Surveys research on quantification, the practice of using numerical data and calculation to analyze, order, and control. To fulfill the remaining subject requirement, students choose from among several departmental seminars designed to offer more in-depth study of particular topics. Investigates trends in youth political activism during specific historical periods, as well as what difference youth media production and technology use (e.g., radio, music, automobiles, ready-made clothing) made in determining the course of events. 0000010082 00000 n 0000001223 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)2-0-7 units. Assignments include creation of a board game for buying and selling real estate in Boston, a two-minute mini-documentary, and an article on a commodity and country. Limited to 40. Explores what is truly new about "new media" and reviews lessons from history for present-day activists based on patterns of past failure and success. Working Group II Contributions to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. 0000006343 00000 n Space Science Week March 28 and 29 Public sessions will discuss a wide array of issues and advances in the fields of space studies, physics, astronomy, aeronautics, and life sciences. The rationale for change Boundaries of science and technology are continuously changing. Prereq: Permission of advisor G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)0-1-0 units. Natural causes alone cannot explain all of these changes. Not offered regularly; consult department3-0-9 units. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Limited to 18. trailer <<66FC938451164C2899D441DAA9949DFD>]/Prev 46651/XRefStm 1054>> startxref 0 %%EOF 105 0 obj <>stream 0000007463 00000 n Cao, L., et al. Students are expected to develop professional mastery of a field of history or one of the social sciences. 0000007403 00000 n 0000006621 00000 n In May 2000, at the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) meeting in Tokyo, 63 academies of science from all parts of the world issued a statement on sustainability in which they noted that "global trends in climate change are growing concerns" and pledged themselves to work for sustainabilitymeeting current human needs while preserving the environment and natural resources needed by future . Ocean levels are rising at a rate of 3.3 millimeters per year. For students who wish to pursue special studies or projects with a member of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. 0000006048 00000 n Team-taught subject that centers Global South cosmologies and epistemologies marginalized by colonization, slavery, and racism across the world. A warming planet does not simply result in higher average daytime temperatures, the frequency and magnitude of extreme hot days will increase. 0000008963 00000 n Includes guest lecturers, on-campus field trips, and interactive exercises. Examples drawn from the technologies of war, transportation, communication, production, and reproduction. HASS-H. Includes in-class discussion of readings, short written and multimedia assignments, final project. Focus on the most important part of your thesis, your content, and let us take care of the design as a gratitude gift for having invested so many hours into your research. There is little regulatory control over how this waste is disposed, which can lead to significant impacts in environmentally sensitive areas. It has green colors, connected to the environment, and includes pedagogical illustrations related to ecology. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. gas. Also focuses on environmental and cultural impact assessment. (2014) Response of ocean acidification to a gradual increase and decrease of atmospheric CO2. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and more. Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Prereq: None U (Fall, Spring)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. However, this does not necessarily mean that more tornadoes will occur, especially in light of the fact that only about 20 percent of supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes. Mount St. Helens. HASS-H; CI-H. Discusses recent scientific and educational research that finds that the human body in motion is a medium for learning. 0000161443 00000 n Considers developments in the epidemiology, therapy, and politics of cancer. Adapted from image by W. Elder, National Park Service. 0000009178 00000 n According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2009 tied for second warmest year on record, just behind 2005. Climate change is a sign that humans have become a force with planet-altering power. 0000017121 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units, Same subject as 16.895[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered For students who wish to pursue special studies or projects at an advanced level with a faculty member of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. It has a guide index to help you focus your presentation. 0000014212 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units, Subject meets with 21H.205[J], STS.027[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) Examines science, technology and museums. Subject meets with STS.487Prereq: Permission of instructor U (Fall)3-0-9 units. Solar radiation passes through the atmosphere and most is absorbed by the Earths surface. Primary emphasis on textiles and metalworking, with particular attention to the role of the machine tool industry in the American manufacturing economy. Many of these innovations were pioneered for space travel and planetary exploration before anyone repurposed them for use on Earth. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)2-0-7 units. Weather is observed at a particular location on a time scale of hours or days, and exhibits a high degree of variability, whereas climate is the long-term average of short-term weather patterns, such as the annual average temperature or rainfall.3 Under a stable climate, there is an energy balance between incoming short wave solar radiation and outgoing long wave infrared radiation. Subject to departmental approval. HASS-SCredit cannot also be received for 21A.509[J], STS.474[J]. Ice ages are at least partially caused by changes in Earth's orbit and axis. Morgan Lawrence. Changing temperature patterns. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Science, 229(3): 857. Office of the Vice President for Communications, Climate Change: Science and Impacts Factsheet, Climate Change: Policy and Mitigation Factsheet , Climate Change: Science and Impacts Factsheet , Click here to download a printable version, Climate Change: Policy and Mitigation Factsheet, Office of the Vice President for Communications. 0000007671 00000 n Same subject as 11.155[J], IDS.057[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Spring) Identifies contemporary forms of resistance and imaginations of innovation that still endure and flourish in the global south, challenging perspectives from the global north. Same subject as 21A.501[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Enrollment limited by availability of suitable teaching assignments. Emphasis is on book-length texts, close reading, historical methods of analyzing technological change. climate change, periodic modification of Earth's climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic factors within the Earth system. HASS-H. Center for Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan. The volume of the ocean results in large thermal inertia that slows the response of climate change to forcings; energy balance changes result in delayed climate response with high momentum. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor; consult department for details. 0000013545 00000 n Not offered regularly; consult department3-0-9 units. Download:presentation (ppt) | video (high res.) Prepares students who wish to work or study in Africa and the Global South. Same subject as 21A.829[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. No. Not offered regularly; consult department3-3-6 units. Published biographies of scientists constitute the major reading, but attention is given to unpublished biographical sources as well. Discussion about the ways new kinds of online conversation are playing out in education, the workplace, and in families and what the changes in conversation mean for collaboration, innovation, and leadership. Examines science and technology innovation systems, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors. Interdisciplinary problem-solving at the intersection of humanities, science, engineering, and business. The Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) focuses on the ways in which scientific, technological, and social factors interact to shape modern life. Examines ideas, institutions, and the social settings of the sciences, with emphasis on how cultural contexts influence scientific concepts and practices. Same subject as 21A.859[J]Prereq: None G (Fall)3-0-9 units. Todays emissions will affect future generations; CO. Topics include: city planning, natural resource management, public education, economic development, quantification and modeling in the social and policy sciences, technology transfer, and political economies of expertise. A greenhouse captures heat from the Sun during the day. Readings include material on steam transportation, telegraphic communications, arms production, naval innovation, food processing, medicine, public health, management methods, and the mass production of everything from underwear to uniforms all essential ingredients of modernity. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. No country today is immune from the impacts of climate change. Subject (course) information includes any changes approved for the current academic year. Scientific evidence and consensus for global climate change (20-25 minute lecture and discussion): Ask students key questions and show the Unit 1 PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 25.6MB Feb6 17) slides as described in the Unit 1 Lecture Notes (Microsoft Word 154kB Feb6 17). Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA. 0000009238 00000 n Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. 0000010522 00000 n These briefings highlight the significant potential that research, development and deployment in 12 critical areas hold for . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2016) Climate Change Indicators in the U.S., 2016. W, S, G, N. Gas. 0000000016 00000 n Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. Uses films, novels, and artworks to think across disciplinary boundaries and the impact of science and technology on social worlds (as well as the social worlds of scientists and engineers). Annual 2021 arctic temperatures rose to 1.1C above the 1981-2010 average. We are entering into a period of intensive and very significant negotiations. Using this as a starting point, explores how researchers have described and re-calibrated relations among plants, humans, and environment, between life and non-life, action and being, subjectivity and autonomy in ways that radically altered ruling epistemologies in a range of disciplines. HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.500[J]. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)2-2-8 units. If GHG emissions were completely eliminated today, climate change impacts would still continue for centuries. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. Looks at how philosophers, farmers, foresters, eco-critics, geographers, botanists, and popular science writers adapted research questions and narratives to incorporate not only plant uses, but plant intelligence and sentience. Taken during first term of student's two-term commitment to thesis project. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. It also offers more specialized subjects in the history of science and technology and in social and cultural studies of science and technology. Same subject as 21H.984[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000038079 00000 n Minor in Science, Technology, and Society. STS contributes to undergraduate education at MIT in several ways. Learn more about how snow and ice patterns have changed over time. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) Includes regular readings and discussions about the evolution of museums of science and technology from (roughly) 1800 to the present. HASS-H. Enrollment limited. The Earth's Climate Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Surveys the history of modern finance, from medieval Italy to the Great Depression, while addressing credit, finance and state (and imperial) power, global financial interconnection, and financial crises. The Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change workshop was held in Washington, DC in March 2017. Same subject as 21W.820[J]Prereq: 21H.991 Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 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 . Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Examines the range of theories, from Mary Douglas in anthropology to D.W. Winnicott in psychoanalytic thinking, that underlies thing or object analysis. In collaboration, STS, the History Faculty, and the Anthropology Program offer a doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). Publication Date. hb```e`` "03 ?Pa/T(8S 6G b -`u>R}*1. HT]hUl2nnAwVuM5Mvv;3s1H_!ZB%n}[(c}pw03 Zi~a|mIA_:QM}tbN|EGg L~0!\KOq.{#8L+ErH|ns?za6l/JKTNR.. Pub. Surveys the effects of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century on the imagination of computational technologies in places such as South America, Africa, and Asia. It leads to one degree, either a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science or a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Engineering. Intensive reading and analysis of key works in the history and historiography of science. Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse. Same subject as 11.652[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Students meet and question technologists, activists, law enforcement agents, journalists, and legal experts. 0000008051 00000 n HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.505[J]. Positive forcings, such as GHGs, exert a warming influence on the Earth, while negative forcings, such as sulfate aerosols, exert a cooling influence. Archer, D., et al. 0000005239 00000 n Same subject as 4.626[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) 0000005644 00000 n 0000005385 00000 n 0000006561 00000 n "a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)2-0-7 units. HASS-H. A survey of America's transition from a rural, agrarian, and artisan society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. Views technology as part of the larger culture and reveals innovation as a process consisting of a range of possibilities that are chosen or rejected according to the social criteria of the time. A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda. The program brings together humanists, social scientists, engineers, and natural scientists, all committed 0000019937 00000 n Same subject as 21A.319[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Same subject as 16.445[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) By 2035, IPCC predicts that the temperature will rise between 0.3-0.7. This work has been largely completed and the path has been cleared for real adaptation-related action Located in a major university where most people study science and engineering, STS is dedicated to understanding the context of science and engineering. 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