STS-Related Courses, Spring 2006

Courses related to STS are taught in dozens of departments. This list has been assembled from departmental schedules. Official course information, including accurate room and time information, can be found in the online schedule of classes. Course lists from other semesters are linked to the left.

Looking for courses in a particular department? Scroll down or use the menu to the right. We hope eventually to provide links to courses at other Northern California UC campuses. Until then please see the Northern California Network page.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics

• ARE 202. Issues and Concepts in Agricultural Economics. Perloff/Villas-Boas.

  Economics, institutions, and policies relating to agricultural and resource markets. The course makes extensive use of microeconomic modeling techniques including equilibrium concepts, comparative statics, and welfare economics using partial and general equilibrium models. The course concentrates on industrial organization: dominant firm and competitive fringe, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, vertical integration, price discrimination, and economics of information with applications to agriculture, food retailing, cooperatives, fishing, and energy.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

American Studies

• American Studies 39B. California Foodways: Business, Media & Culture. Moran.

  This course will discuss the politics and culture of American foodways, focusing on California and the Pacific West Region. We will begin with a history of California agribusiness and the role of food advertising and food tourism in the west. We will also discuss food in Hollywood films, various food movements, the rise of Berkeley's "gourmet ghetto," and popular representations of food, gender and race. (Freshman/Sophomore Seminar)

  Day/Time: M 3-6 pm

• American Studies 101.001. American Apocalypse: The Atomic Age and Nuclear Criticism. Palmer.

  American Apocalypse will introduce students to the ways in which historical and contemporary traditions have imagined and interrogated apokalypsis, the moment of destruction and revelation. Specifically, we will explore literature and cinema that imagine individual and social life amidst the fallout of near-terminal and apocalyptic events. This course considers biblical, post-nuclear, post-holocaust, and culture-destroying experiences and responses to them. With the Cold War (1945-1990) as the historical fulcrum of the course, we will examine nationalism, the nature of self, nostalgia, trauma, the practice of history, social reform, voyeurism and surveillance, and the tensions between old world order/new world order and chaos/regimentation. Our task in this class is to figure out how people use and respond to the rhetoric of the end of the world in the United States, particularly in light of the invention of the atomic and hydrogen bombs - the moment at which humans realized the ability to destroy the planet.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8-9:30 am

Anthropology

• Anthropology 139. Controlling Processes. Nader.

  This course will discuss key theoretical concepts related to power and control and examine indirect mechanisms and processes by which direct control becomes hidden, voluntary, and unconscious in industrialized societies. Readings will cover language, law, politics, religion, medicine, sex and gender.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

• Anthropology 250X. Modernity: Global Bio-Politics of Security. Rabinow.

  This seminar is for all of those people working on research (on whatever level) on issues of biopolitics, risk, security, preparedness and other related topics. We will run the seminar as a lab meeting. Participants will be expected to contribute work in progress and to attend regularly.

  Day/Time: W 3-6 pm

Business Administration

• Business 277.002. Media & Entertainment: Economics, Policy and Strategy. Spiller.

  The objective of the course is to provide an introduction to the economics of the Media & Entertainment industries. The course will examine the economic tools to understand some of the peculiarities of these businesses that impact on the nature of contracting, and the organization of firms and markets. Based on an understanding of the basic economic issues, the course will explore diverse strategic responses in the various segments of m&e. The class will be a mixture of lectures and outside speakers. Students will have to, apart from actively participate, prepare a case group "executive board" power point presentation (a case concerning a particular m&e issue) due in class before spring break, and write a case group strategy paper (due last day of class). I will be bringing executives representing an exciting mixture of established companies and radical new ventures, covering much of the spectrum in digital media.

  Day/Time: W 4 - 6pm

• Business 290T.001. Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology. Morrill/Adams.

  The Haas Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology class will provide students an introduction to the complexities and unique problems of entrepreneurship in the life sciences – and is designed for both entrepreneurs and students who may someday work in a small life science-based company. Students will be exposed to the topics most critical to successfully founding, financing and operating a life science company, and will be expected to perform many of the tasks which founders would normally undertake. We will use interaction with life-science entrepreneurs, case studies of recent companies, and hands-on work developing entrepreneurial endeavors. The first classes will provide an overview of the industry based on current trends and those of the past 20 year, and on opportunity recognition – which ideas make for viable companies – and how ‘good’ opportunities have changed over time. The middle section of the course will focus on functional and operational issues facing small life science companies: financing, working with venture capitalists, operational focus, patents and other intellectual property, business development and strategic partnering, marketing, etc. The final portion of the course will be oriented to the preparation and presentation of the final projects. Well in advance of the project’s final due date, teams will be asked to provide a written Executive Summary and one or more ‘elevator pitch’ oral presentations of their company. These graded exercises will help teams understand the strengths and weaknesses of their new venture, and prepare a better written plan. This class is appropriate for students who would like to start their own enterprise, and just as importantly, those who believe that they may work someday in a small life science-based company. In both cases, you will learn what drives the start up and on-going operations of these fascinating and exciting enterprises.

  Day/Time: Th 4-6 pm

• Business 290G.001. International Trade and Competition in High Technology. Wu.

  The rise and fall of the high-technology industries of the 1990s reflect broader changes in markets, production, organization, and business models, as well as the operation of government policies. These broader changes, which include but go well beyond the Internet revolution itself, suggest that the industrial economy is being fundamentally transformed by the diffusion of innovations in technology and business models across the industrial and industrializing economies. At the same time, these changes cannot be understood without a deeper examination of the factors that created competitive advantage at the national level in many of these industries during the previous three decades. This course explores the broad changes in "who is winning, who is losing, and why" in global markets for high-technology goods ranging from semiconductors to Internet services. This course seeks to make sense of the decline and prospective recovery of U.S. high-technology industries, the evolution of innovation and technology strategies and policies in Asia and Europe, the historic and current roles of governments in shaping markets for high-technology goods, and the impact on business strategies of recent developments in early-stage capital markets. Our general approach views technological innovation and competition as dynamic processes that reflect choices and policies made by firms and governments. Modern technologies develop in markets that are international in scope, often imperfectly competitive, and subject to influence by a variety of economic and political stakeholders. We will use an eclectic mix of practical, historical, and theoretical perspectives throughout the course in examining these issues. From time to time, we will be joined by venture capitalists, corporate executives, and technologists engaged in global high-technology markets for discussion of these issues.

  Day/Time: Th 2-4 pm

• Business 290T.005. Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management. Dornfeld.

  Sustainable Design, Manufacturing and Management as exercised by the enterprise is a poorly understood idea and one that is not intuitively connected to business value or engineering practice. This course will provide the basis for understanding (1) what comprises sustainable practices in for-profit enterprises, (2) how to practice and measure continuous improvement using sustainability thinking, techniques and tools for product and manufacturing process design, and (3) the techniques for and value of effective communication of sustainability performance to internal and external audiences.

  Day/Time: W 2-4 pm

• Business 290A.001. Introduction to Management of Technology. Chesbrough.

  This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the main topics encompassed by management of technology. While enrollment preference will be given to first year Haas students, second year students are welcome if space permits. We will begin with a technology perspective towards business. Then will we discuss Technology Strategy, how technology can help drive business growth and profitability. We will then look at how to organize for innovation, and we will conclude the course with student presentations of their course projects that apply these concepts to organizations that they have chosen. We will include cases on the managment of technology in services, which now comprise 80% of the US economy . Where available and appropriate, our cases and lectures will be supplemented by visitors from companies that we will be studying during the course.

  Day/Time: MW 8-9:30 am

• Business 292T.001. Environmental Management, Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility. Vogel.

  The objective of this class is to enable students to understand the increasingly complex relationships among environmental management, environmental policy and corporate social responsibility. It critically examines the opportunities and challenges both national and international firms face in integrating improved environmental performance into their business strategies, assesses the growth and impact of voluntary market-based systems of environmental regulation, and explores the role of innovative public polices in improving both government regulation and corporate environmental performance. Topics covered include trends in regulation in the EU and the US, risk management, green marketing, sustainable development, crisis management, global climate change, GMOs, corporate responsibility in developing countries, supply chain management, recycling, socially responsibility investment, NGOs and business ,and trade and environment.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-4 pm

• Business 295T.005. Technology Transfer & Commercialization. Charron.

  Novel technologies arise regularly in virtually every context and can often drive an entrepreneurial process. In many cases, the commercialization of a new technology is long and difficult road, with many difficult choices and potential failure points along the way. Entrepreneurs can find themselves in situations where they don't have technical or market depth of understanding. Venture capitalists find themselves waiting for technology to become real, or markets to develop. Inventors can find the process frustrating and fear of loss of control difficult to take. This course gives entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists a chance to explore all the aspects of how technologies make it to the marketplace. Students will receive a set of in-depth frameworks and tools for assessing and capitalizing on technology-based opportunities.

  Day/Time: W 4-6 pm

• Business 296.002. Health Technology Finance and Strategy. Robinson.

  This course examines corporate finance and strategy in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Topics will include venture capital, public equity markets, and retained earnings as sources of investment in research and development; the product cycle (research, regulatory approval of products, pricing, marketing); licensing and joint ventures; mergers and acquisitions. This course is designed to complement Health Technology Policy (Fall Semester), but one is not the prerequisite for the other.

  Day/Time: M 4-6 pm

• Business 296.003. Public Policy in the Business of Health Care. Raube.

  The purpose of this course is to provide students with; a framework for analyzing policy problems; working knowledge of the policy process; and an opportunity to discuss, debate, and analyze important policy topics facing the healthcare system. Examples of topics are drug pricing/importation, the uninsured, ethnic and racial disparities in health care, genetics and stem cell research.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-4 pm

Earth and Planetary Science

• EPS 39A. Geological Influences in California Society Today. Helgeson.

  Students have an opportunity to learn about the earth through direct field observation. The main part is a 4-day fieldtrip that introduces a variety of geological issues ranging from evolution of California, rock-forming processes, earthquakes, environmental concerns, mining and water management. The fieldtrip is preceded by a two introductory lectures. A fee is required to cover cost of transportation and food. Tent and sleeping bag needed. Freshmen only!

  Day/Time: MW 5-6 pm

Education

• Education 98/198. UC and the Bomb: a student-initiated course. .

  We will examine the UC's role in researching and developing WMDs(Nuclear Weapons) for the U.S. Gov't. Topics for discussion will include historical overview of the relationship between military, industry and academia; science, ethics and law; arguments for and against US reliance on nuclear weapons; geo-political power relations; social movements and nuclear resistance including environmental justice and human rights. Class will emphasize team building and democratic participation. sritchie_23@berkeley.edu

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Energy and Resources Group

• Energy and Resources 102. Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems. Harte.

  This course will examine human disruption of biogeochemical and hydrological cycles; causes and consequences of climate change and acid deposition; transport and health impacts of pollutants; loss of species; radioactivity in the environment; and epidemics.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• Energy and Resources 190-1. Religion, Science, and the Ecological Crisis in Postmodern America. Norgaard.

  Modern expectations for religion and science are not being fulfilled in America. Religion has emerged as a political force and an independent source of truth. Science -- on which modern reason, access to reality, and environmental agencies have rested -- no longer anchors and bounds public discourse and government decisions. Rather, science is being privatized, challenged by the complexity of social and ecological interactions, opposed by creationists, heralded as destiny by genetic engineers ready to "advance" the human species, accused of being socially constructed and value-laden by post-modernists, and selectively denigrated by corporate interests. Meanwhile, advances in modern science have made it clear that we are in an ecological crisis. Ecological degradation is hurting the poor, putting humanity on a technological treadmill, and reducing the prospects for all future generations. At the same time, in spite of stronger environmental scientific knowledge, environmental governance has been weakened under free-market fundamentalism. Academic institutions, certainly public universities, historically have contributed to the growth of secular understanding, leaving the interplay between truth and faith in the realm of the personal. Now, however, it is clear that new social contracts need to be worked out. This course surveys the history and diversity of religious and scientific cultures. It provides an opportunity to openly assess and collectively discuss the status and dynamics of religion, science, political and economic institutions, and the ecological crisis, separately and together. The course identifies the critical questions that need to be addressed to guide the future of life, of both humanity and nature. This course provides an opportunity to step back and look at the rapid changes underway. The changing role of religion is an important ingredient. It is appropriate for upper division and graduate students. The course will be a combination of lectures by Norgaard and local guests, open discussion of the readings, a term paper, and student presentations (optional for seniors, mandatory for graduate students). The course has a limit of 20 seniors and graduate students. There are seven required books (some of which are short and easy) and a reader.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5:00

• Energy and Resources 290. Social Studies of Technology and Technical Systems. Mason.

  Explores core literature in the field broadly known as science and technology studies (STS) drawing upon contributions from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and cultural studies. Critiques of these approaches will also be examined. Provides opportunity for students to actively relate the various theoretical and methodological approaches to their own work and intellectual interests, asking how selected STS approaches might enhance and/or be enhanced by their own academic perspectives and experiences.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8-9:30 am

• Energy and Resources 291.003. Modes of Interdisciplinarity. Norgaard.

  Readings and discussion of the nature, unity, and structure of science through history; the rise of disciplines; alternative definitions and significance of epistemic communities; inter-, trans-, and multi-disciplinarity; and the significance of all of this for working on complex social and environmental problems. Please come to the first organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 17, at 3:30pm. Elaboration: This is a new course in the design stages. We will start with introductions, issue identification, agenda setting, and discussions of process (2 sessions). Since the professor is in the process of writing a book that addresses various issues of interdisciplinarity, there will be times when he would like to make somewhat formal presentations and seek feedback from the class on how well he links and argues points. Much of the class, however, will be student-led short presentations and group discussions. All students will read broadly, though not all students will be reading the same material as intensely.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30 - 5 pm

Engineering

• Engineering 24.001. Time, Money, and Love in the Age of Technology. Azevedo.

  Many people in technological societies complain of "time poverty." What are the real relationships between time, money, and love in our lives? Where is love in a world dominated by the technological paradigm? Is there a balance to be found? Does technology make us happy? What is the good life? How can we cultivate peace of mind in a world of rapid change? These and other fundamental questions will be at the heart of a semester-long Socratic dialogue. (Freshman Seminar)

  Day/Time: M 1-2 pm

• Engineering 24.002. Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World (2006 -- The 150th Anniversary of Tesla's Birth). Vujic.

  Day/Time: M 11 am -12 pm

• Engineering 124. Ethics and the Impact of Technology on Society. Kastenberg.

  Because of the rapidly changing nature of technology, new and complex ethical issues are emerging which bring into question the ability of society to address, and hopefully resolve them. These new issues are arising in such areas as biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and nuclear technology. They range from protecting the health and welfare of the public and the environment, to patenting living organisms and labeling products containing genetically modified organisms, to biological, chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction, to concerns regarding the alteration of the ecology of life. This course focuses on the nature of these emerging technical issues, their ethical, legal and social ramifications, and what individuals and our society value in relation to these issues. We will examine what contemporary philosophy, religion and art, and contemporary views of natural and social science have to say about these issues, and about the relationship between individual and societal values regarding these issues. The goal of this course is to develop awareness in our students of these issues and a basis to pursue future study.

  Day/Time: MW 2-3 pm

English

• English R1B.010. Seeing the Future: Science Fiction and Society. Soare.

  Leonard Cohen sings: "I've seen the future, brother: it is murder." The science fiction writers and filmmakers we will consider in this course make an equally bold statement about the future of society in order to draw attention to the very real problems in the present. We will start with The Parable of the Sower, and then travel back in time to the beginnings of modern science fiction. As we read and view our way through some classics of the genre, we will take up many questions--questions about human relations, morality and technology, the power of the individual, etc. And we will consider why science fiction is such a powerful means of social critique. This is a writing intensive course: you will be writing several essays of various lengths (from 3 to 10 pages) and revising these essays. The focus will be on developing ease in writing longer argumentative essays, on improving your research skills, and on learning how to incorporate research into your writing. We will discuss writing and research strategies throughout the semester, and we will use peer review extensively. Note: There will be film screenings outside of class. Attending these screenings is not mandatory, but seeing the films is, so they will also be available at the Media Center for you to view on your own.

  Day/Time: MWF 3-4 pm

• English R1A.011. Second Nature: The Artificial Person in and as Representation. Ring.

  The texts that will be read in this course afford a long, if sometimes discontinuous, vista on the ancient fiction of the artificial person, created not by nature but of a second nature. From the armored, mechanized body of the proto-fascist Roman warrior in Shakespeare's Coriolanus to the virtual world of cyberpunk fiction, the recurring textual figure of the artificial person appears as both fantasy and nightmare, both fulfillment of the ageless dream of bodily transcendence and threat of shattering dependence. The artificial anthropoid--be it automaton, the robot, the android, or the intelligent machine--represents at once an imitation or simulacrum of a person and an alienated condition of humanity itself. We will thus ask not only how the machine comes to life but also how life becomes machine. We will also consider through these texts how binary terms like mind and body, masculine and feminine, biological and technological, knowledge and object, language and world, self and other, natural and artificial, and reason and desire are both raised and complicated by a secondary or counterfeit human.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5 pm

Environment Economics and Policy

• EEP 39C. Using Economics to Analyze and Debate Hot Topics. Perloff.

  Freshman/Sophmore Seminar

  Day/Time: W 2-4 pm

• EEP 101. Environmental Economics. Zilberman.

  Theories of externalities and public goods applied to pollution and environmental policy. Trade-off between production and environmental amenities. Assessing nonmarket value of environmental amenities. Remediation and clean-up policies. Environment and development. Biodiversity management. Also listed as Economics C125.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• EEP 115. Modeling and Management of Biological Resources. Getz.

  Models of population growth, chaos, life tables, and Leslie matrix theory. Harvesting and exploitation theory. Methods for analyzing population interactions, predation, competition. Fisheries, forest stands, and insect pest management. Genetic aspects of population management. Mathematical theory based on simple difference and ordinary differential equations. Use of simulation packages on microcomputers (previous experience with computers not required). Also listed as Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C104.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

• EEP 153. Population, Resources and the Environment. Trist/Marsh.

  This course offers a multidisciplinary view of the complex and contentious relationships between population, environmental change, and economic development. Two hundred years after Thomas Malthus wrote his famous treatise on population, the debates continue. Does population growth spell environmental disaster? Or do Western affluence and arrogance? What are the implications for economic growth (poverty/affluence), well-being, and social justice? How can we understand the causes and linkages? During the semester, we will examine different approaches to understanding interactions among population growth, environmental quality, and economic development, with attention to case studies and policy questions from around the world. Specific issues to be covered include the evolving demographic transition in different regions of the world, poverty and resource degradation, gender equality and development, food security, international migration, and population implications for water, land and biodiversity resources.

  Day/Time: MW 3-4 pm

• EEP 162. Economics of Water Resources. Hanemann.

  The course covers the economics of water resources, with special emphasis on areas such as California where water is a scarce resource. The aim is to teach both about economic tools – how economists go about analyzing key aspects of water policy – and also about the specifics of water in the US West – what has been learned by applying these tools to water issues in the region. The course assumes a knowledge of intermediate microeconomics, and some familiarity with linear regression. The course consists of two lectures plus one section per week.

  Day/Time: MW 11-12 pm

• EEP 180. Ecological Economics in Historical Context. Norgaard.

  Economists through history have explored economic and environmental interactions, physical limits to growth, what constitutes the good life, and how economic justice can be assured. Yet economists continue to use measures and models that simplify these issues and promote bad outcomes. Ecological economics responds to this tension between the desire for simplicity and the multiple perspectives needed to understand complexity in order to move toward sustainable, fulfilling, just economies. Also listed as Energy and Resources Group C180.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

Environmental Science, Policy & Management

• ESPM C10. Environmental Issues. Welter.

  Relationship between human society and the natural environment; case studies of ecosystem maintenance and disruption. Issues of economic development, population, energy, resources, technology, and alternative systems. Also listed as Letters and Science C30V.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• ESPM 50AC. Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management. Spreyer.

  An introduction to how culture affects the way we use and manage fire, wildland and urban forests, rangelands, parks and preserves, and croplands in America. The basic concepts and tools for evaluating the role of culture in resource use and management are introduced and used to examine the experience of American cultural groups in the development and management of western natural resources. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• ESPM 102D. Resource and Environmental Policy. Romm.

  The course develops capacities to analyze and affect the cause, dynamics, and consequences of resources and environmental policy formation and execution. It develops concepts of public policy and how cultural, legal, political, economic, and administrative processes form, execute, and modify it. It analyzes public policy formation and execution. It examines resource and environmental consequences of national macropolicy and international arrangements, and develops an ability to maintain a professional stance in severe contests of values. Oral presentation skills are developed.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11 am - 12:30 pm

• ESPM 162. Bioethics and Society. Winickoff.

  Developments in biotechnology and the life sciences have thrown into question existing policy approaches and instruments dealing with intellectual property, reproduction, health, informed consent and privacy. Rapid changes in science and technology appear to be reconstituting concepts of the self and its boundaries, kinship, ownership, and legal rights and obligations of people in relation to their governing institutions. Through reading primary materials and relevant secondary sources, this course seeks to identify and explore salient ethical, legal, and policy issues—and possible solutions—associated with these developments.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5 pm

• ESPM 165. International Rural Development Policy. Staff.

  Comparative analysis of policy systems governing natural resource development in the rural Third World. Emphasis on organization and function of agricultural and mineral development, with particular consideration of rural hunger, resource availability, technology, and patterns of international aid.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30 - 2 pm

• ESPM 166. Natural Resource Policy and Indigenous Peoples. Staff.

  Critical analysis of the historical transformation of indigenous peoples and their environments in North America and the Third World. The origins and specific patterns of socio-economic problems in these areas, existing and alternative future development policies and their effects.

  Day/Time: M 4-6 pm

• ESPM 168. Political Ecology. Peluso.

  Analysis of environmental problems in an international context with a focus on political and economic processes, resource access, and representations of nature. Discussion of the ways in which film, literature, and the news media reflect and influence environmental politics. Approaches to policy analysis arising from recent social theory.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30 -11 am

• ESPM 252. Seminar in Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis. Romm.

  The seminar addresses processes of policy formation and execution, methods of policy analysis, and applications of policy analysis to contemporary resource and environmental issues.

  Day/Time: Th 3-6 pm

• ESPM 290 (also 256). Science, Technology and the Politics of Nature. Winickoff.

  This graduate seminar is a reading, discussion, and research course that will introduce the methods and theories of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to explore the relationship of science, technology, law and politics in the domains of environment and health. The course will focus attention on the tension between technocracy and democracy in science policy, and the role of biotechnology in reshaping the natural and political order. The course will equip graduate students in the social sciences, law, life sciences and public policy with theoretical and practical tools for analyzing complex problems at the science, technology and society interface.

  Day/Time: W 2-5 pm

Geography

• Geography 40. Global Environmental Change. Chiang.

  An overview of the interactive processes that result in the mosaic of environments on the earth and the controls on the distribution of ecosystems. Environmental change is explored on a variety of time and spatial scales so as to enhance our capability to distinguish between natural and human-induced climatic, biotic, and physical changes.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• Geography C112. History of Development and Underdevelopment. Hart.

  Historical review of the development of world economic systems and the impact of these developments on less advanced countries. Course objective is to provide a background against which to understand and assess theoretical interpretations of development and underdevelopment. Also listed as Development Studies C100.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• Geography 130. Natural Resources and Population. Sayre.

  Are there enough energy, water, mineral, and land resources for the world's population? The role of natural resources in the world economy, national development and human welfare focusing on the Third World. The origins of scarcity and abundance, population growth, and migration, hunger and poverty.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

History

• History 30B. Science, Technology, and Society since Newton. Lesch.

  An introductory survey of the history of the sciences and the increasingly important place they have come to occupy in modern societies since 1700. We begin by looking at the legacy of the Scientific Revolution, the consolidation of classical physics and natural history in the Enlightenment, and popular science. We go on to consider Darwin and evolution, the organizational transformation of science in the nineteenth century, the emergence of chemistry as a science and source of new technologies, and the foundations of genetics around 1900. In the twentieth century we will emphasize the relations of science to technology, medicine, industry, government, and warfare. Course requirements include a discussion section, a midterm and a final examination, and one paper.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• History 39N. Science and Religion: Conflict and Accommodation through the Ages. Hahn.

  We will be exploring an old problem dating back to the ancient Greeks, which is still stirring passions today. This seminar is designed for students seriously considering a major in Religious Studies or History. It is part of the Food for Thought Seminar Series. Food for Thought dinner meeting dates and times will be discussed in class.

  Day/Time: M 2-4 pm

• History 100.007. The Chinese Body: Medicine and Health, Sex and Gender. Nylan.

  This course brings a thematic approach to the critical analysis of the "Chinese body", as constructed before 1911, culminating with focus in the final week of classes on comparison and contrast of pre-modern and modern understandings. As the course title indicates, the course is designed to help students gain a clearer picture of how the body was viewed from four main perspectives, those of (1) gender; (2) sexual activity; (3) health; and (4) medicine. Contrary to the stereotypes of "unchanging China," notions of the body and the person changed dramatically over the course of two thousand years from the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) to the Qing (1644-1911), and contemporary qi gong ("breath work") like contemporary fengshui has little in common with older practices. The course begins with the conception of health in pre-modern China, and the important distinction (generally ignored in modern American medicine) between "healing" and "curing." Students will be introduced to the general outline of Yin/yang, Five Phases theory, to standard definitions of "Nature," and to the major microcosm-macrocosm analogies. Readings drawn from classic medical texts, classic novels and letters, and from recently excavated legal texts will demonstrate that diet, acupuncture, moxibustion, and meditation, rather than surgery, became the main treatments because of these holistic views of the body. Since a great many of the standard metaphors for good or ill health in pre-modern China refer to sexuality, this course consequently considers "ideal sexuality" (and deviations therefrom). It also considers the precise conditions under which "anti-female rhetoric" was invoked and the practical effects -- legal, financial, and imaginative -- of that rhetoric on the lives of ordinary and elite women and their male counterparts, including the limitations of that rhetoric.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• History 101.005. Scientific Change: Motives and Conflicts Through the Ages. Hahn.

  For the research paper, students will be asked to select a significant turning point in the history of science and technology in the Western world in any time period for which primary source material exists. They will be encouraged to explore the different factors -technical and cultural- that stimulated change, and the controversies they engendered. Students should consult with the instructor before signing up if they have unanswered questions.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

• History 181A. Astronomy, Astrology, and Cartography in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Heilbron.

  The enduring medieval classics, Dante’s Divina Comedia and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, are full of astronomy. Chaucer wrote a brief treatise on the most elaborate astronomical instrument of his day, the astrolabe, for the instruction of his twelve-year old son. Similar demands on readers’ knowledge were, and are, made by Camões Os lusídas and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. We begin with some passages from these works and unravel their meaning with the help of world systems taught in philosophy (“physics”) and astronomy (“mathematics”) courses in medieval and early modern universities. Physics and astronomy played the leading roles in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. Our course outlines the revolution and its principal consequences through the Enlightenment. To facilitate understanding of the astronomical concepts involved, each student will make an astrolabe of the sort that Chaucer drew for his son. Full instructions for making and using the instrument will be provided. There will be a problem set or two, a midterm, and a final. The lectures will be illustrated.

  Day/Time: MWF 10-11 am

• UCSF 216. Psychiatry in the United States. Suran.

  During UCSF's Spring 2006 Quarter (which runs from March 27 to June 11), we will be offering a ten-week, graduate-level reading seminar on the history of psychiatry in the United States (through the Department of Anthropology, History & Social Medicine at UCSF). The seminar will survey the development of U.S. psychiatry from the Victorian-era asylums to modern neuroscience. Topics include psychiatry's relation to neurology, psychology, and psychoanalysis; the central role of Jewish psychiatrists and psychoanalysts; therapeutic innovations (e.g., lobotomy, antidepressants) and the nature of medical progress; psychiatrists as public moralists and agents of social change; and studies of everything from human love to encounters with aliens. Readings include Erik Erikson, Erving Goffman, Charles Rosenberg, Carol Gilligan, V.S. Ramachandran, Tanya Luhrmann, Nancy Tomes, Michel Foucault, Gerald Grob, Mark Micale, Jack Pressman, David Healy, John Mack, and others. NOTE: Ordinarily, we will meet Friday 10-12 at 3333 California St., Suite 485, the UCSF Laurel Heights campus. Our first scheduled meeting conflicts with the Cesar Chavez campus holiday. We will therefore meet for the first time on Thursday, March 30, 4-6pm. Please read T.M. Luhrmann's Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (Vintage, 2001) before that first meeting on March 30. NOTE ALSO: To receive UCB credit for this UCSF course, UCB students would arrange a History 299 "directed reading" course under the official supervision of a UCB faculty member. Contact Justin Suran at suranj@dahsm.ucsf.edu for details.

  Day/Time: F 10-12pm

• History 275S. Introduction to the History of Science. Lesch.

  An introduction to issues and problems in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science based on reading, discussion, and written analysis of selected secondary literature. General themes include the organization of science in different national settings, the nature of the scientific community, patterns of scientific change, science and gender, and the relations of science to technology, industry, medicine, government, and warfare. Requirements include several short papers.

  Day/Time: W 2:00-4:00 pm

• History 285S.001. The Scientific Revolution. Heilbron.

  The problematic Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century enjoys the richest historiography of any period in the history of science. The purpose of the course is to master this historiography, compare it with primary sources, examine the propriety of metaphorical labels for historical periods (Dark Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment...), and estimate the utility and vitality of "The Scientific Revolution" as an analytical concept."

  Day/Time: W 12-2 pm

Integrative Biology

• Integrative Biology 119P. Evaluating Scientific Evidence in Medicine. Caldwell.

  A course in critical analysis of medical reports and studies using recent controversial topics in medicine. Course will focus on information gathering, hypothesis testing, evaluating study design, methodological problems, mechanisms of bias, interpretation of results, statistics, and attribution of causation.

  Day/Time: MW 9-10 am

• Integrative Biology 140. Biology and Sociobiology of Human Reproduction. Staff.

  Evaluation of human reproduction, social problems and demographics, anatomy and physiology of reproductive organs, endocrinology of the menstrual cycle; puberty, psycho-physiology of copulation and orgasm; fertilization and implantation infertility and sexual dysfunction; conception and contraception; pregnancy and abortion; birth and lactation; sexual differentiation of brain and reproductive organs; homosexuality and transexualism.

  Day/Time: TuTh 6:30-8 pm

• Integrative Biology 152. Marine Pollution. Weston.

  The environmental fate and effects of human wastes, particularly toxic chemicals, in estuarine and coastal systems. Course will review waste types, principal sources, their impacts on marine communities, monitoring approaches, and regulatory issues.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major

• ISF 100D. Introduction to Technology, Society, and Culture. Holub.

  Technological revolutions and transnational social movements. This course is an introduction to the impacts of technological revolutions on a variety of global societies and cultures. First, it focuses on the technological elements of the industrial revolutions in the 19th century of Europe and North America and on the communication revolutions of the early 20th century (telephony, automobility, radio, and visual media). Second, the course looks at the evolution of the computer and the development of the internet. Third, it examines the impact of the internet on contemporary social movements in a variety of global regions. Among these regions are South Africa, Vietnam, Iran, the United States, and Brazil. The purpose of the course is fourfold: (1) to place the emergence of the information society into a historical context and in a geopolitical context as well. (2) students will gain an understanding of the decision making processes and choices that command the development and application of technology. (3) students will be able to raise substantive questions about technological knowledge gaps and make ups in knowledge gaps. (4) students will be able to test a variety of hypotheses about the promises, constraints, and opportunities of the information age. Manuel Castells's theory of the information age provides a theoretical framework for this course.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8 - 9:30 am

Law

• Law 226.4. Telecommunications. Shelanski.

  This course will address several important topics in current U.S. telecommunications law and policy: regulation of the internet, broadband access, media ownership, competition among new communications technologies, mergers, and social policies to ensure access to, and distribution of, telecommunications services. The course will explore each of these topics individually but also in relationship to each other. Students will be asked to write a paper in the form of a comment on a pending regulatory or legislative proceeding related to one of the course topics. (This course does not have a final examination.)

  Day/Time: M 8:25 - 11:05 am

• Law 270.6. Energy Regulation and the Environment. Staff.

  Energy production and use drive the world’s economies and offer hope for growth and prosperity. Yet, the extraction and use of fuels and the development of energy facilities are among the greatest threats to the global environment. This course introduces students to the legal, economic, and structural issues that both shape our energy practices and provide opportunities to overcome these critical problems. The course focuses primarily on the regulation and design of electricity systems and markets since so many energy choices–the use of oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, the green alternatives such as solar, wind, and energy conservation or “demand side management”– relate to the way we generate or deliver electricity, or avoid the need to do so. Next to the use of petroleum for transportation, electric generation is the greatest contributor to air pollution and the greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, as urban and suburban development spread across the land, the maintenance and expansion of the electric transmission grid provide increasingly challenging land use problems. The course examines both the traditional monopoly model of regulation and evolving competitive alternatives. The course exposes students to energy resource planning, pollution management, rate design, green markets, energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy portfolios, climate change and carbon management. The course provides an introduction to administrative law and to practice issues in the field. The course is for three units.

  Day/Time: TuTh 5:20 - 6:35 pm

• Law 270.5. Ocean Law in the Nuclear Age. Caron/Scheiber.

  This course will be organized to prepare students for informed participation in an international conference February 10-11 (Friday and Saturday), 9AM- 5PM both days, on the subject of the oceans in the nuclear age. On those two days, attendance at all sessions is required of the students. The conference will feature lectures and panels involving jurists and American and foreign scholars from law, political science, and the physical sciences for interdisciplinary discussion of key topics in the subject field. Among the topics to be considered will be nuclear transport, seabed pollution and dumping, the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, security issues, and risk management and ocean law. There will be one preparatory session with both professors, to discuss an assignment of general background readings, and a follow-up session to discuss the conference presentations. A short paper on one of the conference themes, due at the end of the semester, is required.

  Day/Time:

• Law 271.71. International Environmental Law. Popovic.

  This course is a seminar on the role of law in the management of international environmental problems. The course will begin with a brief introduction to public international law as it relates to the environment and a discussion of what “international environmental law” means in contemporary society. Participants in the course will study a range of environmental issues, legal sources, and institutions. The course will include consideration of international environmental treaties, the role of the International Court of Justice in identifying and establishing international environmental law, international regulation of private conduct that affects the environment, trade and the environment, international financial institutions, human rights and the environment, and the relationship between domestic and international law. Students will examine procedural concerns, such as access to information, environmental impact assessment, and public participation, as well as substantive concerns, such as the regulation of human conduct and the protection of particular environmental resources. Grades will be based on discussion and two short papers. Prior or concurrent enrollment in International Law is recommended.

  Day/Time: W 5:20 - 7:10 pm

• Law 271.3. Biodiversity Policy. Doremus.

  Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ESPM 60, Political Science 1 or consent of instructor. Explores the goals of biodiversity conservation policy, tensions between those goals and other societal goals, the difficulty of identifying biological entities to target for conservation purposes, the range of public approaches to biodiversity conservation in the United States, and the role of private conservation efforts. Considers the roles of different levels and branches of government, experts both inside and outside of government, non-governmental organizations, the general public, and the market in biodiversity conservation. We will use case studies as well as more traditional readings to approach these issues.

  Day/Time: MW 12 - 1:30 pm

• Law 273.71. California Environmental Issues. Frank.

  Mr. Frank will moderate six panel discussions by outside speakers on key California environmental law and policy issues. One of the sessions will focus on the law of global warming/climate control. Possible other topics may include environmental federalism (i.e., the respective California and federal roles in environmental regulation, the clash between environmental regulation and privateproperty rights, and coastal resource regulation and preservation in California. The guest speakers will include academics, practicing environmental attorneys, and non-legal experts (e.g., scientists and economists.)

  Day/Time: W 3:20 - 6:30 pm

• Law 275.3. Introduction to Intellectual Property. Menell.

  This course is intended both for students who are interested in a general overview of intellectual property and as a gateway to Boalt's Law and Technology program. The course begins with an analysis of the competing policies underlying the intellectual property laws. It covers patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, as well as state law forms of protection. No technical background is expected or required. The textbook for the course will be Merges, Menell & Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (3rd ed. Aspen 2003).

  Day/Time: MTuW 8:35 - 9:50 am

• Law 275.3 sec 4. Introduction to Intellectual Property. Schwartz.

  This course is intended both for students who are interested in a general overview of intellectual property and as a gateway to Boalt's Law and Technology program. The course begins with an analysis of the competing policies underlying the intellectual property laws. It covers patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, as well as state law forms of protection. No technical background is expected or required. The textbook for the course will be Merges, Menell & Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (3rd ed. Aspen 2003).

  Day/Time: TWTh 10 - 11:05 am

• Law 275.8. Historical Perspectives on IP. Menges.

  This is a paper-writing seminar course. It begins with a review of some basic and important texts and articles outlining major issues in the history of intellectual property law, drawn from Robert P. Merges and Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property (Foundation Press, 2004). We start with John Locke’s “labor theory” of property, continue on to Thomas Jefferson’s formative ideas on the importance of the public domain, and consider important chapters in the history of patent, copyright and trademark law from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The goal of the seminar is to thoroughly engage these materials, and then apply them to an important issue of interest to the student – including issues “of the moment: digital rights management, the revolution in patentable subject matter, the expansion of trademark law. The underlying premise is that this moment of rapid flux, when technological and economic forces impact IP law incessantly, is a perfect time to revisit the field’s history and basic principles.

  Day/Time: Tu 9 - 10:50 am

• Law 276.1. Cyberlaw. Schultz.

  The emergence of global digital networks, such as the Internet, and digital technologies that enhance human abilities to access, store, manipulate, and transmit vast amounts of information has brought with it a host of new legal issues that lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century will need to understand and address. Although many are trying to "map" existing legal concepts onto problems arising in cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly evident that this strategy sometimes doesn't work. In some cases, it is necessary to go back to first principles to understand how to accomplish the purposes of existing law in digital networked environments. The course will explore specific problems in applying law to cyberspace in areas such as intellectual property, privacy, content control, and the bounds of jurisdiction. Students with familiarity with the Internet and its resources or with backgrounds in some of the substantive fields explored in this course are especially welcome, but there are no formal prerequisites. Grades for the course will be based on a take-home exam.

  Day/Time: Tu 3:20 - 6 pm

• Law 276.65. Law, Science and Biotechnology. Ossorio.

  This course will survey law, policy and ethics relating to several new and emerging biotechnologies including: stem cells, gene therapy, genetic testing, reproductive technologies and genetically modified foods. An overarching theme of the course is a comparison of the manner in which various institutions—agencies, courts, legislatures, markets—take account of risk and uncertainty relating to biotechnologies. The course is divided into five major topic areas. The first is topic is research with human subjects. We will examine the research regulation and recent litigation arising from biomedical research, and we will follow the law’s evolution in response to new technologies and to new institutional arrangements associated with large-scale bioscience. We will also identify some difficulties of litigating cases arising out of research, and discuss proposed solutions. This emphasis on research reflects the fact that the legal system has engaged with many new and emerging biotechnologies only in the research context; these technologies have not yet been incorporated into marketable products. The second major topic covered in the course is assisted reproduction. Many new genetic technologies were first applied in the reproductive medicine context. This portion of the course will focus particularly on legal and philosophical problems arising out of prenatal and preconception genetic testing. The third major topic will be the intersection of property, privacy and human biological materials such as DNA, cells, and organs. We examine privacy and property together because these concepts and areas of the law are often intertwined in people’s views about the use and disposition of human biological materials. For instance, many people believe that they should have property interests in their extracorporeal tissues because those tissues contain private, personal genetic information about them. The forth major topic is university-industry relations. Here we look at the law and policies controlling the transfer of biotechnology inventions and materials from universities and publicly-funded research laboratories to private firms. We also examine contract and conflict of interest issues arising from private funding of research in public universities. And finally, we look at the agency oversight of publicly funded research—even when human beings are not the subjects of research, there is some oversight of fraud, plagiarism and other research misconduct. The final topic of the course is agricultural biotechnology, and in particular, genetically modified food. With this topic we return to central questions about which methods and which institutions are best suited to weigh, value and distribute risk and uncertainty. You do not need a scientific background to understand the material or to excel in this course.

  Day/Time: MW 1:55 - 3:10 pm

• Law 276.63. Biotechnology Patent Law Seminar. Ossorio.

  Day/Time: Th 9 - 10:50 am

• Law 276.4. Computer Law. Determann.

  This course explores the law relating to the protection of software, databases and computers. The primary focus will be on three areas of law: intellectual property, contracts and licensing, and antitrust law. We will also cover international and commercial issues as well as current hot topics, such as Open Source Licensing and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Prior courses in intellectual property topics are recommended but not required; there will be no or minimal overlap with other courses. No technical background is required; a hands-on introduction to information technology will be provided as part of the course. The course will have a final exam. Students can satisfy Writing Requirement.

  Day/Time: Th 9 - 10:50 am

• Law 285.9. Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Seminar. Mulligan.

  Recommended: Prior or concurrent enrollment in Cyberlaw or Computer law. The Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic is one of the first clinical education programs designed to involve students in advancing the public interest in the Internet and other emerging technologies. By representing institutional and individual clients in legislative, regulatory, litigation and technical standard-setting proceedings, clinic students will develop the skills necessary to effectively influence the development of law and technology in a fashion that supports important democratic values. Clinic students work on issues ranging from the protection of individual privacy, freedom of speech and association, consumer protection, and copyright. The accompanying seminar provides a forum for students to learn and discuss underlying legal principles, explore the practice and theory of public interest representation, gain an understanding of the workings of various legal and technical forums and, also, “workshop” their cases. Enrollment in the seminar is limited to participants in the Samuelson clinic. Please obtain the application for the clinic (available in Room 396 or the Registrar’s Office) and submit it to Jean Hayes in Room 396. All students must have permission of the instructor to enroll.

  Day/Time: Tu 2:20 - 4:10 pm

Legal Studies

• Legal Studies 168. Sex, Reproduction and the Law. Hollinger.

  Why and how does the State regulate sex, sexuality, and reproductive behavior? What are the personal and societal consequences of our technological capacity to separate sex from reproduction? A number of legal and social issues will be analyzed, including sterilization, access to contraception and abortion, adolescent sexuality and statutory rape, the legal status of fetuses and frozen embryos, and the parentage of children conceived through assisted reproduction.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30pm

School of Information

• SIMS 146. Foundations of New Media. Staff.

  Introduction to interdisciplinary study and design of New Media. Survey of theoretical and practical foundations of New Media including theory and history; analysis and reception; computational foundations; social implications; interaction, visual, physical, and narrative design. Instruction combines lectures and project-based learning using case studies from everyday technology (e.g., telephone, camera, web).

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• SIMS 190. ICT for Development: Context, Strategies and Impacts. Saxenian/Pal.

  What role can information and communications technologies play in transforming lives in developing economies? Some view ICT as a new tool for poverty alleviation while others see technology draining resources from more pressing social needs. Nevertheless a proliferation of initiatives from governments, non-profit and multilateral agencies, and corporations seek to develop and apply technology to meet the challenges facing poor economies. The course positions these efforts in the context of development theory and surveys both the strategies and methods of assessing contemporary projects that develop new technologies such as wireless communications or low-cost computing or applying ICT to areas such as healthcare, e-government, microfinance, and literacy. The class will provide a conceptual framework as well as analytical tools for engineers developing technology for use in underserved regions, social scientists studying the impacts of these projects, and business students assessing the sustainability of development-oriented technology enterprises.

  Day/Time: M 3:30-5:30 pm

• SIMS 203. Social and Organizational Issues of Information. Cheshire.

  The relationship between information and information systems, technology, practices, and artifacts on how people organize their work, interact, and understand experience. Individual, group, organizational, and societal issues in information production and use, information systems design and management, and information and communication technologies. Social science research methods for understanding information issues.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2 pm

• SIMS 205. Information Law and Policy. Downes.

  Three hours of lecture per week for seven and one-half weeks. Law is one of a number of policies that mediates the tension between free flow and restrictions on the flow of information. This course introduces students to copyright and other forms of legal protection for databases, licensing of information, consumer protection, liability for insecure systems and defective information, privacy, and national and international information policy. (Formerly half of 204. Students will receive no credit for 205 after taking 204.)

  Day/Time: TuTh 10:30-12 pm

• SIMS 221. Information Policy. Braunstein.

  This course will introduce students to policy issues and analytical methods in the areas of information systems, communications, computing, and media. Economic, political, social, and legal perspectives will be introduced. The specific topics will vary from year to year and will reflect the current interests of the students and the instructor, but the following list should suggest the range of areas likely to be covered. POSSIBLE OUTLINE OF TOPICS: 1. Background on Information Policy--Domestic, 2. Background on Information Policy--International, 3. Infrastructure Issues and Technological Change: The Case of NREN, the Internet, NGI, etc., 4. Ownership of Information: Property Rights, 5. Intellectual Freedom, 6. Access to Information, 7. Public vs. Private Provision of Information, 8. User Fees for Government-Provided Information, 9. Information Markets, 10. Privacy, 11. Mass Media & Common Carriers, 12. National Security, 13. Standards, Elements of Industrial Policy, 14. Trans-border data flows, 15. Consumer information, 16. Medical and health information

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• SIMS 235. Legal Issues in Information Management. Schultz.

  Three hours of lecture per week. The emergence of global digital networks, such as the Internet, and digital technologies that enhance human abilities to access, store, manipulate, and transmit vast amounts of information has brought with it a host of new legal issues that lawyers preparing to practice in the 21st century will need to understand and address. Although many are trying to "map" existing legal concepts onto problems arising in cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly evident that this strategy sometimes doesn't work. In some cases, it is necessary to go back to first principles to understand how to accomplish the purposes of existing law in digital networked environments. The course will explore specific problems in applying law to cyberspace in areas such as intellectual property, privacy, content control, and the bounds of jurisdiction. Students with familiarity with the Internet and its resources or with backgrounds in some of the substantive fields explored in this course are especially welcome, but there are no formal prerequisites. Grades for the course will be based either on a series of short papers or on a supervised term paper.

  Day/Time: Tu 3:30-6:30 pm

Molecular Cell Biology

• MCB 90A. Evolution - Creatures, not Creation. Thorner.

  The advent of molecular biology, recombinant DNA methodology, and the capacity to obtain the complete nucleotide sequence of any genome (from a bacterium to a human) has confirmed the close relationships among all organisms at the genetic and biochemical level, and has confirmed the major tenets of the theory of evolution that were based on the fossil record and other more circumstantial and empirical evidence based on field observations of extant organisms. This course will discuss the unique physical and chemical properties of both water and carbon, and other molecules and elements on which the life forms on our planet are based; the principles of the scientific method and its application to our observations of the natural world; how the term "theory" is applied in science; and, the forces that influence organismal survival, adaptation and speciation. Readings will range from Charles Darwin to Steven Jay Gould to James D. Watson. This seminar is part of the Food-for-Thought Seminar Series.

  Day/Time: F 12-1 pm

Philosophy

• Philosophy 128. Philosophy of Science. Skokowski.

  A survey of main topics in the logic of science and of other issues coming under the general heading of philosophy of science.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

• Philosophy 132. Philosophy of Mind. Noe.

  Mind and matter; other minds; the concept "person."

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• Philosophy 146. Philosophy of Mathematics. Mancosu.

  This is an introduction to the classics of philosophy of mathematics with emphasis on the debates on the foundations of mathematics. Topics to be covered: infinitist theorems in seventeenth century mathematics; the foundations of the Leibnizian differential calculus and Berkeley's 'Analyst'; Kant on pure intuition in arithmetic and geometry; the arithmetization of analysis (Bolzano, Dedekind); Frege's logicism; the emergence of Cantorian set theory; Zermelo's axiomatization of set theory; Hilbert's program; Russell's logicism; Brouwer's intuitionism; Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11 am

• Philosophy 170. Decartes. Hoffman.

  This course will focus on a close reading of Descartes' most important work: his Meditations. We will, however, begin with readings from the earlier Discourse and occasionally draw upon his other works and extensive correspondence. Topics will include skepticism and our knowledge of our self, God and the world, the mind and its relation to the body, the roles of the senses and the intellect, and the relation between Descartes' scientific and philosophical projects. We will also take up some of the more specific issues for which Descartes' discussion was to frame later philosophical debates, e.g., perception and the theory of ideas, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, and the nature of space. Depending upon time and interest, we may close by considering interpretive debates surrounding Descartes among his successor "Cartesians," especially the vitriolic exchange between Malebranche and Arnauld.

  Day/Time: MWF 10-11 am

• Philosophy 290.004. Predicativity. Mancosu.

  The foundational program known as "predicativity" took its start from the debate between Poincare and Russell on the nature of logic and received already in 1918 an impressive formulation and systematization in Weyl's The Continuum. By the 1950s the logical tools required for a logical analysis of the notion had been developed. In the last two decades reflection on predicativity has prospered not only from the foundational point of view but also from the philosophical point of view. Recent work by, among others, Parsons, Burgess, Wright, Dummett, Feferman, and Hellman has revived the discussion on predicativity and its connections to issues such as neologicism, indispensability arguments etc. In the seminar we will begin by looking at the classical positions by Poincare and Weyl and after a brief interlude on the logical characterization of predicativity given by Feferman and Schutte in the sixties we will focus on some of the most recent philosophical discussions mentioned above.

  Day/Time: Th 2-4 pm

Political Science

• Political Science 201D. Governance of the E-conomy: The Politics of Growth in a Service Economy. Zysman.

  New digital technologies, changing market structures, and innovative business organizations are transforming the economic and social landscape of the advanced industrial countries. The policy issues associated with this transformation pose fundamental philosophical and political questions of how to organize our markets, polity, and society. The means of making and implementing these choices is politics. The necessarily global scope of the E-conomy extends the political and policy challenges to the international arena. This course will explore the literature on the political economy of the Internet to determine what policy choices -- hence which political debates -- are and will be most important. We also will examine our conceptual understanding of the burgeoning digital economy and its impact on politics, law, and socio-economic relations.

  Day/Time: W 10-12 pm

Public Health

• Public Health 103. Drugs, Health, and Society. Kodama.

  Introduces undergraduates to concepts basic to understanding and analyzing relationships between drugs, health, and society. Using a broad multi-disciplinary perspective, examines legal and illegal drugs and their effects on personal and community health. Prevention of drug problems at the policy, community, organization, and individual levels will be examined.

  Day/Time: MW 12-1 pm

• Public Health 131AC. Race, Ethnicity, and Health in America. Griego.

  Race, Ethnicity, and Health in America will attempt to integrate public health theory, values, and practice into a curriculum that acknowledges and values the health practices and philosophies of African American, Chicano/Latino, Asian, and Native American communities. By examining the historical and cultural prerequisites to health for each ethnic community, this course will allow students to fully appreciate the distinct contributions of each group.

  Day/Time: MWF 11-12 pm

• Public Health 150B. Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences. Spear.

  The course will present the major human and natural activities that lead to release of hazardous materials into the environment as well as the causal links between chemical, physical, and biological hazards in the environment and their impact on human health. The basic principles of toxicology will be presented including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals. The overall role of environmental risks in the pattern of human disease, both nationally and internationally, will be covered. The engineering and policy strategies, including risk assessment, used to evaluate and control these risks will be introduced.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30 pm

• Public Health 183. The History of Medicine, Public Health, and the Allied Health Sciences. Hook.

  This course will examine the historical developments of social and scientific responses to human disease from their beginnings to their current roles as major forces in modern society. It will consider the evolution of diagnoses, treatment, and prevention of human morbidity and death from both a humanistic and scientific perspective. It invites pre-medical, pre-dental, and other students preparing for careers in public health, nursing, optometry, or the other health sciences, students interested in public policy and health-related law, and students of history or the other humanities who wish an overview of medicine and health from a broad historical perspective.

  Day/Time: M 2-5 pm

• Public Health 211. Health and Human Rights. Ahmed.

  The course examines the origins of health and human rights concerns and outlines a conceptual basis for human rights among health professionals. It provides an overview of the epidemiology of human rights violations worldwide and an analysis of the psychology of abuse. The course considers the role of health professionals in; documenting the health and social consequences of human rights violations and war; treating survivors of abuse; addressing specific human rights concerns of women and children; identifying the impact of health policy on human rights; and participating in human rights education and advocacy. The course will also examine issues of universality of human rights and cultural relativism and the role of accountability for the past abuses in prevention.

  Day/Time: Th 2-5 pm

• Public Health 220A. Health Politics and Policy. Halpin.

  Introduction to some of the major analytic concepts in political science and their applications to current health care policy. Topics include power, interests, conflict, equity, liberty, paternalism, security, rights, rules, and representation.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30 pm

Public Policy

• Public Policy 290 (and 190). Science and Public Policy. Scotchmer/Maurer.

  This course investigates the relationship between science and public policy in the United States. How is public policy influenced by science (and scientists?). The course examines the science/policy relationship from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: economics, law, and comparative politics. (and Public Policy 190)

  Day/Time: Th 4-7 pm

Rhetoric

• Rhetoric 174. Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse. Wintroub.

  Examination of the characteristic functions of discourse in and about the natural sciences; with particular examination of the ways in which scientific language both guarantees, and at the same time, obscures the expression of social norms in scientific facts.

  Day/Time: Tu 10-1 pm

Sociology

• Sociology 160. Sociology of Culture. Fourcade-Gourinchas.

  Study of human meaning systems, particularly as manifested in art, literature, music, and other media. Includes study of the production, reception, and aesthetic experience of cultural forms.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• Sociology 190.001. The Political Economy of Globalization. Evans.

  Globalization is a buzz word. Everyone uses it. It is defined in so many different ways that it is hard to know what it means. Despite this, we must agree that the world now operates – socially, culturally, politically and economically – more as a single, integrated system and less as a collection of separate societies insulated from each other by national boundaries. This course will focus on two contradictory forms of globalization. First, we will look at the kind of globalization that has been most powerful in shaping recent changes. Its basic features are: a) the dismantling of the legal rules that allowed nation states to control the economic flows that crossed their borders; and, b) dramatic increases in cross-border financial flows. It might be called “neo-liberal corporate globalization.” Second, we will look at the expanding web of transnational movements and networks that has sought to redefine the process of globalization to emphasize the universalization of rights (human rights, women’s rights and workers’ rights) and the defense of transnationally shared interests (most prominently ecological sustainability). Those involved in this kind of globalization like to call it the “global justice movement.” It might also be called “counter-hegemonic globalization.” Students will be asked to write one short essay (1,200 words) and one longer paper (roughly 5,000 words). The longer paper can be a research paper, but does not have to be. Brief (200 word) weekly commentaries on the readings and two in-class presentations will also be required.

  Day/Time: W 12-2 pm

• Sociology 190.009. The Vanishing American Dream: Work in the New Economy. Sharone.

  Is your college degree a ticket to secure employment and a comfortable middle class life? Why do Americans work longer hours and have weaker unions than workers in other advanced democracies? Why do many fulltime workers on this campus earn poverty wages? How do gender and race affect occupational opportunities? These are just some of the questions discussed in this seminar, which will focus on the connection between people’s seemingly private and disconnected struggles to realize the American Dream and the underlying dynamics of Neoliberal capitalism in contemporary America.

  Day/Time: M 2-4 pm

South and Southeast Asian Studies

• SSEASN 39C. The Developing World: Profound Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities-An Example Applied to Eye Care in India. Enoch.

  The developing world and its profound problems will remain with us throughout our lifetime. Continued population growth, rapid aging of these populations and provision of care for the aged; questionable adequacy of harvests, greatly increased health needs (for example, the HIV-AIDS epidemic); often inadequate schooling; the caste system, and religion and the family as foci of society; the roles and needs of men and women; and many other problems all contribute to the complex of issues that need to be faced in these environments. While these problems are enormous, individuals (singly or working together) can make a difference. There are opportunities, and these people are both cooperative and willing to share in their development. One must limit oneself to a defined problem set. In this symposium, we will explore this complex of issues, and the teacher will define those things he was/is able to achieve (and problems and difficulties encountered) in the field of eye and vision care during more than a decade of active participation in India. With India's population passing the one billion mark, the importance of addressing the very great needs of India and other developing countries are emphasized. Individuals will be encouraged to participate actively in discussions, and to examine situations in other countries to better understand both existing problems and opportunities. Students will be asked to prepare oral presentations and written materials on related issues of personal interest. This course is also listed as Optometry 39B (CCN: 65506). This seminar may be used to satisfy the International Studies and Social and Behavioral Sciences requirements in Letters and Science.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2:30 - 4 pm

 

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