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What is Science and Technology Studies?

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Students and scholars in the field of science and technology studies want to know how scientific knowledge is produced. We believe that the idealized accounts of knowledge production entrenched in our scientific belief system are inadequate, given the complexity of the process they claim to describe.

STS scholars seek to understand how science operates by analyzing historical case studies, observing contemporary scientists at work, examining representations of scientific ideas in textbooks or journals, and studying the infrastructure of scientific institutions.

This interdisciplinary field brings together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, art historians, literary theorists, sociologists and practicing scientists and technologists.

NEW STS COURSE OFFERING FOR SPRING 2012!

"Cross-Knowledge: Contemporary Indigenous Knowledges (IKS) and the Sciences"

For scholars and practitioners in many fields of natural and social sciences, engineering and technology, and the humanities, an understanding of indigenous knowledges (IKS) and their interaction with other forms of knowledge is becoming imperative. Using theoretical frameworks from an interdisciplinary literature and practitioners' thinking, as well as cases, this seminar will be a rigorous critical introduction to IKS in contemporary life, probing a variety of locales and epistemic spaces where IKS and sciences coexist; learning about and interrogating ways to study indigenous knowledges; and thinking about practice where different knowledges and technologies "cross"

Prof. Geri Augusto
Monday 3:00-5:20 | Wilson Hall 106

STS TIMES

Congratulations to Committee on Science and Technology Studies (COSTS) faculty members and students who have recently received funding for STS-related initiatives.

For details, and more STS news, please check the latest issue of STS Times as well as the Archive.

CONGRATS!

The 2011 'Best Undergraduate Thesis in the field of Science and Technology Studies' award goes to:

Joy Liu for her thesis:
"And There The Heart Remained: A Critical History of Alachua General Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, 1945-2009"

Click here to read Joy's and other student theses.