HELP 2009-2010 University Catalog Science and Society Minor Print-Friendly Page

Banner Code: SCSO

Phone: 703-993-9621

Faculty

Bitler, Dunne (director), Fox, Jacobsen, Kinnaman, McAuley, Rutledge, Rowan, Smith, Thompson

Through the course work in this minor students explore the effect of science in their daily lives and develop an understanding of the multiple ways that science is integrated into different, nonscience disciplines. As a prerequisite to the minor, students should have completed their general education science requirement of 7 to 8 credits. In coordination with their minor advisor and through CHSS 200, students develop a core of five courses that revolves around a specific theme through which they connect science and society more closely. Possible themes include the environment, ethics, ethnography, faith, healing, justice and the law, media, and medicine, among others. The program of study must include one foundation course in the related field of study.

In addition to completing 15 credits of core courses, students start with CHSS 200 Introduction to Science and Society, which provides them with a broad overview of related topics and helps them to develop their individualized core of courses, and end with a capstone CHSS 400 Perspectives on Science and Society, in which they demonstrate what they have learned through their course of study.

This program of study is an interdisciplinary minor offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences .

For policies governing all minors, see the Academic Policies  chapter of this catalog.