Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Science, Technology and Environment

SOCI 4227  Science, Technology and Environment

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Students explore the changing relationship among science, technology and the environment and the consequences of the production, distribution and consumption of scientific and other forms of technology. Emphasis is also placed on such issues as genetic engineering, social media, environmental planning and disasters. Students appreciate how science, technology and the environment are intertwined, and the need to understand science as embedded in the social, cultural, political, racialized and gendered worlds of modernity.  This course may be credited towards Anthropology.