HASS-H. Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. 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A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda. STS subjects help them think realistically and creatively about the intellectual, moral, political, and social issues raised by the rapid growth of science and technology in the 20th century and beyond. 0000014189 00000 n Surveys research on quantification, the practice of using numerical data and calculation to analyze, order, and control. Provides a global view of STS in an increasingly interconnected world. We are entering into a period of intensive and very significant negotiations. Includes in-class discussion of readings, short written and multimedia assignments, final project. Coal. HASS-H; CI-H. See description under subject 12.384[J]. Open to undergraduates by permission of instructor. Focuses on construction of big projects like cities, hydroelectricity dams, roads, railway lines, ports and harbors, transport and communication, mines, industrial processing plant, and plantations. Integrates perspectives from history, philosophy, sociology, economics, management, political science, brain and cognitive science and other relevant literatures, creating a solid foundation from which to interpret current public discourse on the subject. Students meet and question technologists, activists, law enforcement agents, journalists, and legal experts. Its glass walls trap the Sun's heat, which keeps plants inside the greenhouse warm even on cold nights. Hansen, J., et al. Due to increasing temperature, large reserves of organic matter frozen in subarctic permafrost will thaw and decay, releasing additional CO. National Research Council (2011) Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Topics range from relativity theory and quantum mechanics to high-energy physics and cosmology. The world is now warming faster than at any point in recorded history . The 2021 extent of ice reached the twelfth lowest annual cover on record since 1979, 4.92 million square kilometers. Pub. 0000004983 00000 n United States Speaker: Anthony C. Janetos Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute This evidence-based presentation makes it clear that climate change isn't some future abstraction, nor is it a far-off phenomenon happening to people in other parts of . Students work in teams on a final project analyzing an aspect of the historical project to articulate and synthesize ideas in engineering systems. Subjects. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Atmospheric concentrations of some of the gases that produce the greenhouse effect are increasing due to human activity and most of the world's climate scientists consider that this is a significant part of the cause of observed climate change. Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Examines existent critiques of the racial, sexual and environmental politics at stake in techno-scientific cultures. It offers general subjects to introduce students to broad social and intellectual perspectives on science and engineering fields. HASS-H; CI-H. Examines the development of modern physics within shifting institutional, cultural, and political contexts, such as physics in Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany, US efforts during World War II, and physicists' roles during the Cold War. 0000006561 00000 n 0000006048 00000 n Designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes and processes that affect people. Considers developments in the epidemiology, therapy, and politics of cancer. Same subject as 21A.407[J], 21G.057[J], WGS.275[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) Includes brief reflection papers and a final paper. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-3-6 units. Same subject as 21A.505[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. Regents of the University of Michigan, Produced by Same subject as 11.652[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000159471 00000 n Enrollment limited. CLIMATE CHANGE What is Climate Change? The Minor in Science, Technology, and Society consists of six STS subjects, including STS.004, at least one additional subject from the Tier I list, and at least one subject from the Tier II list. Climate Change - The Science (Updated November 2021) The greenhouse effect occurs naturally, providing a habitable climate. Student works closely with STS faculty tutor. Focuses on the US but uses international examples. Study of social and political dimensions of engineering projects, examination of aviation institutions. It also includes maps to highlight . Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Taught in English. 0000001054 00000 n Same subject as 21H.984[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered In the 20th century, global mean sea level rose between 17 and 21 cm, after having been quite stable over the previous several thousand years. 0000008051 00000 n Same subject as 21A.501[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Introduction to the consideration of technology as the outcome of particular technical, historical, cultural, and political efforts, especially in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. 0000031604 00000 n The Royal Society, together with the world's leading scientific academies, have issued a statement on the need to accelerate action on . Students read key texts, analyze key debates (e.g. Double major applications from students in other schools (e.g., Architecture and Planning; Management; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 0000009688 00000 n using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Goal is to equip students with skills for team-based trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural problem-solving. Same subject as 21A.319[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered As global temperatures rise, wildfires, drought, and high electricity demand put stress on the nation's energy infrastructure. 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. Students work on a term-long project, organized around the design, fabrication, and installation of an original multimedia exhibit about current scientific research at MIT. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)2-0-7 units. Topics center on the psychology of online life, such as the way in which we both share and withhold information about the self. Disturbances of the Earths balance of incoming and outgoing energy are referred to as positive or negative climate forcings. Explores how and why physical education was integrated into the US educational system while remaining separate from academic subjects and how and why 21st-century institutions might combine the two. Humans have warmed the planet by approximately 1.0C (1.8F) in the past 150 years, which has increased the risk of wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, and floods. U.S. EPA (2021) Climate Change Indicators: Length of Growing Season. Organized around interviewing and observational assignments. 0000009399 00000 n HASS-S. See description under subject 11.244[J]. In pictures: the impact of the climate crisis and human activity on our oceans, Weird winter weather and reminders of a warming planet, Horn of Africa drought worse than 2011,and the other climate crisis stories you need to read this week, Cooling the planet: US researchers develop newclimate-friendly method of cooling, Electric refuse trucks could soon be coming to pick up your weekly trash. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) It has green colors, connected to the environment, and includes pedagogical illustrations related to ecology. The use of biography in different historical periods to illuminate aspects of the development of science. Wed, 06/01/2022 - 12:00. 0000008588 00000 n 0000005446 00000 n HASS-S. Explores new pathways to use the latest science and technologies to understand the past. Same subject as 8.225[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. 0000008810 00000 n Countries treated include Great Britain, France, Germany, the US, Sweden, Russia, Japan, China, and India. Topics include industrialization of production and consumption, development of engineering professions, the emergence of management and its role in shaping technological forms, the technological construction of gender roles, and the relationship between humans and machines. developed tools for planting, hunting, cooking and fishing; for war or tribal conflicts; transportation; and musical instruments. 0000010004 00000 n HASS-H. Explores the changing roles of physics and physicists during the 20th century. Life during the Spanish Era. Comparison is drawn between biography as a literary form in the history of science and in other disciplines. Enrollment limited. 0000000816 00000 n Same subject as 24.06[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) Limited to 40. Environmental Research Letters, 9(2), 1-9. NOAA (2022) State of the Climate: 2021Global Climate Report. One of the alternatives is to start producing lab-grown meat, and to produce meat substitutes . Primary emphasis on textiles and metalworking, with particular attention to the role of the machine tool industry in the American manufacturing economy. See description under subject 21A.509[J]. Undergraduate research opportunities in the STS Program. 0000017098 00000 n People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability . 0000175753 00000 n By 2035, IPCC predicts that the temperature will rise between 0.3-0.7. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association, the American Association of Geographers, the American Sociological Association, and Prereq: None G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. Same subject as 22.04[J]Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Covers the political arithmetic of the 17th century to the present. Ice ages are at least partially caused by changes in Earth's orbit and axis. This work has been largely completed and the path has been cleared for real adaptation-related action "Climate Change: Science and Impacts Factsheet." Team-taught face-to-face classes at multiple US and African universities connected live via Zoom. Examines ideas, institutions, and the social settings of the sciences, with emphasis on how cultural contexts influence scientific concepts and practices. Examples include the denial of evolution, human-induced climate change, and particular medical-scientific aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some mandatory field trips may occur during class time. HASS-S. Explores a range of controversies about the role of technology, the nature of scientific research and the place of politics in science: debates about digital piracy and privacy, the role of activism in science, the increasingly unclear boundaries between human and non-human, the role of MRIs as courtroom evidence, the potential influence of gender on scientific research, etc. Addresses a special topic in Science, Technology and Society which is not offered in the regular curriculum. 0000002572 00000 n Provides a broad conceptual and historical introduction to scientific theories of evolution and their place in the wider culture. Salvo, Paul Luigi M. Science , Technology, and Society May 27, 2022 1. Students develop a bibliography of anthropological and ethnographic writing relevant to their project, and write a short paper about integrating ethnographic methods into a future research project. These gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, warm and alter the global climate, which causes environmental changes to occur that can harm people's health and well . 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. 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