ANT 261 - Science, Policy, and Society

Instructor
Lozada

Inquiry into the production and cultural meanings of scientific knowledge and technological change. Comparison of the function and rhetoric of scientific “truths” to other modes of truth-production, such as religion, and its application in policy. Topics include the conflict and dialogue between science and religion, rationality, the practice of science, environmental issues, and social change.

Students entering before 2012: satisfies Social Science distribution requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. (Spring; offered in alternating years.)