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SDN Course Syllabi

These course syllabi, compiled by Shobita Parthasarathy, have been categorized by topic. It is hoped that they will help experienced scholars to expand their teaching repertoires and newer scholars to craft their own courses.

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the individual syllabi are copyrighted works of their creators and are used here with permission. They are for the personal use of SDN members. Distribution on other sites is not authorized.

Politics and Policy of Science and Technology

• Reflexivity in Science and Governance, Clark Miller
• Science and the State, Arthur Daemmrich
• The Politics of Scientific Knowledge, Kaushik Sunder Rajan
• Knowledge, Technology, and Property, Stephen Hilgartner
• Science & Courts, Javier Lezaun
• Science and Democracy, Clark Miller
• Introduction to Science & Technology Policy Analysis, Shobita Parthasarathy and Paul Erickson
• Political Environment of Policymaking [Comparative Science & Technology Policy], Shobita Parthasarathy
• Science, Power and Politics (I), Sheila Jasanoff
• Science, Technology, and the Politics of Nature, David Winickoff
• Risk Governance: Policymaking, Knowledge, and Uncertainty, Pierre Benoit Joly
• Risk Governance (2): Policymaking, Knowledge, and Uncertainty, Pierre Benoit Joly
• Risk Governance-Methodology: Policymaking, Knowledge, and Uncertainty, Pierre Benoit Joly
• In-Formation: Ethnographies of Emergent Structures, Kaushik Sunder Rajan
• Collaborative Governance: Planning for the Unthinkable, Bruce Goldstein

Expertise

• Policy, Publics, and Expertise, Brian Wynne and Bronislaw Szerszynski
• Community Involvement and Public Participation, Bruce Goldstein
• The Role of Experts in the Policy Process, David H. Guston
• Citizen Science: Environment, Technology & Democracy, Roopali Phadke

Genetics/Biotechnology/Biomedicine: Politics and Policy

• Genetics and Biotechnology Policy, Shobita Parthasarathy
• The Politics of the New Genetics, Javier Lezaun
• Bioethics, Law and the Life Sciences, Sheila Jasanoff
• The New Life Sciences: Emerging Technologies, Emerging Politics, Stephen Hilgartner
• The Politics of International Health, from Smallpox to Stem Cells, Shobita Parthasarathy
• Bioethics and Society, David Winickoff
• Biomedicine: Ethics, Law, and Practice, Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Environmental Politics and Policy

• Environmental Politics, Sheila Jasanoff
• Environment and Culture, Bronislaw Szerszynski
• Global Environmental Governance, Paul Erickson
• Global Environmental Governance, Clark Miller
• Introduction to Environmental Planning and Policy, Bruce Goldstein
• Institutions, Environmental Change and Development, Tim Forsyth
• Institutions and Global Environmental Change, Tim Forsyth
• Environmental Analysis and Problem Solving, Roopali Phadke