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Science and Society

The Science and Society Program provides students with the opportunity to study the place of modern science and technology in human culture and society from an integrated, critical and interdisciplinary perspective. The program includes courses dealing with the history, philosophy and sociology of the mathematical, physical, biological and social sciences, as well as the social, cultural and intellectual contexts which both shaped and were shaped by thinking in those fields. Themes and areas of concentration include: 1) science, technology and social change; 2) history and philosophy of science, technology and the social sciences; 3) science, technology and humanistic thought; and 4) science, technology and the arts.

The Science and Society Program equips students with a broad interdisciplinary education which prepares them for all types of careers. Graduating students will have the same postgraduate opportunities as those possessing an Honours BA in arts fields - i.e. an opportunity to enter professional schools or graduate programs. Students who graduate from the Science and Society Program will be especially qualified to pursue graduate work in graduate programs in history and philosophy of science, as well as their congruent disciplines. Graduates of this program are well equipped for further studies in law, medicine, education, journalism and environmental policy.

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