Science in Society Program 1 BA, Northwestern University; MA, Yale University; MPHIL, Yale University; PHD, Yale University SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Associate Professor of American Studies; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor, Science in Society; Coordinator, PROGRAM Disability Studies The sciences and scientifically sophisticated medicine and technology are among Peter S. Gottschalk the most important and far-reaching human achievements. Scientific work has BA, College of the Holy Cross; MA, Univ of Wisconsin Fond Du Lac; PHD, affected people’s intellectual standards, cultural meanings, political possibilities, University of Chicago economic capacities, and physical surroundings. Scientific research has also Professor of Religion; Professor, Education Studies; Professor, Science in Society; acquired significance, direction, authority, and application within various cultural CPE Instructor contexts. To understand the sciences as human achievements is, in significant part, to understand the world in which we live. Lori Gruen BA, University of Colorado Boulder; PHD, University of Colorado Boulder The Science in Society Program (SISP) is an interdisciplinary major that William Griffin Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy; Professor, encourages the study of the sciences and medicine as institutions, practices, Science in Society; Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; intellectual achievements, and constituents of culture. Students in the program Coordinator, Animal Studies should gain a better understanding of the richness and complexity of scientific practice and of the cultural and political significance of science, technology, Steven W. Horst and medicine. The major is well suited for students interested in a variety BA, Boston University; PHD, University of Notre Dame of professional and academic pursuits after graduation, since it encourages Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Philosophy; Professor, Science in Society; students to integrate technical scientific knowledge with a grasp of the historical Coordinator, Christianity Studies and cultural setting within which it is understood and used. William D. Johnston BA, Elmira College; MA, Harvard University; PHD, Harvard University John E. Andrus Professor of History; Professor of History; Professor, Science in FACULTY Society; Professor, Environmental Studies; Professor, East Asian Studies Anthony Ryan Hatch Jill G. Morawski AB, Dartmouth College; MA, University of Maryland College Park; PHD, University BA, Mount Holyoke College; MA, Carleton University; MAA, Wesleyan University; of Maryland College Park PHD, Carleton University Associate Professor of Science in Society; Chair, Science in Society; Associate Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of Natural Science; Professor of Psychology; Professor, African American Studies; Associate Professor, College of the Chair, Psychology; Professor, Science in Society; Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Environment; Associate Professor, Sociology; Associate Professor, Environmental Sexuality Studies Studies; Coordinator, Sustainability and Environmental Justice Victoria Pitts-Taylor Joseph T. Rouse BA, Ohio University; PHD, Brandeis University BA, Oberlin College; MA, Northwestern University; MAA, Wesleyan University; Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Professor, Science in PHD, Northwestern University Society; Professor, Sociology Hedding Professor of Moral Science; Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Mary-Jane Victoria Rubenstein Science in Society; Professor, Environmental Studies BA, Williams College; MA, Columbia University; MPHIL, Cambridge University; Mitali Thakor MPHIL, Columbia University; PHD, Columbia University BA, Stanford University; PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor of Religion; Professor, Science in Society; Professor, Feminist, Gender, Assistant Professor of Science in Society; Assistant Professor, Anthropology; and Sexuality Studies Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Courtney Weiss Smith BA, University Of Dayton; MA, Washington University; PHD, Washington University AFFILIATED FACULTY Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, Science in Society Paul Hilding Erickson Jennifer Tucker BA, Harvard University; MA, Univ of Wisconsin Madison; PHD, Univ of Wisconsin BA, Stanford University; MPHIL, Cambridge University; PHD, Johns Hopkins Madison University Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor, Environmental Studies; Associate Professor of History; Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Associate Professor, Science in Society Associate Professor, Environmental Studies; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Tutor, College of Social Studies; Associate Courtney Fullilove Professor, Science in Society BA, Columbia University; MA, Columbia University; MPHIL, Columbia University; PHD, Columbia University Laura Ann Twagira Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor, Environmental Studies; BA, Wellesley College; MA, Sarah Lawrence College; PHD, Rutgers University Associate Professor, Science in Society Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor, Science in Society; Associate Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Megan H. Glick 2 Science in Society Program Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 VISITING FACULTY Gen Ed Area: SBS-ANTH Identical With: ANTH113 Natalie Shibley Prereq: None BA, Columbia University; MA, University of Pennsylvania; PHD, University of SISP118 Reproduction in the 21st Century Pennsylvania This course will cover basic human reproductive biology, new and future Visiting Assistant Professor of Science and Society reproductive and contraceptive technologies, and the ethics raised by reproductive issues. Offering: Crosslisting Grading: A-F DEPARTMENTAL ADVISING EXPERT Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed Area: NSM-BIOL Tony Hatch Identical With: BIOL118, FGSS118, PHIL118 • Undergraduate Science in Society Major (https://catalog.wesleyan.edu/ Prereq: None departments/sisp/ugrd-sisp/) SISP120F Uncertainty and the Future (FYS) The world we live in is full of risk and uncertainty. Science, politics, and SISP109 Psychology and Technologies of the Self and Social World economics all tell us that this is a hazardous era in which great changes are The psychological sciences are generating novel and remarkable understandings inevitable and catastrophes are possible. How do people manage living in such of individual minds, social interactions, groups, and institutions, and these an uncertain world? This first-year seminar introduces students to research findings are being extended to benefit individual and social welfare. As we dwell and writing in the social sciences by studying a driving factor in the human in a world increasingly understood in psychological terms and managed through search for knowledge: the uncertainty of the unknown future. We will consider psychological technologies, crucial questions warrant attention. What are the how the ways in which humans define, relate to, and experience uncertainty implications of adopting these new understandings of self and others? Does this influence social well-being and the production of the future. We begin with new knowledge change us and, if so, how? How do we assess the consequences the anthropological study of uncertainty, which is rooted in the study of ritual of this knowledge as it is implemented in social practices? These questions and magic, and then consider perspectives in psychology, economics, and guide our examination of cases where psychological knowledge has informed ecology. While we will reflect on the "negative" side of uncertainty, such as new practices and policies. The cases include research on decision-making, risk, precariousness, and insecurity, we will also examine the way the creative integration, positive psychology, psychopharmacology, stress, and attitudes. Also management of uncertainty is sometimes romanticized and consider the considered will be instances where psychological ideas have been implemented opportunities for creativity, adaptation, resilience, and imagination in uncertain then challenged, including psychosurgery and token economies. times. Offering: Crosslisting Offering: Crosslisting Grading: A-F Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed Area: SBS-PSYC Gen Ed Area: HA-ENGL Identical With: PSYC109 Identical With: WRCT120F Prereq: None Prereq: None SISP113 Care and Suffering SISP121F Living within the Bio-Logical (FYS) In this introductory course, we will explore the production and representation How do biology and society relate to each other? This first-year seminar provides of human suffering, in addition to the modes of care deployed by healers, kin an introductory overview of how the biosciences have been entangled in social groups, aid workers, and state actors to alleviate the suffering of others. We contexts, from the Enlightenment to the current technoscience era. We will will begin by mastering dominant approaches within anthropology for studying examine contemporary case studies where society impacts biology and biology affliction. We will then examine case examples of bodies in distress. We will impacts society, particularly those that show the complex interplay between discover that suffering is inherently social: it is shared, socially produced, and the body and the environment. We will look at how rates of obesity relate communicated through socially learned and sanctioned means. Suffering is to inequality and insecurity,