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Courses Currently Approved for the STS Graduate Certificate
The graduate committee has reviewed the courses listed below and deemed them appropriate for the STS certificate program. It will continue to review courses for inclusion on a yearly basis. Students may petition the grad committee to include courses not listed below. Highlighted courses are being offered in the upcoming term.
African and Afroamerican Studies +
433 — Activism in Race, Gender and Health (Haniff)
458.004 — Health and African Development (Stein)
458.008 —Cultural Aspects of Health (Colman-Burns)
462 — Globalization and African Health (Stern)
483/5 — Gender, Poverty, Medicine (Fadlalla)
495 — AIDS in Africa (Ellsworth)
596 — The History of Environmental Thought and Activism (Taylor)
629 — Bodies, Technologies and Nature(s) in Africa (Hecht)
Anthropology +
496 — Human Genetics, Disease and Culture (Bigham)
513 — Urbanization and Technological Change in Africa
541 — Environmental Anthropology (Kirsch)
543 — Demographic Approaches in Anthropology (Fricke & Renne)
548 — Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology (Peters-Golden & Renne)
558 — The Anthropology of Time (Roberts)
458/558 — Maternal/child Health, the Environment, & Pollution in Africa (Renne)
558 — Ethnography of Mining (Kirsch)
563 — Mechanisms of Human Adaptation (Frisancho)
Architecture and Urban Planning / Design +
506 / UP 506 Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture (Kelbaugh)
509 — Going Soft: Aesthetic Regimes of the Human Sciences in the 20th Century (Knoblauch)
526 — Sociocultural Issues in Planning and Architecture (Swartzbaugh)
531 — Networked Cities (McCullogh)
532 — Sustainable Development: Resolving Economic & Environmental Conflicts (Campbell)
572 — Transportation and Land Use Planning (Levine)
603 — Functionalism and Aesthetic Regimes (Knoblauch and Zimmerman)
650 — Advanced Urban Theory (Campbell)
671 — Public Policy and Transportation (Staff)
729 — Sustainable City (McCullough)
UP 502 Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts
525 Food Systems Planning (Hoey)
560 Behavior and Environment (De Young)
671 Public Policy and Transportation (Grengs)
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Studies +
581 — Space Policy and Management (Fisk)
Communications +
453 — Media in US History (Vaillant)
458 — Media and Technology (Vaillant)
459 —Gender and Law (Sparr)
464 —Mobile Communication (Campbell)
466 — Internet, Society & the Law (Sparr)
478 — Media and Globalization (Punathambekar)
775 — History of Media Theory: The Humanities Tradition (Scannell)
810 — Mobile Communication and Society (Campbell)
820 — New Media History and Theory (Ankerson)
828 — Historical Approaches to Media & Technology (Vaillant)
840.001 Technology and Play (Sandvig)
840.002 Unorthodox Research Methods (Sandvig)
Engineering +
Biomed 550 Ethics and Enterprise (Huang, Said)
Chem 597 Regulatory Issues (Ascione, Wang)
ESeng 501 Seminar on Energy Systems, Technology & Policy (Linic, Suljo)
ESeng 599 Special Topics in Energy Systems Engineering (Keoleian)
Mecheng 589 Sustainable Design of Technology Systems (Skerlos)
523 — Business of Biology (Barry)
567 — Energy Infrastructure Systems (Lastoskie)
686 — Environmental Sustainability (Adriaens)
English +
842 — Liberalism and Scientific Thought (Hartley)
Environmental Health Science +
500 — Principles of Environmental Health Science (Neitzel)
504 — Genes and Environment (Franzblau)
506 — Intro to International Health (Monto, Harlow)
615 — Water Quality and Human Health (Nriagu)
580 — Conservation Biology (Cardinale)
591 — Equality Issues in Environmental Health (Nriagu)
Epidemiology +
515 — Genetics in Public Health (Smith)
555 — Globalization and Health
626 — Health Services and Policy
666 — Health and Socio-economic Development (Stein)
Health Behavior and Health Education +
540 — Reproductive Health (Anderson, Walker)
603 — Population Change (Snow)
610 — Public Health Ethics
623 — Racial and Ethnic Health Disparity (Singh)
661 — Communities in Crisis (Button)
667 — Bioterrorism: Community Preparation & Response
668 — Health Communication (Resnicow)
690 — Environmental Health (Schulz)
Health and Healthcare Research +
700 Research in Health and Society (Howell, Heisler)
Health Management and Policy +
605 — Health Information Technology (Friedman)
615 — Introduction to Public Health Policy (Jacobson, Rubin)
618 — Tobacco Social Policy
624 — Health Policy in Development (McLaren)
649 — Health IT Policy (Adler-Milsten)
652 — Health Law (Jacobson)
653 — Law and Public Health (Bouma)
657 — Ethical Frontiers (Griffith)
History +
508 — Technology, Colonialism, and Development (Hecht)
576 — Epidemics (Permick)
592 — Japan: Green Archipelago,Toxic Archipelago (Pincus)
606 — Technology, Knowledge, and Culture (Hecht)
619 — Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, & Medicine (grad core course; Carson)
620 — Global Health, Reproductive Medicine and Biopower (Hunt)
620 — Studies in the History of Medicine (Pernick)
620 — Colonial/Tropical Medicine (Hunt)
629 — Bodies, Technologies and Nature(s) in Africa (Hecht)
674 — The Feeling of Things in Modern Southeast Asia (Mrazek)
685 — Human Natures and Social Orderings (Carson)
698 — Knowledge and Information Infrastructures (Edwards)
796 — Knowledge and Practice (Hecht)
History of Art +
HART 680.001 — BioArt International (Robertson)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies +
655 — Gender, Sex and Health (Padilla)
Philosophy +
560 — Topics in the Philosophy of Science (Belot)
562 — Philosophy of Physics
Political Science +
620 — Research in Politics and the Mass Media (Valentino/Traugott)
761 — Global Environmental Change and the State (Jacobson)
Rackham +
571 STeMS Colloquium (Stern)
619 Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology & Medicine (Carson)
School of Information +
500 — Information in Social Systems (Sandvig)
511 —Information Policy Analysis (King)
514 — Informatics and Health (Friedman)
523 — Information and Control (King)
528 — History of Computers and Networks (Edwards)
529 — eCommunities (Lampe)
535 — Dead Media (Brunton)
541/741 — Knowledge and Information Infrastructures (Edwards)
542 — Health Informatics (Friedman, Adler-Milstein)
550 — Seminar on Information Policy (Rosenberg)
589 — History of Computers and the Internet (Edwards)
621 — Information, Ethics, and Applied Policy (Rezmierski)
648/748 — Infoculture: Theory and Methods in the History and Sociology of Information Technology
654 — Political Issues in Health IT (Adler-Milstein)
657/757 — Information, Technology and Global Development
663 — Entrepreneurial Information Industry (Rosenberg)
680 — Computer-supported Cooperation (Ackerman)
719 — Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, & Medicine (grad core course; Carson)
722 — Theories and Models in Information Studies
746 — Information Economics (Chen)
755 — Unorthodox Research Methods (Sandvig)
School of Natural Resources and Environment +
490 — War and Environment (Tucker)
501.040 — Land Use and Global Change (Nassauer, Burton)
501.049 — Urban Stormawater: Science, design & management (Cardinale, Moore)
501.055 — Poverty, Environment and Inequality (Anthoff)
501.088 — Political Ecology, Environmental Security, and Conflict (Butt)
501.089 — Climate Change Economics (Hardin)
513 — Strategies for Sustainable Development (Hoffman)
527 — Energy Markets and Politics (Lyon)
555 — Climate and Development (Lemos)
557 — Industrial Ecology (Keoleian)
559 — International Environmental Law & Policy (DeYoung)
560— Behavior and Environment (DeYoung)
561 — Psychology of Environmental Stewardship (De Young)
562 — Environmental Policy and Politics (Yaffee)
565 — Principles of Sustainability (Princen)
566 — Public Opinion and Environment
574 — Sustainable Energy Systems (Keoleian)
587 — Landscape, Environment & Media (Diamond)
592 — Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts
593 — Environmental Justice: Research and Policy Development (Mohai)
596 — History of Environmental Law and Activism (Taylor)
664 — Food and Water Resource Questions (Princen)
669 — Environmental Economy (McRae, Kellogg)
677.012 —Climate Change Communication (Zint)
677.042 —Environmental Justice and Health (Mohai)
686 — Environmental Policy (Rabe)
School of Public Health +
506 — Introduction to International Health (Montro, Harlow)
509 — Evolution, Behavior & Public Health (Foxman)
584 — Hazardous Wastes: Regulation, Remediation, and Worker Protection (Batterman)
615 — Introduction to Public Health Policy (Meadows, Douglas)
618 — Tobacco From Seedling to Social Policy (Warner)
641 — Policies and Programs in Sexual and Reproductive Health
652 — Public Health Law (Jacobson)
668 — Health Informatics (Friedman)
695 — Public health Policy Issues in Women's Health (Lantz)
School of Public Policy +
510.003 — Political Environment of Policy Making (Parthasarathy)
519 — Sustainable Energy Systems (Keoleian)
650 — Introduction to Science & Technology Policy Analysis (Parthasarathy)
659 — Risk Management and Policy (Vinsel)
728 — Information Technology, Emerging Law, and Applied Policy (Rezmeirski)
754 — Science, Technology, and Public Policy (Duderstadt)
Sociology +
475 — Introduction to Medical Sociology (Anspach)
575 — Sociology of Health and Aging (Anspach)
Women's Studies +
432 — Gender, Health and Well-Being in Africa (Wyrod)
698.002 — Feminist Science Studies (van Anders)
801 — Feminism and Health (Boyd)


