HCST Electives List

Complete 4 courses from a minimum of two disciplines, including a minimum of one semester of HCST 499, from the following or other approved courses:

This course list will be subject to periodic revision. 

  • HCST 400 – Independent Study in Human Context of Science and Technology (3)
  • HCST 499 – Advanced Topics in the Human Context of Science and Technology (3)
  • AMST 270 – American Culture and Science (3)
  • AMST 388 – American Environments: Landscape and Culture (3) (AH)
  • ANCS 330 – Ancient Science and Technology (3) (AH; C)
  • ANCS 375 – Ancient Medicine (3) (AH; C)
  • ANTH 312 – Medical Anthropology (3) (WI)
  • ANTH 318 – Anthropology of Science and Technology (3) (SS; WI)
  • ANTH 380 – Energy in Crisis (3) (C; SS)
  • ANTH 381 – Design and Culture (3) (C; SS)
  • ANTH 416 / SOCY 416 – Cyberspace Culture (3)
  • CMSC 304 – Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technology (3) (AH; WI)
  • CMSC 404 – The History of Computers and Computing (3)
  • ECON 418 – Economics of Innovation and Technology (3) (WI)
  • ENGL 317 – Literature and the Sciences (3)
  • ENGL 383 – Science Writing (3)
  • ENGL 419 – Seminar in Literature and the Sciences (3)
  • GES 326 – American Conservation Thought (3) (SS; WI)
  • GES 350 – Climate Change and Society (3)
  • GES 428 – Scientific Practice and Environmental Policy**
  • GES 432 – Seminar in Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (3)
  • GLBL 410 / MLLI 410 – I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK (3)
  • GWST 352 – Women, Gender, and Information Technology (3) (SS)
  • GWST 378 – Women, Gender and Science (3) (SS; WI)
  • GWST 381 – Reproductive Justice in the US (3)
  • HIST 350 – History of Medicine (3) (C; SS)
  • HIST 369 – Darwinism: The Evolutionary Perspective (3) (SS)
  • HIST 387 – Medicine and Health Care in China (3) (C)
  • HIST 445 – History of Science to 1700 (3) (SS; WI)
  • HIST 446 – History of Science Since 1700 (3) (SS; WI)
  • HIST 450 / SOCY 457 – Social History of American Medicine (3)
  • MATH 432 – History of Mathematics (3) (WI)
  • PBHL 350 – Public Health Ethics (3)
  • PBHL 357 – History of Public Health in the United States (3) (AH)
  • PBHL 358 / PHIL 358 – Bioethics (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 352 – Ethics of AI and Other Technology (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 354 – Ethics, Animals, and the Environment (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 363 – Video Game Ethics (3)
  • PHIL 372 – Philosophy of Science (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 378 – Philosophy of AI (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 394 – Philosophy of Biology (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 395 – Philosophy of Physics (3) (AH)
  • PHIL 456 – Justice and Climate Change (3) (WI)
  • PHIL 472 – Advanced Topics in the Philosophy of Science (3)
  • PHIL 477 – Minds, Machines, and Logic (3) (WI)
  • PHIL 478 – Philosophy and Evolution (3) (WI)
  • PHYS 333 – Applied Physics in Archaeology and Art (3) (S)
  • POLI 452 – Politics of Health (3)
  • SOCY 351 – Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine (3)
  • SOCY 352 – Issues in Health Care (3) (SS)
  • SOCY 361 – Science and Society (3)

**Course is in the approval process.

If you would like to add a course in the approval process to your degree audit, please consult Blake Francis.

Updated 10/23/26