Science, Technology and Society

Students who complete a minor in Science, Technology, and Society will broaden their understanding of the interactions between science, technology, and society through an interdisciplinary approach. The minor in Science, Technology, and Society is suitable for students who are completing majors or honours degrees in Arts, Business, or Science.

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is a well-established, foundational degree and requires the requirements listed below alongside general graduation requirements.

Minor in Science, Technology, and Society

The minor in Science, Technology, and Society requires twenty-four (24) credit hours from approved Science, Technology, and Society courses with the following conditions:

• Maximum of 9 credit-hours at the 1000 level and minimum of 6 credit-hours at the 3000 level or above
• Minimum of 3 credit-hours from each of at least three of the following four categories:
  • English Language and Literature and/or The Study of Religion
  • History and/or Atlantic Canada Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Social Sciences (ANCS, ANTH, GEOG, PSYC, SOCI)
• Minimum overall GPA of 2.00 in courses approved for the Science, Technology, and Society minor

Possible courses for the Science, Technology, and Society minor:

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
ANCS 1004	Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory (formerly CLAS 1004)	3
ANCS 2100	Secrets of the Dead: Roman Archaeology (formerly CLAS 2100)	3
ANCS 3505	Museum Studies (formerly CLAS 3505)	3
ANTH 1271	Intro to Archaeology	3
ANTH 1280	Introduction to Biological Anthropology	3
ANTH 2271	Archaeology of the Franklin Expedition: Survey	3
ANTH 2273	Who Owns the Past?	3
ANTH 2282	Introducing Forensic Anthropology	3
ANTH 3271	Archaeology of the Franklin Expedition: Research	3
ANTH 3320	Anthropology in Hollywood	3
ANTH 3474	Human Variation	3
ANTH 3574	Public Archaeology	3
ANTH 3602	Coping with a Changing Climate	3
ANTH 4452	History of Anthropological Thought	3
ACST 4400	Health, Illness and Disease in Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 4501	Public History	6
ACST 4631	Environmental History of Atlantic Canada	3
ACST 4632	Atlantic Canada Ecology and Resources	3
ACST 4633	Reading the Landscapes of Atlantic Canada	3
ENGL 1220	Literature and Science	3
ENGL 1230	Literature and the Environment	3
ENGL 1270	Reading Monsters	3
ENGL 2301	Nineteenth Century Crime and Detective Fiction	3
ENGL 2317	Literary Legends: Faust	3
ENGL 2318	The Writer and Nature	3
ENGL 2356	The Development of Science Fiction to the New Wave	3
ENGL 3307	The Poetics of the Archive	3
ENGL 3343	Cultural Studies	3
ENGL 3383	Writing Prose-Non Fiction	3
ENGL 3518	Canadian Nature Writing	3
ENGL 4485	Victorian Literature – Advanced Study	3
GSCI 1300	Introduction to Science Communication	3
GSCI 3300	Advanced Science Communication	3
GEOG 1100	Global Perspectives on Land and Life (Group D)	3
GEOG 1200	People, Place and Environment (Group D)	3
GEOG 2306	Geospatial Concepts (Group C)	3
GEOG 2332	Global Cities (Group A)	3
GEOG 2341	Economic Geography (Group A)	3
GEOG 3304	Environmental Management (Group D)	3
GEOG 3380	Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (Group D)	3
HIST 1301	Introduction to the History of Science and Technology	3
HIST 2200	History of Media and Communications in Europe	3
HIST 2201	Environmental History of Europe, 1300 - 1900	3
HIST 3000	The Discipline of History	3
HIST 3201	The Trouble with Normal	3
HIST 3202	History of Medicine	3
HIST 3203	History of the Body, Health and Sexualities, 1400-1900	3
HIST 3410	The Scientific Revolution	3
HIST 3411	The Enlightenment	3
HIST 3505	Museum Studies	3
HIST 4501	Public History	6
PHIL 1255	Scientific Method	3
PHIL 2305	Environmental Ethics	3
PHIL 2318	Science and Society	3
PHIL 2319	The Meanings of Technology	3
PHIL 2358	Philosophy of Human Nature	3
PHIL 2368	Bioethics	3
PHIL 3000	Metaphysics	6
PHIL 3447	Philosophy & the Scientific Revolution	3
PHIL 3448	Philosophy of Science	3
PHIL 4514	Philosophy of Biology	3
PHIL 4515	Philosophy of Physics	3
PHYS 1370	Scientific Method	3
PSYC 1120	Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology (formerly PSYC 1220) (Group A)	3
PSYC 4040	History of Psychology (formerly PSYC 4421) (Group C)	3
RELS 2347	Ecology and Religion	3
RELS 3348	Ecological Crisis: Religious Perspectives	3
RELS 3349	Science and Religion	3
SOCI 1210	Introductory Sociology	3
SOCI 3020	Introduction to Science and Technology Studies	3
SOCI 3310	Society and the Environment	3
SOCI 3316	Sociology of Health and Illness	3
SOCI 4314	Sociology of Knowledge and Science	3