The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program of the Claremont Colleges is an intercollegiate, interdisciplinary program through which students may pursue an integrated study of the history, philosophy, and social dimensions of science and technology. It is predicated on the idea that a full understanding of the character and cultural significance of science and technology requires an interdisciplinary approach involving training in science along with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

     Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps currently offer an STS concentration. Pomona offers an STS Minor. Pitzer also offers an STS Minor. Harvey Mudd students may concentrate through one of these colleges or may design an Independent Program of Studies in STS at Harvey Mudd. All concentrations include:

• two core courses in the history of science and technology
• one in the philosophy of science
• one in Political, Cultural, and Social Perspectives on Science and Technology
• three courses in a department related to the student's interest in Science, Technology, and Society
• a designated number of courses in science and mathematics, with students focusing their interest on a particular science, such as chemistry or psychology
• an integrative, interdisciplinary seminar in their senior year
• followed by a senior thesis

  STS Steering Committee members:

Harvey Mudd: Tad Beckman (Philosophy, Emeritus), Marianne de Laet (Anthropology and STS), Richard Olson (History)

Joint Sciences/Scripps: Andy Zanella (Chemistry)

Scripps: Andrew Aisenberg (History)

Claremont McKenna: Lisa Cody (History)

Pitzer: Judith Grabiner (Mathematics), Brian Keeley (Philosophy), Rudi Volti (Sociology, Emeritus), André Wakefield (History)

Pomona: Richard McKirahan (Classics and Philosophy), Jennifer Perry (Anthropology), David Tanenbaum (Physics), and Rick Worthington (Politics, on Sabbatical 2006-07)

For more information about STS: Contact Richard McKirahan, Coordinator: x72912, Office 211 on the second floor of Crookshank.  You may also contact Anne Tessier, STS Administrative Assistant: x72348, in Hahn 106.

This page was last updated: August 31, 2006