrack), innovation, knowledge-based capital, intangibles, and nanotechnology., Governments have agreed to work together to hold the increase in global average temperature to below 2C above pre-industrial levels. Same subject as 21A.829[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Science and Technology supports progression in and across subject specialisms, and prepares learners to use science and technology in their every day lives. Food. 198 0 obj
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The warmest year on record since records began in 1880 was 2016, with 2020 ranking second. To complicate things further, no one fully understands how . For students who wish to pursue special studies or projects with a member of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Substitution with a similar subject may be permitted by petition to the STS Undergraduate Officer. HASS-SCredit cannot also be received for 21A.509[J], STS.474[J]. 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. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2010) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offeredUnits arrangedCan be repeated for credit. 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. 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. 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). Before registering for this subject, students must have an offer letter from a company or organization and must receive written prior approval from their advisor. 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. Explores the relationship between technology and conversation, with an emphasis on conversation in our digital age when so many say they would rather text than talk. Covers Africa and its diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Asia, and Oceania. Detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to fly humans to the moon and return them safely to Earth as an example of a complex engineering system. They may also take subjects offered by other MIT departments and through cross-registration with Harvard. By 2035, IPCC predicts that the temperature will rise between 0.3-0.7. Focus on the most important part of your thesis, your content, and let us take care of the design as a gratitude gift for having invested so many hours into your research. Prereq: None G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. 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. Examines how class, race, ethnicity, family history, and trauma shape the person who shapes artifacts, experiments, and ideas. 0000009520 00000 n
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HASS-H. 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. Examines the range of theories, from Mary Douglas in anthropology to D. W. Winnicott in psychoanalytic thinking, that underlies "thing" or "object" analysis. Climate change is as much an opportunity as it is a threat. In addition to utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, subject draws upon a series of ethnographic case studies of environmental conflicts in various parts of the world. Introduction. HASS-H; CI-H. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. adverse effects of climate change, is becoming an urgent priority along with mitigation of climate change. 0000008252 00000 n
Project-based seminar covers key topics in museum communication, including science learning in informal settings, the role of artifacts and interactives, and exhibit evaluation. 0000160686 00000 n
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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. Plants. Limited to 20. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) 0000017121 00000 n
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. Considers developments in the epidemiology, therapy, and politics of cancer. The surface then re-emits energy as infrared radiation, a portion of which escapes into space. Authors. Subject (course) information includes any changes approved for the current academic year. Policy briefings. Also focuses on environmental and cultural impact assessment. 0000006403 00000 n
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Introduces students to basic interpretive issues, bibliographic sources, and professional standards. From 1967-2012, snow cover extent decreased by approximately 53% in June, and around 7% in March and April. 0000003681 00000 n
Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Subject meets with STS.443Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 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. Regents of the University of Michigan, Produced by Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. The decade spanning 2000-2009 was the warmest on record. HASS-H; CI-H, Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000175753 00000 n
Metal age: gold and silver jewelry, ceramics and tools. The object of this program is to give those students the full technical and scientific education provided by a science or engineering major, balanced with intensive study of the historical and social contexts of science and technology. 0000008588 00000 n
Enrollment limited. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013) Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Examines the technologies, individuals and socio-economic systems that are associated with such efforts, as well as the impact that these efforts have on society and science as a whole. Provides a global view of STS in an increasingly interconnected world. HASS-H; CI-H. Working Group II Contributions to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. The objective of the program is to develop advanced competence in the study of science and technology from a historical and social scientific perspective. Explores the organization and role of energy and medical science R&D agencies, as well as gaps in those innovation systems. Limited to 15; no listeners. Provides instruction on how people have historically connected computers to ideas on social, economic, and political change and how these ideas have changed over time. Sheet1. As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the Earth, they trap the sun's heat. 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. Uses the history of cancer to connect the history of biology and medicine to larger social and cultural developments, including those in bioethics, race, gender, activism, markets, and governance. Provides instruction in the methods historians use to document the past, as well as methods from related fields. Topics center on the psychology of online life, such as the way in which we both share and withhold information about the self. Examines existent critiques of the racial, sexual and environmental politics at stake in techno-scientific cultures. Addressing the effects of climate change is a top priority of the Energy Department. The UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok earlier this month adopted a detailed programme of work. 0000008051 00000 n
Projects focus on speaking and writing, being an expert witness, preparing briefings for policy-makers, writing blogs, giving live interviews for broadcast, and influencing public dialogue through opinion-editorials. STS contributes to undergraduate education at MIT in several ways. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. 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. Completion of work of the senior major thesis under the supervision of a faculty tutor. Guest lectures by MIT-affiliated engineers who contributed to and participated in the Apollo missions. They are mostly located on the ridge of the Pambamarca volcano, which is severely affected by erosion. HASS-E. See description under subject WGS.160[J]. by UC Davis. CO2 emissions are unevenly distributed both globally and regionally within nation-states. 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. Same subject as 21A.550[J] Prereq: Permission of advisor G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)0-1-0 units. 0000008111 00000 n
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Preference to HASTS students; open to others with permission of instructor. 0000010913 00000 n
Study of social and political dimensions of engineering projects, examination of aviation institutions. Same subject as 16.445[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) 0000031470 00000 n
Many of these innovations were pioneered for space travel and planetary exploration before anyone repurposed them for use on Earth. Same subject as WGS.160[J]Prereq: None U (Fall)3-0-9 units. Climate change causes sea levels to rise in two ways. The 2021 extent of ice reached the twelfth lowest annual cover on record since 1979, 4.92 million square kilometers. 0000009178 00000 n
Countries treated include Great Britain, France, Germany, the US, Sweden, Russia, Japan, China, and India. Emphasizes public policy and the federal government's role in that system. Restricted to HASTS PhD students. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (2019) Whats the Difference Between Weather and Climate?. Emphasizes intensive reading of primary sources, which represent past attempts to count, calculate, measure, and model many dimensions of human social life (population, wealth, health, happiness, intelligence, crime, deviance, race). 0000008963 00000 n
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