PSU courses with Social Thought Themes

NAME

TITLE (DEPT.)

Courses Fall 2008

BAUCHSPIES, WENDA K

ASSOC PROF STS & WOM STUD (STS PROGRAM )

S T S 589 ETHICS AND VALUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (3) Study interrelationships of 20th century technological and scientific change and human values with emphasis on social and ethical aspects of technological and scientific progress. (Wednesdays 09:05A - 12:05P)
LOVE, NANCY ASSOC PROF PLSC AND CAS

PLSC 583, Modern Political and Social Theory, M 1:25-4:25, 101 Pond.

Research on major developments and issues in modern political and social theory, such as critical theory, modernism, and postmodernism.  This is a 3 credit seminar with variable content; students can schedule the seminar three times for a total of nine credits.   When I offer the seminar, I emphasize the critical theories of  Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas, Marcuse and their origins in Marx, Nietzsche, Weber and Freud.

NOTE: This course will count for SOCTH 501

BENSON, THOMAS WALTER

EDWIN ERLE SPARKS PROF (COMMUNICATION ARTS & SCIENCES)

(1) CAS 500 - Rhetoric of the American Presidency MW 9:45-11 – (2) CAS 515 - Rhetoric of Film - Alfred Hitchcock and the Critics, The Rhetoric of the Thriller as Art, Entertainment, and Social Text M2:30-5:30; Wed 4-5:30 –
further information:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/3/t3b/

MOSES, WILSON J

FERREE PROF/IAH FELLOW (HISTORY)

History 463
“This course focuses on the American intellectual tradition, presenting and discussing ideas and writings by women and men of letters, from the early colonial period to the Civil War.  The writings of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Alexander Crummell are among those emphasized.   European influences especially those of the Puritan, enlightenment and romantic movements, along with Darwin, Marx and Wagner will be strongly emphasized.  Undergraduates will be expected to write a mid-semester and a final examination, and to prepare a 4500 word paper outside of class.  Graduate students should attempt to lay the foundations for a potentially publishable article, which might be archival, historiographical, or interpretive.”

SICA, ALAN M

PROF SOCIOLOGY  (SOCIOLOGY  )

Soc. 502 ("Theories of Society I", a.k.a "Classical Social Theory. From Locke to Weber's death in 1920

NOTE: This course will count for SOCTH 501

 

Spring, 09: Soc. 503 "Contemporary Social Theory," from Mannheim through the latest wrinkle (1920-2008),with emphasis on the post-1960 period

SQUIER, SUSAN MERRILL

BRILL PROF OF WMNST/ENGL (WOMEN'S STUDIES )

Doctoral seminar on feminist science studies through women's studies. Specifics to follow.