In a wide array of courses, STSC majors explore the relationship between scientific knowledge, technological innovations, technological systems, and society past and present.
This program equips students with sophisticated critical faculties, multidisciplinary skills and wide knowledge that enables our graduates to go into business, law, government, journalism, research, and education. STSC provides a foundation for citizenship in a globalizing, diversifying world with rapid technological and scientific change. STSC majors are able to:

• Read scientific, technological and historical texts critically, assessing their social, cultural, and political origins and ramifications

• Identify the social determinants of science and technology in historical and contemporary contexts;

• Analyze the interplay of social and historical factors that have resulted in particular scientific and technological outcomes;

• Pursue research projects using published sources, technical and e