2021 Fall

HISTORY C250 001 - SEM 001

Topics in Science and Technology Studies

Hannah Zeavin

Aug 25, 2021 - Dec 10, 2021

04:00 pm - 05:59 pm

Stephens 470

Class #:21734

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction
Time Conflict Enrollment Allowed

Offered through History

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 1

Enrolled: 5

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 6

Waitlist Max: 5

No Reserved Seats

Also offered as: ESPM C252, STS C200

Hours & Workload

6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Other classes by Hannah Zeavin

This course provides a strong foundation for graduate work in STS, a multidisciplinary field with a signature capacity to rethink the relationship among science, technology, and political and social life. From climate change to population genomics, access to medicines and the impact of new media, the problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic.

Class Description

Instructor bio: Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2018. She works as a media historian with particular expertise in the intertwined histories of communication, technology, and medicine. Her book project, Within Without: Therapy at Distance, is a transnational social history of mediated therapies from Freud's letters to apps for smartphones.