The SEPP Minor will help students to explore and understand, experiment with, and improve public policy relevant to the sciences, engineering, business, and government. The minor will engage students in the study of the institutions, policies, and public budgeting underlying public investment in science, technology, and engineering.

Undergraduate Minor in Science, Engineering, Innovation, and Public Policy

Core Courses:

Science, Engineering, Innovation, and Public PolicyInnovation, Policy, and the Global EconomyBusiness & Government Relationship

Sample of Elective Courses

The Analysis and Display of DataTechniques of Political AnalysisQualitative ResearchFoundations of Survey ResearchIntroduction to Cultures of Science and TechnologyHistory of American TechnologyPublic Forest and Lands Policy Food Laws and RegulationsPopulation, Food, and the EnvironmentCurrent Issues in Global Environmental Health

PUBAFR 5600 / ENVENG 5600 Science, Engineering, Innovation, and Public Policy, will present a history of the interactions between science, engineering, and public policy in the United States and in the context of global concerns (e.g. climate change, competitiveness), inquire into how various the federal government, universities, and corporations conduct and fund science and engineering, and explore how public sector interests and processes influence, and are influenced by, science, engineering, and public policy. Case studies devoted to the science, engineering, and policy of the University’s Discovery Themes will help students apply policy analysis and developments in science and engineering to understand the relevance to real-world needs and policies.

CTIP COURSESCTIP faculty teach the following courses on technology topics: PPA 730 Information Management in the Public SectorPPA 730 Networked GovernancePPA 730 Government 2.0PPA 772 Science, Technology and Public PolicyPPA 776 Economics of Science and TechnologyPSC 755 Politics and Governance in the Information Age PPA 772 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

AND PUBLIC POLICY

Discusses the interplay of science, technology and public policy. This course explores the relations of scientists and policymakers (knowledge and power). Technology is viewed as a resource that is both a tool of policy and a factor shaping policy. Moreover, various interests promote, oppose, and seek to control technology to "leverage" the future. Focus is on the United States, but attention is given also to other nations and their science and technology policies. A special concern is science, technology and environmental policy.

Syracuse University – The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Course Overview

Graduate study provides you with an opportunity to gain expertise within a particular disciplinary or interdisciplinary specialty. Such expertise is essential to the processes of creating new knowledge and integrating existing knowledge to produce novel insights. But society looks increasingly to experts to do more than conduct research and produce knowledge -- society looks to experts to play a central role in securing the benefits of the nation’s investment in knowledge, while at the same time, helping to protect against the misuse or unintended consequences of science and technology. In short, society expects experts to contribute to decision making in public, private and civic settings.

Science and technology result in a broad range of impacts on society. The impacts can be positive, such as the advances in health care over the twentieth century, or they can be negative, such as in the prospect of a disease escaping a lab and infecting millions of people. The impacts of science and technology on society depend on the decisions we make and decision processes we implement for the governance of science and technology. Given the central role played by science and technology in modern society it is critical to develop expertise at the interface of science, technology and decision making.

Courses Offered by Center Faculty:

ENVS 4800 Making Decisions in a Complicated WorldENVS 5000 Policy, Science, and the EnvironmentENVS 5100 Science and Technology PolicyENVS 5110 Science, Technology, and Society (STS) StudiesENVS 5120 Quantitative Methods of Policy AnalysisENVS 5720 The Problem Orientation

University of Colorado, Boulder – Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

Undergraduate Course Thread

The undergraduate Course Thread on Sciences and Society begins with the understanding that the pressing problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic. Beyond the confines of traditional disciplines–and in addition to the student’s major or minor–the Sciences and Society Course Thread helps Berkeley undergraduates investigate the complex relationships between these perspectives and practices, which are too often kept apart. It offers the opportunity to understand how science, technology, and medicine change our horizons of political possibility and social (in)justice. It also help us understand how social and ethical commitments, historical processes, and political formations help shape what will count as authoritative knowledge and viable technologies. The Course Thread on Sciences and Society was mentioned as exemplar of new model of undergrad education in the L&S Faculty Forum report on Re-imagining Undergraduate Education at Berkeley.

The kinds of topics students will find in this Course Thread include the histories and futures of artificial intelligence and what it means to be human; race, identity, and genetics; the politics of access to medicines at home and globally; global environmental politics, social justice, and sustainable development; and much more. With courses in departments including Integrative Biology, Rhetoric, History, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Ethnic Studies, Engineering, Geography, Anthropology, and many more, the Sciences and Society Course Thread helps Berkeley undergraduates develop new kinds of interdisciplinary literacy that are become increasingly important to our engagements in the contemporary world.

Courses Offered

101 American Culture in the Atomic Age

84.2 Has Feminism Changed Science?

189 Bio-Power, Bio-Sociality, Bio-Design

119 Con(sequential) Geneologies of Difference: Anthropology and Genomics

119.1 Critical Bioethics

121 Theoretical Approaches in American Historical Archaeology

189 Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Medicine

The Anthropology of Reason, Science, and Modernity

The Archaeology of Health and Disease

Anthropology of the Environment

Energy, Culture, and Social Organization

Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Whose Science, Whose Fiction? Exploring America's Scientific Imagination

Chicanos and Health Care

Introduction to Urban and Regional Transportation Planning

University of California, Berkeley – Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society

Minor in Technology and Policy

For CMU students in Mellon College of Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Fine Arts, EPP administers the Technology and Policy Minor. The T&P minor is designed to allow students to explore interests in the interactions of technology and policy without significant overload to the course requirements in their major curriculum.

The T&P Minor requires satisfactory completion of a set of six courses totaling to a minimum of 51 units. Courses taken for your major or other minor may be double-counted towards the T&P Minor. Note that some courses that qualify for the T&P minor are courses in engineering departments and may therefore involve prerequisites.

T&P Minor Curriculum Units

19-102 EPP Sophomore Seminar 3

19-451 (or 19-452) EPP Project 12

73-100 Principles of Economics 9

88-223 Decision Analysis & Decision Support Systems OR88-302 Behavioral Decision Making

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Two T&P Technical Electives 18

Carnegie Mellon University – Department of Engineering and Public Policy

T&P Technical Electives include courses in that generally belong to two categories: courses which synthesize engineering analysis and social analysis perspectives and apply them to problems with substantial societal technological components; and courses which teach methods or background vital to classes of important problems at the technology-society interface. Specific areas of interest for these courses are

• Energy, resources, and the environment• Risk assessment• Forensic engineering• Urban engineering• Information and communication technology• Product engineering and design• Robotics

Minor in Science, Technology, Environment and Public Policy

The Minor in Science, Technology, Environment and Public Policy (STEPPS) is available as an elective to students who are enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs at Michigan State University. The minor will expose students to policy-making processes at the local, state, national and international levels; examine historical trends and analyze social relationships; build a strong understanding of scientific principles used to formulate sound policy initiatives; and facilitate a linkage between policy-making and science, technology and the environment.

Michigan State University – James Madison College of Public Affairs

Minor Requirements

Science, Technology, Environment and Public Policy:

Introduction to Science, Technology, the Environment and Public Policy

History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science

Philosophy of Ecology

American and European Health Care Since 1800

Environmental Reporting

Topics in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science

Technology and Culture

Topics in History of Science

Public Policy

Public Policy Issues in the Agri-Food System

Global Issues in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Economics of Developing Countries

Environmental Economics

Law and Resources

Forest Resource Economics

Natural Resource Policy

Conservation Ethics

Socio-Economics of Conservation Biology

Science, Technology and Public Policy

The Philosophy of Technology

Course DescriptionIntroduction to Science, Technology, the Environment and Public Policy

Relation of science and technology to ethics and public policy. Environmental law and public policy. Managing fish, water and wildlife resources at state, national, and international levels. Science and technology in developing countries. Impacts of military technology on environmental policy.