Guide to Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Public Policy

North Carolina State Univerisity  

Graduate Minor in Science, Technology, and Society

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****The Graduate Minor in Science, Technology, and Society is currently under development.****

For more information contact: Hope Ziglar Student Services, IDS.

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• Background
• Graduate Degrees Offered
• Admissions Requirements
• Degree Requirements
• Student Information
• Faculty Information
• Positions for Graduates
• Financial Information
• Other Information

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Background

The objectives of the STS Program are to:

• Help its students learn some of the alternative ways of thinking and conducting research that characterize the interdisciplinary Science, Technology & Society field, and to relate these to larger human concerns
• Enable its students to explore complex STS topics by seeing them from multiple perspectives and in relation of other topics, and to integrate STS information and concepts from a variety of sources
• Provide its students with the skills and resources to learn key STS concepts, literature, practices, and issues in order to encourage lifelong learning

Graduate Degrees Offered

Minor in Science, Technology and Society

Admissions Requirements

Degree Requirements

 

Student Information

 

Faculty Information

PROFESSORS

• David M. Berube, Professor Of Communication
• John Carroll, Professor of Philosophy
• Denis Gray, Professor of Psychology
• Douglas Jesseph, Professor of Philosophy
• Carolyn Miller, SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication
• Robert Patterson, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Crop Science
• Edith Sylla , Emeritus Professor of History

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

• David Austin, Associate Professor of Philosophy
• Ross Bassett, Associate Professor of History*
• Nora Haenn, Associate Professor of Anthropology
• Patrick Hamlett, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society*
• William Kimler, Associate Professor and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of History*
• William Kinsella, Associate Professor of Communication, Chair, STS Advisory Committee*
• Stephen Markham, Associate Professor of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Jeremy Packer, Associate Professor of Communication
• Sarah Stein, Associate Professor of Communication and Vice Provost for Information Technology Special Projects
• Jason Swarts, Associate Professor of English*
• Stephen Wiley, Associate Professor of Communication*
• R. Michael Young, Associate Professor of Computer Science

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

• Lauren Nauta Minsky, Assistant Professor of history
• Adriana de Souza e Silva, Assistant Professor of Communication

  * 2009-2010 STS Program Advisory Committee member

Affiliated Faculty

• Catherine Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Karey Harwood, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Adjunct Faculty

• Keith Earnshaw, Teaching Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
• Daniel Graham, Teaching Assistant Professor of Political Science and Interdisciplinary Studies
• Pankaj Jain, Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Litrature
• Nell Kriesberg, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies
• Philipp Tavakoli, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies

Positions for Graduates

Financial Information

Other Information