Humanities, Science, and Technology

In Spring 2001, the Choices and Challenges Project received a grant from Virginia Tech's Center for Innovation in Learning to develop module-based learning activities as a resource for students and instructors of classes in Humanities, Science, and Technology (HST).

This section of the website is designed specifically for those instructors and students. However, all the resources are available to anyone who might find them of use. Please let us know what works and what doesn't in your classroom. What else would you like to see?

• By clicking on Humanities, Science & Technology Syllabi, you will have the opportunity to browse various syllabi from different versions of the many HST classes currently offered at Virginia Tech:
  • 1504: Introduction to Humanities, Science & Technology
  • 2054: Engineering Cultures
  • 2154: Humanities, Technology & the Life Sciences
  • 2354: Humanities, Technology & the Physical Sciences
  • 2984: Gender and Technology (crosslisted with WS 2984)
  • 3105: Humanities, Technology in Modern Society I
  • 3106: Humanities, Technology in Modern Society II
  • 4304: Contemporary Issues in Humanities, Science & Technology
  • 4504: Science, the Scientist & Society

   

  Related classes offered regularly through the department of History include:

  • 3144: American Environmental History
  • 3705: History of Science (Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution)
  • 3706: History of Science (Industrial Revolution to the Present Day)
  • 3715: History of Technology (Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution)
  • 3716: History of Technology (Industrial Revolution to the Present Day)
  • 3724: History of Disease, Medicine and Health

  
  

• Learning Module Activities will link to activities that can be used in conjunction with the video excerpts from past Choices and Challenges forums made available on this site:

• Reinventing the Human: The Six Million Dollar Body
• Reinventing the Human: Designer Children
• Quality of Life: In the Global Environment
• Quality of Life: In the Electronic Village
• Quality of Life: At the End of Life
  
  
• An Online Discussion forum was created for each of the modules:
  • Reinventing the Human: The Six Million Dollar Body;
  • Reinventing the Human: Designer Children;
  • Quality of Life: In the Global Environment;
  • Quality of Life: In the Electronic Village;
  • Quality of Life: At the End of Life.

  
  If you would like a separate forum for your classroom or community group to use privately, please contact us at choices@vt.edu.

• Often, discussions centered on films that deal with science, technology and society jumpstart excellent conversations. We have compiled a list of fiction and non-fiction films that have worked in our classrooms at Virginia Tech.
  
  
• Additional Resources (including recommended readings, related websites, and the latest news) are available to accompany each module:
  • Reinventing the Human: The Six Million Dollar Body
  • Reinventing the Human: Designer Children
  • Quality of Life: In the Global Environment
  • Quality of Life: In the Electronic Village
  • Quality of Life: At the End of Life

  
  Check back often for new material.

Best wishes for excellent conversations.

Choices and Challenges Project
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Virgina Tech, Mail Code: 0227
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Phone: 540 231-6476 Fax: 540 231-7013
Email: choices@vt.edu