STV Courses Spring 2012

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1 STV Courses Spring 2012 A few reminders in preparation for the Spring 2012 semester: 1. STV students are strongly encouraged to take the core course, STV 20556, as soon as possible to avoid potential time conflicts in the future. This class will be offered both semesters this academic year, Each of the Science, Technology, and Values courses listed has a cross-listing in one or another of the regular departments of the university. STV Minors may enroll in these as STV courses. 3. Students wishing to use STV courses to satisfy university requirements must register for them as departmental courses, not as STV courses. Students wishing to double-count a course for both a university requirement and for the STV minor should first consult with the STV Education Director, Edward Jurkowitz. Please keep in mind that courses may NOT be double-counted for the STV minor and a major or another minor. 4. As always, please check insidend for the most current course information. Courses are listed according to cluster, then in numerical order. Please contact Edward Jurkowitz, the Director of the undergraduate Program for Science, Technology and Values, at ejurkowi@nd.edu if you have any questions. STV Spring 2012 Course Offerings (Unless otherwise noted, all courses are 3 credit hours). The Core Course This is the only required course for the STV minor. Students are recommended to take it as soon as possible. STV Science Technology & Society (Core Course) MWF 12:50-1:40 (Ed Jurkowitz) CRN Crosslist: HESB 30246, PHIL This course introduces the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies. Our concern will be with science and technology (including medicine) as social and historical, i.e., as human, phenomena. We shall examine the divergent roots of contemporary science and technology, and the similarities and (sometimes surprising) differences in their methods and goals. The central theme of the course will be the ways in which science and technology interact with other aspects of society, including the effects of technical and theoretical innovation in bringing about social change, and the social shaping of science and technology themselves by cultural, economic and political forces. Because science/society interactions so frequently lead to public controversy and conflict, we shall also explore what resources are available to mediate such conflicts in an avowedly democratic society. Cluster 1: Human Dimenstions of Science and Technology Any course number xx1xx is in cluster 1. STV Science and Catholicism MW 1:30-2:45 (O'Callaghan)

2 CRN 29102; Cluster 1, 2 Crosslist: Phil 20627, HESB A historical and philosophical examination of the relations, if there are any, between science and religion with particular reference to the Catholic intellectual tradition. Through the use of historical materials the course will attempt to isolate and examine philosophical difficulties that might be thought to obtain between the claims made by Christian revelation and various scientific theories about features of the world. Emphasis will be placed upon distinctive ways in which the intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church has faced the issues raised. Figures to be considered may include Augustine, Aquinas, Galileo, Bellarmine, Darwin, Huxley, Dawkins, Newman, Leroy, Zahm, LeMaitre, and Hawking, as well as others. Topics to be discussed are Language, Meaning, and Revelation, the Nature of Science, Theory, and Hypothesis, Evolution, the Big Bang, Soul and Body, Creation versus Making, Providence and Chance. STV Architectural History II TR 11:00-12:15 (Doordan) CRN 22057; Cluster 1 Crosslist: ARCH 20628, IIPS This course continues the history survey, beginning with Renaissance and Baroque Europe and continuing to the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and the United States. It extends to the Modern Movement as it affected countries as far-reaching as Japan and Australia. STV Origins of Medical Terminology TR 12:30-1:45 (Ladoceur) CRN 26603; Cluster 1 Crosslist: CLAS , CLAS This course offers an introduction to the ancient Greek and Latin languages that enables students to decipher the arcane and often perplexing vocabulary of modern medicine. Basic linguistic concepts are explained, the manner in which medical terms are constructed from Greek and Latin roots is analyzed, and appropriate contextual material on ancient medicine is provided. This is a course of great practical value, not least for the attention it pays to human anatomy. STV History of Television TR 2:00-3:15 (Lagerwey) CRN 24591; Cluster 1 Crosslist: FTT 30461, AMST Co-Requisite: STV This course analyzes the history of television, spanning from its roots in radio broadcasting to the latest developments in digital television. In assessing the many changes across this span, the course will cover such topics as why the American television industry developed as a commercial medium in contrast to most other national television industries; how television programming has both reflected and influenced cultural ideologies through the decades; and how historical patterns of television consumption have shifted due to new technologies and social changes. Through studying the historical development of television programs and assessing the industrial, technological, and cultural systems out of which they emerged, the course will piece together the catalysts responsible for shaping this highly influential medium. STV History of Television Lab T 5:00-7:00 (Lagerway ) CRN 24597; Cluster 1 Crosslist: FTT Co-Requisite: STV During the lab times, certain television shows will be viewed for further discussion in class.

3 STV Molecular Revolution MW 11:45-1:00 (Bann Torres ) CRN 29113; Cluster 1 Crosslist: ANTH Issues involving the use of genetic technology has become commonplace within our lives. Throughout this course, students will explore the various ways that genetic information is used and interpreted by scientists, media, and the public with the primary goal of illustrating different social meanings of scientific data. Topics that will be covered include pre-implantation genetic testing, prenatal genetic testing, personalized genetic medicine, genetics and identity, genetically modified foods, and consumer-driven genetic testing. STV Crime, Heredity, Insanity in US TR 3:30-4:45 (Pryzbyszewski) CRN 25133; Cluster 1 Crosslist: HIST 40630, AMST 30332, HESB The 19th century witnessed a transformation in the understanding of the origins of criminal behavior in the United States. For many, a religious emphasis on humankind as sinful gave way to a belief in its inherent goodness. But if humans were naturally good, how could their evil actions be explained? Drawing on studies done here and abroad, American doctors, preachers, and lawyers debated whether environment, heredity, or free will determined the actions of the criminal. By the early 20th century, lawyers and doctors had largely succeeded in medicalizing criminality. Psychiatrists treated criminals as patients; judges invoked hereditary eugenics in sentencing criminals. Science, not sin, had apparently become the preferred mode of explanation for the origins of crime. But was this a better explanation than what had come before? STV Psychology and Medicine TR 3:30-4:45 (White, Kolberg ) CRN 22923; Cluster 1, 3 Crosslist: PSY This course has two basic objectives. First, it examines from a lifespan and psychobiological perspective the factors that place individuals at different stages of life at risk for illness and assist them in maintaining their health. In addition, it addresses a variety of challenging psychological and social issues that physicians and other healthcare professionals must face in the practice of medicine. The course covers a range of topics dealing with health issues related to different stages of human development (childhood, adolescence, and adulthood), disabled populations, culture and gender, stress, physician-patient interactions, death and dying, professional ethics, and social policies relating to health care. The course is primarily intended for students intending to enter medical school. Most classes will involve brief formal presentations by the instructors and invited guests, followed by discussion of assigned readings pertinent to the day's topic. In addition, students will be exposed, through a limited practicum, to a variety of medical settings. STV Cultural Aspects/Clinical Medicine TR 5:00-6:15 (Wolosin) CRN 22563; Cluster 1, 3 Crosslist: ANTH 35250, HESB 43509, PSY 43535, SOC This course focuses on social science approaches to sickness and healing. The medical encounter is examined from anthropological perspectives. The course emphasizes the difficulties traditional biomedicine has in addressing patients' expectations for care. Students serve an internship as patient ombudsman in a local hospital emergency room 4 hours per week. Students MUST have access to transportation to participate in the ER internships. Students are required to sign a waiver, to present evidence of immunizations, and to receive a TB skin test.

4 STV Sociology of Media, Technology & Society TR 3:30-4:45 (Halton) CRN 26481; Cluster 1 Crosslist: SOC 43110, HESB From an ever-increasing proliferation of electronic devices and "enscreening" of daily life, to the increased reliance on automatic and non face-to-face interactions, to virtualizing leisure activities, media and technology have become central players in social relations. This seminar will explore the ways media, and technology more generally, are transforming contemporary society. STV Directed Readings: Human Dimensions (McKenny ) CRN 26373; Cluster 1 Directed readings in the 1st cluster - Human Dimensions of Science and Technology STV History and Photography MW 11:45-1:00 (Thomas ) CRN 29112; Cluster 1 Crosslist: HIST Photographs are so much a part of our lives that we often fail to wonder at them or think about how we use them. This course explores photography s alliance (and tension) with histories both personal and political. We begin by considering photography as a private medium, a treasury of personal memories and a mode of self-exploration. We look at family photographs and albums, trying to understand what we are doing when we collect these. As we will find, reading works such as Roland Barthes s Camera Lucida, the photography s value for us personally rests on ontological questions as to the nature of the medium and on its relationship with language and larger social forces. With this realization in mind, we then turn to reading about photography as a public medium, the political histories it tells and the historical interventions it tries to make. This second half of the course explores photography s relationship with the state. The central, guiding question is how photography is used to substantiate and create histories of individuals and of nations. Readings and images will circle the globe from France, Germany and America to India and Japan. STV The Culture of Portable Media MW 1:30-2:45 (Collins) CRN 29115; Cluster 1 Crosslist: FTT The most significant development in media culture within the past decade has not been a new wave in filmmaking or unprecedented developments in television programming. An ever-increasing percentage of the global population now has portable media devices where they can download their music, books, films, and videos into personal digital archives, and then take those libraries with them wherever they go. What are ramifications of this accessibility, and just as importantly, this "archivability"- from the form of the work itself, to who can speak as a cultural authority, to what pleasures are generated by the experience? How have these devices changed the production, circulation, and consumption of media in fundamental ways? How do we sort out the complicated interplay between technology, consumerism, and identity formation which is at the heart of digital culture? Cluster 2: Science, Technology and Ethics Any course number xx2xx is in cluster 2. STV Ethics of Emerging Weapon Technology TR 11:00-12:15 (Lee )

5 CRN 29104; Cluster 2 Crosslist: PHIL 20628, IIPS This course explores the ethical challenges posed by the ongoing revolution in the technology of war. After learning about some general, philosophical approaches to ethical decision making, we will examine a wide range of new weapons technologies, from "smart" bombs, drones, and robots to em (electromagnetic) weapons, cyberwar, and bio-enhancement, asking the question whether the existing framework of Just War Theory and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are adequate for war as it will be fought in the 21st century. STV Ethics of Emerging Weapon Technology TR 2:00-3:15 (Lee ) CRN 29103; Cluster 2 Crosslist: PHIL 20628, IIPS This course explores the ethical challenges posed by the ongoing revolution in the technology of war. After learning about some general, philosophical approaches to ethical decision making, we will examine a wide range of new weapons technologies, from "smart" bombs, drones, and robots to em (electromagnetic) weapons, cyberwar, and bio-enhancement, asking the question whether the existing framework of Just War Theory and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are adequate for war as it will be fought in the 21st century. STV Intro to Clinical Ethics MW 3:00-4:15 (Foster ) CRN 23754; Cluster 2 Crosslist: SCPP The focus of the course will be an examination of the advances in medicine over the last 30 years that have challenged traditional values and ethical norms, and the institutional processes and procedures in place that facilitate decision-making in the health care setting. It will include a sketch of the most recent advances in the various fields of medicine, followed by an examination of the clinical and ethical questions they raise and how they have affected the physician-patient relationship. Note: This course counts as a general elective. Fall and spring. STV People, Environment, Justice TR 3:30-4:45 (Smith) CRN 29109; Cluster 2 Crosslist: ANTH , , IIPS What is our environment? What is our role within our surroundings? How do our actions affect ecological landscapes, and people's livelihoods across the globe? How does our reliance of fossil fuels lead to catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina? What - if anything - does it mean to be "green?" This course will address these and other questions through the use of critically applied anthropology. We will explore the interaction of local peoples and cultures with natural and man-made ecosystems. We will focus equally on traditional environmental knowledge held by small-scale communities as on the usage of the environment by the industrial world. This course will focus on theory and major environmental questions, problems, and possible solutions illustrated by various case studies from different parts of the world. Topics to be discussed include intellectual property rights, poverty and environmental health and justice, economic development, health and emerging disease, and ethno- and eco-tourism. Through readings, films, discussions, and independent research students will be able to critically understand the complexity surrounding humans' place within the environment. STV Internet and Society TR 11:00-12:15 (Rose)

6 CRN 24647; Cluster 2 Crosslist: CAPP 40210, HESB This course will spend the semester studying the impact the World Wide Web has had on several key areas of our society, including communications, commerce, marketing, productivity, education, collaboration, and our sense of community. Through a combination of discussion, group presentation, guest lectures, and out of class research, students will be exposed to some of the profound effects this medium has had on our culture. In spite of the bursting of the dot com bubble, the Web has left all of the above mentioned areas substantially changed, many for the long term. The positive and negative forces brought on by this technology must be recognized, studied, and dealt with if we are to truly embrace the momentous opportunities brought about by the World Wide Web. STV Morality and Machines MWF 8:30-9:20 (Arnold) CRN 29108; Cluster 2 Crosslist: PHIL Computers are an integral part of modern society. This course looks at several moral issues that arise from the use of computers and associated machines, for example, moral issues surrounding automation and computerization, information privacy and security, intellectual property, virtual worlds, and computer crime. STV Morality and Machines CRN 29107; Cluster 2 9:35-10:25 (Arnold) CRN 29107; Cluster 2 Crosslist: Phil Computers are an integral part of modern society. This course looks at several moral issues that arise from the use of computers and associated machines, for example, moral issues surrounding automation and computerization, information privacy and security, intellectual property, virtual worlds, and computer crime. STV Science, Faith and Reason MW 4:30-5:45 (Rasoulipour) CRN 29116; Cluster 2 Crosslist: THEO The twentieth century, and particularly the second half of it, saw not only the increase in findings of natural science, but also the rise of claims that in certain areas scientific findings have supplanted traditional metaphysical reasoning. This amounts to the claim that in the debate between faith and reason the role of reason is taken by science. Faith, if it does not completely atrophy, is faith in science and not faith in God. The latest debates between faith and scientific reason, often of an extremely speculative turn, are new phases to old debates over the perennial question: Is the universe just there, or is there some explanation for its physical character, and for its very existence? In this course we will examine the literature of both classical Christian and classical Islamic theology and philosophy in order to see how these traditions address the relationship between science, faith, and reason. The goal of the course is neither religious dialogue nor a comparison of the two traditions. Instead we will consider what resources both traditions offer intellectuals today who see science, religion and philosophy as partners in the quest to understand human existence and the natural world. No prior knowledge of Islam is needed in order to take this course. This course will be conducted with the help of extracts from original works of medieval and contemporary Christian and Muslim writers on some scientific topics (mathematics, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, physics, etc.) in addition to classical treatments of faith and reason (whether from Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho, Tertullian's The Prescriptions against the Heretics, Ghazali's Deliverance from Error, and The

7 Incoherence of the Philosophers, Aquinas' Summa Theologica or John Paul II's Fides et Ratio and the writings of Muslim "neo-mutazilites"). STV Forbidden Knowledge MW 5:00-6:15 (Kourany) CRN 29117; Cluster 1, 2 Crosslist: PHIL 93826, HPS 93826, PHIL Within the last 10 years historians of science such as Robert Proctor, Londa Schiebinger, Peter Galison, and Naomi Oreskes, have been promoting a new area of enquiry - Proctor calls it agnotology, the study of ignorance - which they suggest is of as much relevance to philosophers and social scientists and others as it is to historians. Indeed, the suggestion is that agnotology offers a new approach to the study of knowledge, an approach at least as complex and important as its more established sister, epistemology. In this course we shall focus especially on socially constructed ignorance - the kind exemplified by governmental secrecy and censorship, or industry-engineered confusion (think of the tobacco industry or the pharmaceutical industry), or the 'virtuous ignorance' that would ensue if certain kinds of research (think of race- and gender-related cognitive differences research) were no longer supported. This will lead us to consider the kinds of freedom of research and other social structures that need to be in place to support the legitimate quest for knowledge, and thence to the recognition that agnotological/epistemological questions are also, ultimately, political questions. Cluster 3: Science, Technology and Public Policy Course numbers xx3xx are in cluster 3. STV Environmental Chemistry TR 2:00-3:15 (Kamat ) CRN Crosslist: CHEM Discussion of basic chemical processes occurring in the environment, particularly those relating to the impact of humanity's technological enterprise. STV Population Dynamics MW 3:00-4:15 (Williams ) CRN 23573; Cluster 3 Crosslist: SOC 43402, HESB 30487, IIPS Demography, the science of population, is concerned with virtually everything that influences, or can be influenced by, population size, distribution, processes, structure, or characteristics. This course pays particular attention to the causes and consequences of population change. Changes in fertility, migration, mortality, technology, lifestyle and culture have dramatically affected the United States and other nations of the world. These changes have implications for a number of areas: hunger, the spread of illness and disease, environmental degradation, health services, household formation, the labor force, marriage and divorce, care for the elderly, birth control, poverty, urbanization, business marketing strategies, and political power. An understanding of these is important as business, government and individuals attempt to deal with the demands of a changing population. Cluster 4: Electives Course numbers xx4xx can only be counted toward the elective portion of the STV minor. Students may take any STV course to count towards this elective.

8 STV Are We Eating Good Food? TR 9:30-10:45 (Hicks ) CRN 29106; Cluster IV Crosslist: PHIL In the last few years, an increasing number of voices have answered the title question for this course with a resounding ``no." In this course, we will develop conceptual tools from ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of science to critically engage with both proponents and critics of several aspects of our contemporary food system. Possible topics will be picked based on student interest, and include but are not limited to vegetarianism, conventional vs. organic vs. ``beyond organic' agriculture, transgenic or GMO crops, justice for food workers, scientific and public policy controversies over nutrition and health, food deserts, and ``special interest' control of agricultural politics and economics. We will also be working on a service project with Purple Porch Co-op -- a local food co-op -- in order to understand how these issues appear in and impact the food system of the Michiana region. STV Are We Eating Good Food? TR 11:00-12:15 (Hicks) CRN 29105; Cluster IV Crosslist: PHIL In the last few years, an increasing number of voices have answered the title question for this course with a resounding ``no." In this course, we will develop conceptual tools from ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of science to critically engage with both proponents and critics of several aspects of our contemporary food system. Possible topics will be picked based on student interest, and include but are not limited to vegetarianism, conventional vs. organic vs. ``beyond organic' agriculture, transgenic or GMO crops, justice for food workers, scientific and public policy controversies over nutrition and health, food deserts, and ``special interest' control of agricultural politics and economics. We will also be working on a service project with Purple Porch Co-op -- a local food co-op -- in order to understand how these issues appear in and impact the food system of the Michiana region. STV Water, Disease, & Global Health MW 1:30-2:45 (Shrout, Severson) CRN ; Cluster IV Crosslist: CE 40355, BIOS 60610, CE 60355, GH 60355, IDS The main emphasis of the course will be to study the diseases important to both civilized societies and the third world. Basic principles of public health, epidemiology, infectious disease microbiology, and engineering application will be learned utilizing both local and global examples. Particular emphasis will be given to diseases transmitted by water. As a complement to environmental design classes, this class will focus upon the disease agents removed in properly designed municipal water and waste systems STV Architecture - Twentieth Century TR 5:00-6:15 (Doordan) CRN ; Cluster IV Crosslist: ARCH 50221, ARHI 40470, ARHI This course is a survey of the significant themes, movements, buildings, and architects in 20th-century architecture. Rather than validate a single design ideology such as Modernism, Postmodernism, or Classicism, this account portrays the history of architecture as the manifestation-in design terms-of a continuing debate concerning what constitutes an appropriate architecture for this century. Topics include developments in building technologies, attempts to integrate political and architectural ideologies, the evolution of design theories, modern urbanism, and important building types in modern architecture such as factories, skyscrapers, and housing. Class format consists of lecture and discussion with assigned readings, one midterm exam, a final exam, and one written assignment.

9 STV American Towns and Cities TR 9:30-10:45 (Steil ) CRN 29119; Cluster IV Crosslist: ARCH This course addresses the nature and metrics of the American city and town and discusses historically essential qualities, as well as contemporary potentials for a sustainable urban quality. Though the class will explore a wide range of comparative studies of American precedents and some European examples, most of the practical exercises will be done either in South Bend or neighboring towns. STV Philosophical Issues in Physics MW 11:45-1:00 (Bland) CRN 24568; Cluster IV Crosslist: PHIL 24440, PHYS This course is intended for non-science students who desire to begin an examination of the origins of the modern laws of physics and for science students who wish to know the actual route to the discovery and the broader implications of the formal theories with which they are already familiar. The historical background to and philosophical questions associated with major laws of physics will be discussed, in large measure by examining directly relevant excerpts from the writings of some of the creators of seminal concepts and theories in physics. The latter part of the course will concentrate on historical and philosophical issues related to relativity and especially to quantum theory and its interpretation. STV Foundations Sociological Theory TR 11:00-12:15 (Lizardo) CRN 29110; Cluster IV Crosslist: SOC 30900, HESB Sociological theory is the foundation of sociology. Students in this course will learn two things: first, what theorists do and why and, second, how to use fundamental theoretic concepts - such as exploitation and alienation, social structure and solidarity, bureaucracy and charisma - to analyze and explain contemporary society. STV Methods Sociological Research TR 11:00-12:15 (Gunty) CRN 29111; Cluster IV Crosslist: SOC 30902, HESB Sociology is designed to provide an overview of research methods in the social sciences. Topics covered include (1) hypothesis formulation and theory construction; (2) the measurement of sociological variables; and (3) data collection techniques - experimental, survey, and observational. At the end of the course, students should appreciate both the strengths and the limitations of sociological research methods.