using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. What is Climate Change? Discussion about the ways new kinds of online conversation are playing out in education, the workplace, and in families and what the changes in conversation mean for collaboration, innovation, and leadership. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Limited to 12. Some mandatory field trips may occur during class time. 0000006766 00000 n To complicate things further, no one fully understands how . 0000008648 00000 n Prereq: None G (Fall, Spring)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. Team-taught subject that centers Global South cosmologies and epistemologies marginalized by colonization, slavery, and racism across the world. Surprise your teacher with this professional template. Examples drawn from the technologies of war, transportation, communication, production, and reproduction. Prereq: None G (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. Addresses subject matter in Science, Technology and Society that is not offered in the regular curriculum. 80 0 obj <> endobj xref Includes weekly reflection papers. Subject meets with STS.026Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Treats the emergence of industrial capitalism: the rise of the factory system; new forms of power, transport, and communication; the advent of the large industrial corporation; the social relations of production; and the hallmarks of science-based industry. Provides a global view of STS in an increasingly interconnected world. PDF Document. Goal is to equip students with skills for team-based trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural problem-solving. IPCC (2007) Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. 0000014212 00000 n For HASTS students participating in curriculum-related off-campus professional internship experiences. Multiple lines of evidence show changes in our weather, oceans, ecosystems, and more. The program brings together humanists, social scientists, engineers, and natural scientists, all committed Same subject as 4.626[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) Cruise ships are small floating cities which produce substantial amounts of waste. Culminates with the project's installation in the MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. Subjects. Includes regular readings and discussions about the evolution of museums of science and technology from (roughly) 1800 to the present. Each cohort tackles a different energy problem. Topics include computer crime; intellectual property restrictions on software; encryption, privacy, and national security; academic freedom and free speech. Yet the world loses 18.3 million acres of forest each year, or 27 soccer fields worth of trees every minute, according to the World . Explores the organization and role of energy and medical science R&D agencies, as well as gaps in those innovation systems. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Readings include material on steam transportation, telegraphic communications, arms production, naval innovation, food processing, medicine, public health, management methods, and the mass production of everything from underwear to uniforms all essential ingredients of modernity. Increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reduce the amount of energy the Earths surface radiates to space, thus warming the planet.4. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. Considers developments in the epidemiology, therapy, and politics of cancer. Adapted from USGCRP (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. The science-technology-society (STS) movement recognizes the need for education that prepares young people for the challenges of an ever-changing, interdependent world. Coal. Working like detectives, students draw on research methods from such fields as climate science, geology, molecular biology, proteomics, DNA testing, carbon dating and big data analysis to invent their own forensic historical research techniques. 0000030795 00000 n Same subject as 21A.501[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Within each of these categories, students can choose both introductory and more advanced subjects. 0000004345 00000 n The UNFCCC meeting in Bangkok earlier this month adopted a detailed programme of work. Science, 229(3): 857. U.S. Technological advances, particularly the discovery and use of fossil fuels, have contributed to climate change - but they have also allowed humanity to become aware of our impact on the planet and . Enrollment limited. Climate Central is presenting a new outreach and education resource for meteorologists, journalists, and othersa climate change presentation, Our Changing Climate.This 55-slide presentation is a guide through the basics of climate change, outlining its causes, impacts, and solutions. Limited to 15; no listeners. Substitution with a similar subject may be permitted by petition to the STS Undergraduate Officer. HASS-S. U.S. average annual precipitation has increased by 4% since 1901, but the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events has increased even more, a trend that is expected to continue. Discussion focuses primarily on the US; comparative perspectives from other countries incorporated into discussions and analysis. In pictures: the impact of the climate crisis and human activity on our oceans, Weird winter weather and reminders of a warming planet, Horn of Africa drought worse than 2011,and the other climate crisis stories you need to read this week, Cooling the planet: US researchers develop newclimate-friendly method of cooling, Electric refuse trucks could soon be coming to pick up your weekly trash. Limited to 15; no listeners. 0000004632 00000 n Emphasis on the transfer of technology and its many adaptations around the world. Whether students recognize it or not, Sensors and sensibility: All kinds of new technology are being used to monitor the natural world. See description under subject 21A.501[J]. But its not too late to save it, These 5 innovations will transform the lives of smallholder farmers. Electric Power Generation Fuels Students undertake special projects linked to the MIT Museum's re-location to a new building under construction in Kendall Square. Reading course in the history of aviation, focusing on science and technology and cultural and political context. HASS-E, Prereq: None U (Spring) Same subject as 11.461[J]Prereq: None G (Fall) CSA aims to simultaneously achieve three outcomes: 1. Explores how different societies make sense of and develop knowledges of the physical and animate world, and what it means to be human(e) within it. Drawing on this literature, Includes guest lecturers, on-campus field trips, and interactive exercises. Prereq: One CI-H/CI-HW subject and permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 0000004983 00000 n Enrollment limited. 0000005988 00000 n 0000005250 00000 n The warmest year on record since records began in 1880 was 2016, with 2020 ranking second. HASS-H. Exposes students to multidisciplinary studies in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), using four case studies to illustrate a broad range of approaches to basic principles of STS studies. Topics vary, but may include how the internet transforms our experience of time, space, privacy, and social engagement; how entertainment media affects attention, creativity, aesthetics and emotion; how innovations in wearable and textile technologies reshape notions of history and identity; how pharmaceuticals reshape identity, mood, pain, and pleasure. Focuses on construction of big projects like cities, hydroelectricity dams, roads, railway lines, ports and harbors, transport and communication, mines, industrial processing plant, and plantations. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. Enrollment limited. 0000005446 00000 n Examines the history of MIT, from its founding to the present, through the lens of the history of science and technology. 0000008810 00000 n The object of this program is to give those students the full technical and scientific education provided by a science or engineering major, balanced with intensive study of the historical and social contexts of science and technology. National Research Council (2011) Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Archer, D., et al. Explores the contributions of big capital, engineers, politicians, and ordinary people. Snow cover has noticeably decreased in the Northern Hemisphere. Make a poster regarding the causes and effects of climate change. Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Same subject as 17.395[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Same subject as 21A.829[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered HASS-H. A survey of America's transition from a rural, agrarian, and artisan society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. HASS-S. Explores emotional and intellectual impact of objects. MIT students are increasingly seeking to understand the social and historical contexts in which they will work and the social consequences of what they will do in their professional careers. See description under subject 21A.859[J]. We are entering into a period of intensive and very significant negotiations. Topics center on the psychology of online life, such as the way in which we both share and withhold information about the self. They also study new narrative forms to accompany novel research techniques. Readings drawn from STS, history, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. This design contains lots of . Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The goal of the minor program is to give students a broad social perspective on the fields of engineering and science: how they have evolved and how they fit into the wider context of society, culture, politics, and values. Taught in English. Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Spring) Includes a field trip. Prepares students who wish to work or study in Africa and the Global South. 0000002572 00000 n Climate change is affecting the American people in far-reaching ways. Originally published 04/23/2021. Work is done in consultation with the student's advisor, in accordance with the guidelines in the HASTS Student Handbook. Topics include industrialization of production and consumption, development of engineering professions, the emergence of management and its role in shaping technological forms, the technological construction of gender roles, and the relationship between humans and machines. Class meets for nine weeks; in the remaining weeks, students work on a final paper due at the end of the term. Practicum style course introduces students to ethnographic methods and writing in global health research. HASS-A. Uses the history of cancer to connect the history of biology and medicine to larger social and cultural developments, including those in bioethics, race, gender, activism, markets, and governance. 0000038079 00000 n Download:presentation (ppt) | video (high res.) With an increase in average global temperatures of 2. HASS-S; CI-H. The growing literature on cognition and "things" cuts across anthropology, history, social theory, literature, sociology, and psychology and is of great relevance to science students. The rapid climate change we are now seeing is caused by humans using oil, gas and . It leads to one degree, either a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Science or a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Engineering. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 unitsCredit cannot also be received for 21A.501[J], STS.074[J]. Organized around interviewing and observational assignments. Located in a major university where most people study science and engineering, STS is dedicated to understanding the context of science and engineering. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability . An examination of biography as a literary genre to be employed in the history of science. HASS-H. See description under subject WGS.226[J]. A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda. Same subject as 11.004[J] 0000006244 00000 n While mitigation actions are already being implemented, work on adaptation focused so far on establishing important adaptation principles. Takes a historically inflected approach to examine the social relations of science in the modern United States. It has a guide index to help you focus your presentation. Enrollment limited. 0000022858 00000 n Subject (course) information includes any changes approved for the current academic year. HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.504[J]. Introduces students to the core and canonical literature in this area while also providing the opportunity to read and discuss more recent works from multiple disciplines. 0000009962 00000 n trailer << /Size 300 /Info 195 0 R /Root 199 0 R /Prev 742261 /ID[<37fd5c4a789b11db9fd40003937c48ec><7d60e547145bcf158141e863ace7c85b>] >> startxref 0 %%EOF 199 0 obj << /ViewerPreferences << /Direction /L2R >> /Metadata 197 0 R /AcroForm 200 0 R /Pages 187 0 R /Type /Catalog /Outlines 202 0 R /PageMode /UseOutlines >> endobj 200 0 obj << /Fields [ ] /DA (/Helv 0 Tf 0 g ) /DR << /Font << /Helv 185 0 R /ZaDb 184 0 R >> /Encoding << /PDFDocEncoding 186 0 R >> >> >> endobj 298 0 obj << /S 1139 /O 1479 /V 1495 /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 299 0 R >> stream 0000011194 00000 n Limited to 18. Examines the rise and development of computing technologies in the global south. Prereq: None U (Fall, IAP, Spring, Summer)Units arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Begins with the premise that the most significant implications of these efforts extend far beyond the success or failure of individual cancer therapies. Americans have more influence in the development . Climate change affects ocean habitats by lowering oxygen, decreasing phytoplankton (little plants that serve as the base of marine food chains) and killing coral reefs. Students from any academic discipline are invited to apply to the doctoral program. For example, the increase in water vapor that occurs with warming further increases climate forcing and evaporation, as water vapor is a powerful GHG. See description under subject 21A.509[J]. Same subject as 12.386[J], 21H.185[J]Prereq: None U (Spring) Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: U (Fall) 0000002849 00000 n Addressing the effects of climate change is a top priority of the Energy Department. HASS-H. 0000160252 00000 n Not offered regularly; consult department3-0-9 units. Changing temperature patterns. Solving Climate Change. 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