Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is an internationally recognized field of interdisciplinary study that integrates social scientific and humanistic studies to better understand the natural and human-built world. The minor in STS offers students the opportunity to critically examine science, technology, and medicine as expressions of human cultures, past and present. Students learn to scrutinize the ideas, values, and materials embedded in the world they inhabit today and to relate them to other times and places. They explore how choices made within various social, economic, and political structures influence the development of science, technology and medicine. They also see how the adoption and diffusion of ideas, artifacts and techniques can then influence individuals, society, politics, and culture. Courses in this minor draw students together from diverse majors across the campus role of science and technology in society.
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The minor program in STS is open to all undergraduate students at JMU. Courses taken to complete the STS minor can also be used to satisfy the student's major, as well as General Education requirements. The STS minor requires 18 credit hours with at least one course from the history, sociology, and ISAT courses listed below:

ISAT 131 Technology, Science, and Society
SOCI 315 Science, Technology, and Society
HIST 327 Technology in America