Not offered in 1996. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years To be advised. At least two 200-level HPS subjects. Double semester A 2-hour seminar fortnightly. Students completing this subject should:

• be familiar with methodological issues in the social study of contemporary science;
• have undertaken a practical study through which central themes of understanding science as production and product have been explored;
• have developed the analytical tools for mapping the interconnections between science and society, knowledge and power, technology and culture.

The subject offers an opportunity to develop puzzles and problems which arise out of your encounters with scientific knowledge and technologies in the laboratory, in daily life and in the workplace. As part of your study you will engage in field projects which throw light on how we can disagregate science as representational truth, and understand science as activity within a field of power relations, as gendered and/or as the expression of particular values. Written work not exceeding 5,000 words in total. To be eligible for assessment, students must attend 80 per cent of classes. Not offered in 1996. 16.7 Ms A Dugdale Double semester. 2 hour seminar meetings fortnightly At least two 200-level HPS subjects. Students completing this subject should:

• be familiar with methodological issues in the social study of contemporary science;
• have undertaken a practical study through which central themes of understanding science as production and product have been explored;
• have developed the analytical tools for mapping the interconnections between science and society, knowledge and power, technology and culture.

The subject offers an opportunity to develop puzzles and problems which arise out of your encounters with scientific knowledge and technologies in the laboratory, in daily life and in the workplace. As part of your study you will engage in field projects which throw light on how we can disagregate science as representational truth, and understand science as activity within a field of power relations, as gendered, and/or as the expression of particular values. Written work not exceeding 5,000 words in total. To be eligible for assessment students must attend 80% of classes.