Engineering 205 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS

This course draws on readings from philosophy, science and technology studies, feminist and postcolonial science studies, and engineering to examine topics including technology and control, science and social inequality, and the drive toward production and consumption on increasingly large, cheap, fast, automated, and global scales. What new models of science and engineering can change who decides how science and engineering are done, who can participate in the scientific enterprise, and what problems are legitimately addressed? Some course experience in one or more of the following is required: philosophy and ethics, the study of women and gender, or science and engineering. Enrollment limited to 15.