Examines science and technology innovation systems, including case studies on energy, computing, advanced manufacturing, and health sectors. 0000175753 00000 n
Not offered regularly; consult department3-0-9 units. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37: 117-34. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. 0000008413 00000 n
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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. Prereq: None G (Fall, Spring)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. 0000008312 00000 n
Pub. Same subject as 21A.505[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Fall)3-0-9 units. By 2035, IPCC predicts that the temperature will rise between 0.3-0.7. The rapid climate change we are now seeing is caused by humans using oil, gas and . HASS-H. Assesses the place of science in American public life from the 1920s to the present. HASS-H; CI-H. See description under subject 12.384[J]. Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide concentrations are now more abundant in the earth's atmosphere than any time in the last 800,000 years. Case studies vary from year to year, but always include a current MIT event. Also addresses the science and technology talent base as a factor in growth, and educational approaches to better support it. IPCC (2014) Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units. HASS-S. See description under subject 21A.500[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. Explores the organization and role of energy and medical science R&D agencies, as well as gaps in those innovation systems. Climate change is a shift in those average conditions. Same subject as 21A.859[J]Prereq: None G (Fall)3-0-9 units. The warmest year on record since records began in 1880 was 2016, with 2020 ranking second. Global survey of the great transformation in history known as the "Industrial Revolution." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cappucci, M. (2020) Unprecedented heat in Siberia pushed planet to warmest June on record, tied with last year. The Washington Post. Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. 0000017890 00000 n
HASS-A; CI-H. See description under subject 21A.550[J]. Using the American Civil War as a baseline, considers what it means to become "modern" by exploring the war's material and manpower needs, associated key technologies, and how both influenced the United States' entrance into the age of "Big Business." Student works closely with STS faculty tutor. From more extreme weather to rising seas, the climate is changing in ways that pose increasing risks to people and ecosystems. HASS-H. Going beyond issues of brain drain and brain circulation, explores how contemporary science and technology innovations look from, and are being created in, parts of the world other than the US and Europe. Identifies contemporary forms of resistance and imaginations of innovation that still endure and flourish in the global south, challenging perspectives from the global north. Climate models most closely match the observed temperature trend only when natural and anthropogenic forcings are considered together. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. Same subject as 12.384[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered 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. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Spring)3-0-9 units. Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. Adapted from image by W. Elder, National Park Service. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offeredUnits arrangedCan be repeated for credit. Team-taught subject that centers Global South cosmologies and epistemologies marginalized by colonization, slavery, and racism across the world. Subject meets with 11.204[J], IDS.524[J]Prereq: None U (Fall) satellites not just as technology demonstrators, but as components of a critical communication and information-based infrastructure for modern societies. Same subject as 17.309[J], IDS.055[J]Prereq: None U (Spring)4-0-8 units. Goes on to explore the dynamics and consequences of quantification across a range of modern domains, including science, politics, governance, health, education, crime, law, economic development, finance, and environmental regulation. Open to upperclassmen with permission of instructor. Prereq: None U (Fall, IAP, Spring)Units arranged [P/D/F]Can be repeated for credit. Climate change is affecting the American people in far-reaching ways. Examines anticancer efforts as a critical area for the formation of contemporary biomedical explanations for health and disease. Climate change is altering temperature, precipitation, and sea levels, and will adversely impact human and natural systems, including water resources, human settlements and health, ecosystems, and biodiversity. 0000008252 00000 n
HASS-S. Investigates trends in youth political activism during specific historical periods, as well as what difference youth media production and technology use (e.g., radio, music, automobiles, ready-made clothing) made in determining the course of events. IPCC (2007) Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. HASS-H. Adapted from USGCRP (2009) Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. Prereq: One CI-H/CI-HW subject and permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Enrollment limited. Download Outline (PDF, 110KB) Download Full Presentation (PPT, 148MB) Updated: April 2021. Achieving the Triple Win of CSA. 0000160686 00000 n
Covers the development of major fields in the physical and life sciences, from 18th-century Europe through 20th-century America. Instruction in expressing ideas clearly and in organizing a thesis-length work. Acad Year 2023-2024: G (Spring)3-0-9 units, Subject meets with 21H.205[J], STS.027[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Fall) Uses films, novels, and artworks to think across disciplinary boundaries and the impact of science and technology on social worlds (as well as the social worlds of scientists and engineers). Team-taught face-to-face classes at multiple US and African universities connected live via Zoom. 0000002723 00000 n
Open to undergraduates by permission of instructor. Explores emotional and intellectual impact of objects. Prereq: None G (Spring) Impacts related to climate change are evident across regions and in many sectors important to societysuch as human health, agriculture and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and othersand are expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond. To complicate things further, no one fully understands how . Culminates with the project's installation in the MIT Museum's Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. Acad Year 2023-2024: U (Fall)3-0-9 units. 0000025724 00000 n
Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat similar to the glass roof of a greenhouse. 0000004784 00000 n
Also examines the changing institutions in which various scientific fields were conducted during the postwar decades, investigating possible epistemic effects on forms of knowledge. 0000010913 00000 n
The greenhouse effect works much the same way on Earth. Acad Year 2023-2024: Not offered3-0-9 units. NOAA (2022) State of the Climate: 2021Global Climate Report. 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 . Prereq: None U (Spring)3-0-9 units. STS contributes to undergraduate education at MIT in several ways. Explores the contributions of big capital, engineers, politicians, and ordinary people. Human activities are contributing to climate change, primarily by releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and other heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, into the atmosphere every year. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association, the American Association of Geographers, the American Sociological Association, and During a workshop, experts will explore the potential for synthesizing the human sciences to develop critical societal capacities for and responses to climate change. Ice ages are at least partially caused by changes in Earth's orbit and axis. Includes a field trip. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor; consult department for details. This term is not interchangeable with the term "climate change." 0000010142 00000 n
The three main objectives are to immerse students in the historical, cultural, multi-cultural, and entrepreneurial aspects of energy across the world to make them better energy engineers; to introduce them to research and analytical methods; and to deploy these methods and their various skills to solve/design a solution, in groups, to a specific energy problem chosen by the students. Includes brief reflection papers and a final paper. 0000004516 00000 n
HASS-H. A survey of America's transition from a rural, agrarian, and artisan society to one of the world's leading industrial powers. Introduction. Limited to 14 students. Not offered regularly; consult departmentUnits arrangedCan be repeated for credit. 0000008111 00000 n
In 2020 global average land temperatures experienced a record high, while 2016 global ocean temperatures remain the highest on record. 0000004429 00000 n
Provides instruction on how people have historically connected computers to ideas on social, economic, and political change and how these ideas have changed over time. Same subject as 21A.429[J]Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2022-2023: G (Spring) Same subject as 21A.501[J]Prereq: None Acad Year 2022-2023: Not offered Climate change causes sea levels to rise in two ways. Life during the Spanish Era. They are mostly located on the ridge of the Pambamarca volcano, which is severely affected by erosion. In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that: It is extremely likely (>95 % certainty) that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.. Visit the website for additional information about the HASTS graduate program or contact the STS academic administrator, Room E51-163, 617-253-9759. Prereq: None U (Fall, IAP, Spring) Examines the technologies, individuals and socio-economic systems that are associated with such efforts, as well as the impact that these efforts have on society and science as a whole. This leads to global warming and climate change. 0000006048 00000 n
To fulfill the remaining subject requirement, students choose from among several departmental seminars designed to offer more in-depth study of particular topics. Provides an introduction to the analysis of gender in science, technology, and environmental politics from a global perspective. Covers the political arithmetic of the 17th century to the present. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Introduction to current methodological approaches, centered around two primary questions: how have science and technology evolved as human activities, and what roles do they play in society? 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. 0000000016 00000 n
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