Our panel takes a workshop-based approach to thinking about how to make different disciplinary backgrounds and knowledges brought to STS classes a feature of the class rather than a bug that needs to be ironed out. We look at example practical...Read more
This is a syllabus for Science and Technology Studies (STS 5024), a graduate course taught by Sonja Schmid and Matthew Wisnioski in Fall 2020.Read more
Throughout this semester, we will focus on the search for knowledge about the natural world, from antiquity to today. In order to successfully participate in this course, you must first forget everything you think you know about science, how it has developed, and what it means to you today. We...Read more
"Navigating Dimensions across Materials and History: Scale as a Lens to Understand Dynamic and Cumulative Sociotechnical Relationships" by Ellan F. Spero and Christine Ortiz.
Spero, E. F., & Ortiz, C. (2021). Navigating Dimensions across Materials and History: Scale as a Lens to...Read more
I see a real growth in interest and investment in STS teaching, as evidenced by the increased presence of panels related to pedagogy in the most recent 4S meetings, remarks made by former 4S...Read more
These panel notes record key points made during the Interrogating STS Pedagogies panel with Martin Perez Comisso, Eric Kennedy, James Malazita, Raquel Velho, and Matt Wisnioski, on July 7, as part of the STS as a Critical Pedagogy NSF-funded workshop. Notes were primarily taken by undergraduate...Read more
We make the digital from the natural world, crafting metals and plastics into sleek handheld forms. We observe and make our understandings of environments through digital devices, spreadsheet accounting and carbon calculations. We have brought epochal shifts into being through rhetoric,...Read more
This syllabus is for arts based research, intended for graduate students in a community arts and education program. The primary audience was students who had never done qualitative research before with the occasional doctorate student...Read more