Guide to Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Guide to Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Public Policy
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University of California, Berkeley
Science, Technology, and Society Center
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Science, Technology, and Society Center
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Cori Hayden
Alistair Iles
Charis Thompson
David Winickoff
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Background
The Science, Technology, and Society Center brings together a diverse community of scholars studying the origins, growth, and consequences of scientific and technological knowledge and practice. Taking a broad construal of our domain, including medicine, environment, new media, and related areas, we draw affiliates from the social sciences, the humanistic disciplines, and professional and public policy fields.
At Berkeley, outstanding faculty and students in this trans-disciplinary arena are spread across a score of departments. STSC facilitates linkages of discussion, training, and collaboration. Further, the Center seeks to build cooperative networks with other University of California campuses and to give support to broader collaborations.
The Center's aims are:
- To encourage scholarship that considers the local, national, and transnational dynamics of science and technology.
- To stimulate public discussion with broadly framed lectures and workshops, and to disseminate news of relevant events.
- To foster cross-disciplinary interactions, acting as a clearinghouse for existing centers, departments, and programs.
- To provide a platform for working groups and research collaborations that fit in no single department, offering assistance in pursuit of extramural funding.
- To help meet the need for broadly trained individuals in this field, supporting the development of curricular materials and coordinating information about courses and instructors.
- To develop and support expertise in critical areas of science and technology policy.
- To carry out outreach through our website and through public programs.
- To foster connections among STS programs in the University of California system, across the country, and in other parts of the world.
Graduate Degrees Offered
Science, Technology, and Society offerings are found in a wide range of teaching programs. For a sense of the possibilities, see both the STS course list and the listing of faculty interests.
In addition, a variety of departments offer courses of study (tracks, streams, or degree programs) specifically related to STS. These cover a broad spectrum of perspectives and methods, including:
Energy and Resources
Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) is an interdisciplinary academic unit of the University of California at Berkeley, conducting programs of graduate teaching and research that treat issues of energy, resources, development, human and biological diversity, environmental justice, governance, global climate change and new approaches to thinking about economics and consumption. Established in 1973, ERG offers two-year MA and MS degrees in Energy and Resources, as well as a PhD. The program also offers an undergraduate minor in Energy and Resources. The minor offers undergraduates the opportunity to develop basic knowledge and skills to help them address complex and interdependent issues associated with human use of energy and resources. Although designed primarily to complement majors in the natural sciences and engineering, students in other majors with appropriate prerequisites might also choose it.
Environmental Law
Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Boalt Hall offers students an unparalleled program in environmental law, one that reflects the broad interdisciplinary nature of this field. Students may choose from numerous environmental law courses and seminars. In addition regular course offerings are augmented by international and comparative environmental law courses. A certificate indicating successful completion of the program is awarded to those who fulfill the specialization requirements.
History of Science
Department of History, UC Berkeley
Students of the history of science examine the intellectual, cultural, political, and social development of science from ancient times to the present. The graduate program is part of Berkeley's Department of History, and its students emerge prepared to teach and do research at the interface of history and the history of science. Along with the history of science, students pursue a second field of history and an outside field in another department (a science, public policy, or anthropology, for instance). Students interested in the history of medicine can take advantage of the offerings of UCSF's doctoral program in the history of health sciences.
Law and Technology
Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Boalt Hall developed the nation’s leading program in law and technology for students interested in concentrating their studies in this area. To receive the certificate upon graduation, students need to fulfill both curricular and extracurricular requirements. The curricular requirements emphasize depth and breadth of coverage and afford students substantial flexibility in adapting their course of study toward a range of career paths at the growing intersection of law and technology.
Management of Technology
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
MOT is the most popular interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley, with classes and fellowship programs made up of roughly an equal number of Haas MBAs and UC Berkeley Engineering and SIMS MS and PhD students. An associated MOT Certificate program allows students to specialize in Management of Technology as they obtain their degrees. MOT focuses on the operational and organizational issues associated with managing new product development and commercialization.
Medical Anthropology, Joint UCB/UCSF Program
Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco
Medical Anthropology increases our understanding of health-related beliefs and behaviors of all kinds, from the precise products of science to the silent rituals of culturally scripted healing. The Joint UCB/UCSF Ph.D. Program in Medical Anthropology provides disciplinary leadership and outstanding and comprehensive training leading to the Ph.D. degree. No other program offers the Joint Program's combination of excellence in critical medical anthropology, studies of science, technology and modernity, intersections of medicine and social theory, and cutting edge scholarship in the analysis of many fields.
Berkeley Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/phdmedical.intro.html
UCSF Website: http://www.dahsm.medschool.ucsf.edu/medical/index.aspx
New Media (Designated Emphasis)
Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
The Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media is an interdisciplinary doctoral program available to graduate students who are currently enrolled in departments and programs in the Arts, Humanities, Engineering, Architecture, and Social Sciences in UC Berkeley. It provides an interdisciplinary forum intended to systematize graduate education, catalyze research collaboration, and enhance the sense of intellectual community in New Media. The DE in New Media comprises a set of courses with content in the history, theory and practice of computationally-based representation and communication of information. Students enrolled in the Designated Emphasis program must complete academic work in the Designated Emphasis in addition to the full requirements of the PhD programs in which they are enrolled.
Public Policy and Engineering
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Government and technology interact more, and with greater consequences, every year. Whether the issue area is environmental protection, intellectual property (copyright and the internet), health care, water supply, or any of myriad other contexts, government agencies at all levels, non-profit organizations and private industry need people who understand technology on its own terms and also the ways government supports, controls, or directs it. The Goldman School of Public Policy and the College of Engineering offer a joint degree program that allows a student admitted to both schools to receive the MS and MPP degrees in two years including a summer internship, or the M.Eng and MPP in three.
Rhetoric of Science
Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Under Development!
Society and Environment
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
Society and Environment is one of three disciplinary emphases within ESPM for the Ph.D. Our mission is to bring social science perspectives and tools to the teaching and analysis of natural resource and environmental problems, and to develop management strategies to address these problems. The research, teaching, and extension of Society and Environment faculty and students explore how social and cultural processes and institutions influence and are influenced by natural resources and environmental phenomena.
Transnational Feminist Studies: Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine Area
Graduate Group in Transnational Feminist Studies, UC Berkeley
Under Development!
Faculty Information
Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests
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- Renata Marson Teixeira de Andrade-Downs - Lecturer, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- Ruzena Bajcsy - Professor,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB
- David Bates - Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
- Philippe Bourgois - Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Charles Briggs - Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology -
- Clair Brown - Professor, Department of Economics - UCB
- Cathryn Carson - Associate Professor, Department of History - UCB
- James Casey - Professor, Mechanical Engineering - UCB
- Urs Cipolat - Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Field - UCB
- Adele E. Clarke - Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences - UCSF
- Lawrence Cohen - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology - UCB
- Marianne Constable - Professor, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
- Frederick M. Dolan - Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
- Brian Dolan - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- John Douglass - Senior Research Fellow, Center for Studies in Higher Education - UCB
- Daniel Farber - Sato Sho Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law - UCB
- Alex Farrell - Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- Jerome Feldman - Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - UCB
- Louise Fortmann - Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management - UCB
- Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology - UCB
- Evelyn Nakano Glenn - Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies - UCB
- Kenneth Goldberg - Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - UCB
- Deborah R. Gordon - Research Specialist, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Roger Hahn - Professor, Department of History - UCB
- Bronwyn H. Hall - Professor, Department of Economics - UCB
- Jodi Halpern - Assistant Professor, School of Public Health - UCB
- Gary Handman - Director, Media Resources Center - UCB
- Donna Haraway - Professor, Department of History of Consciousness - UCSC
- Gillian Hart - Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Major in Development Studies - UCB
- John Harte - Professor, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- Corine Hayden - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology - UCB
- David Hollinger - Professor and Chair, Department of History - UCB
- Ernest B. Hook - Professor, School of Public Health - UCB
- Sally Smith Hughes - Academic Specialist, Regional Oral History Office - UCB
- Alastair Iles - Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management - UCB
- Jennifer Johnson-Hanks - Assistant Professor, Department of Demography - UCB
- Daniel M. Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- William Kastenberg - Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering - UCB
- Sharon Kaufman - Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Ann Keller - Assistant Professor, School of Public Health - UCB
- Todd R. La Porte - Professor, Department of Political Science - UCB
- Ann Lage - Principal Interviewer, Regional Oral History Office - UCB
- Thomas Laqueur - Professor, Department of History - UCB
- John Lie - Dean, International and Area Studies - UCB
- Kristin Luker - Professor, Boalt School of Law - UCB
- Stephen Maurer - Acting Director, Information Technology and Homeland Security Project - UCB
- Maryanne McCormick - Associate Director of Policy and Outreach, Senior Attorney - Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology - UCB
- Laura McCreery - Program Director, Regional Oral History Office - UCB
- Carolyn Merchant - Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management - UCB
- Hélène Mialet - Visiting Scholar, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
- Deirdre K. Mulligan - Acting Clinical Professor, Boalt School of Law - UCB
- Greg Niemeyer - Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice - UCB
- Alva Noë - Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy - UCB
- Richard Norgaard - Professor, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- Aihwa Ong - Professor, Department of Anthropology - UCB
- Abena Osseo-Asare - Assistant Professor, Department of History - UCB
- Nancy Lee Peluso - Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management - UCB
- Michael Pollan - Professor, Graduate School of Journalism - UCB
- Dorothy Porter - Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Paul Rabinow - Professor, Department of Anthropology - UCB
- Leigh Raiford - Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies - UCB
- Jennifer Reardon - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology - UCSC
- Francesca Rochberg - Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies - UCB -
- Gene Rochlin - Professor, Energy and Resources Group - UCB
- Christine Rosen - Associate Professor, Haas School of Business - UCB
- Pamela Samuelson - Professor, School of Information Management and Systems - UCB
- AnnaLee Saxenian - Dean, School of Information Management and Systems - UCB
- Nathan Sayre - Assistant Professor, Department of Geography - UCB
- Harry N. Scheiber - Professor, Boalt School of Law - UCB
- Randy Schekman - Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology - UCB
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes - Professor, Department of Anthropology - UCB
- Suzanne Scotchmer - Professor, Department of Economics - UCB
- Barbara Shapiro - Emeritus Professor, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
- Janet Shim - Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences - UCSF - -
- Justin Suran - Royer Fellow, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Margaret Taylor - Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy - UCB
- David J. Teece - Professor, Haas School of Business - UCB
- Charis Thompson - Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies - UCB
- Nancy Van House - Professor, School of Information Management and Systems - UCB
- Hal Varian - Professor, School of Information Management and Systems - UCB
- Elizabeth Watkins - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine - UCSF
- Michael Watts - Professor, Department of Geography - UCB
- Steven Weber - Professor, Department of Political Science - UCB
- David Winickoff - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management - UCB
- Michael Wintroub - Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric - UCB
Other Information
The Center has at its core three research themes: How can we get the right balance between open and closed science and technology? How can we overcome local and global divides in science and technology? What are the historical and continuing relations between science and democracy?
Open and Closed Science and Technology: At least since the end of the second world war there has been widespread agreement that free societies are best served by generously promoting the best (as judged by experts through peer review) disinterested, open, fundamental science. Concomitantly, national security, public health, and market uptake of discovery have seemed to demand secret / state directed / proprietary science to support the very civic stability in which open science flourishes. Does the on-going blurring of lines between the academy, industry, the military, the state, and the public threaten the distinctness of the goals of open and closed science, and what impacts will this have on the society?
Overcoming Local and Global Divides: Science holds particular promise as an educational and value system and as an engine of innovation for overcoming local and global inequality. Similarly, technology, appropriately contextualized and implemented, holds great promise for securing natural resources, improving educational and economic opportunity, and in mitigating armed conflict around the world. What kinds of science governance are most likely to realize these potentials for poverty and environmental degradation mitigation, without reproducing the us/them dynamics that currently underwrites many such divides? Are there fundamental limitations to scientific and technological solutions?
Democracy: The inclusion and engagement of stakeholders and the general public in the scientific enterprise. In all the areas upon which we have chosen to focus, the recognition and involvement of stakeholders and the general public is of fundamental importance in gaining assent to as well as regulating the science in question, assuring the best scientific workforce possible, and in defining risks, benefits, success and failure. What models of risk and benefit sharing, the public good, lay and expert knowledge, and public understanding of and participation in science promote this optimal inclusion and governance?
