LIST OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY MINOR COURSES OFFERED IN AY2025/2026
(courses for Semester 2 are subjected to changes)

COURSE CODE/TITLE	SEM 1 AY 25/26	SEM 2 AY 25/26
Essential Courses
HY2251 From the Wheel to the Web
SC3211 Science, Technology and Society
PH2223 Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology
PH2201 Introduction to Philosophy of Science (For Cohort 2021 and after)
Level-1000 Courses
GEC1000/GEH1001 Globalisation and New Media
GEC1011/GEH1043 Microbes which Changed Human History
GEC1012/GEH1044 Understanding Globalisation
GEC1016/GEH1050 Plants and Society
GEH1018 A Brief History of Science
GEI1000/GET1031 Computational Thinking
GEI1002/GET1030 Computers and the Humanities
GEK1013 or GEH1021 Rethinking Technology, Organisations and People
GEK1046 Introduction to Cultural Studies
GEK1501 Information Technology and Us
GEK1502 Food Security and Safety
GEK1506 Heavenly Mathematics: Cultural Astronomy
GEK1513 Wireless Communications - Past, Present and Future
GEK1522 or GEH1025 Global Environmental Issues
GEK1527 or LSM1302 Genes and Society
GEK1536 or GEH1017 Computation and Machine: Ancient and Modern
GEK1539 or GEH1018 A Brief History of Science
GEM1536 or GET1020 or GEX1007 Darwin and Evolution*
GEH1059 Living in a Nuclear World (Note: Defunct with effect from Sem 2 AY2023-24)
GEC1009 or GEH1026 or GEK2506 Drugs and Society**
GESS1002/GES1004 The Biophysical Environment of Singapore
GET1010 or GEM2502 Modes of Invention
GEX1011 or GET1025 or PH2225/GEK2041 Science Fiction and Philosophy***
HS1501 Artificial Intelligence and Society
HS1502 Conceptual Introduction to Machine Learning
IT1244 Artificial Intelligence: Technology and Impact
NM1101E Communications, New Media and Society
Level-2000 Courses
HS2914 How to Get Humans and Machines to Talk to Each Other
HSI2008 A Brief History of Science & Why Things Often Go Wrong
HSI2012 From Ancient Cosmologies to Big Bang
HSI2014 Science, Medical Technology and Society
HY2235 or GEK2008 Environmental History
HY2251 From the Wheel to the Web
NM2101 Theories of Communications and New Media
NM2102 Communications and New Media Research (To Cohort 2012 only)
NM2209 Social Psychology of New Media
NSS2001% Science and Society
PH2201 or GEM2025 Introduction to Philosophy of Science
PH2216 or GEK2031 Environmental Philosophy
PH2217 or GEK2032 Computerisation and Ethics
PH2223 or GEK2037 Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology
SC2211 Medical Sociology
SC2221 Environment and Society
SN2251 The Information Revolution in India
PH2226 Concept of Nature in Inquiry
GEM2902 Climate Change
SSU2000 Biomedicine and Singapore Society
GEK2041 Science Fiction and Philosophy
Level-3000 Courses
AN3209 Anthropology of Technology
GE3231 Natural Hazards
HY3223 Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific
HY3252 From Tropical Medicine to Bioscience
HY3261 Historicizing Science, Technology and Society
NM3202 Governance and New Media
NM3210 Cybercrime and Society
PH3213 Knowledge, Modernity, and Global Change
SC3211 Science, Technology and Society
SC3218 Inquiry in Health and Society
SE3218 Industrialising Singapore and Southeast Asia
JS3226 Japan: The Green Nation?
Level-4000 Courses
NM4225 Critical Interaction Design (5 Units) (For Cohort 2016 to 2020) (Note: Defunct with effect from Sem 1 AY2022-23)

 

*GET1020 for cohort 2020 and before; GEX1007 for cohort 2021 and after

**GEH1026 for cohort 2020 and before; GEC1009 for cohort 2021 and after

***GET1025 for cohort 2020 and before; GEX1011 for cohort 2021 and after

****Subject to changes and availability

 

Last updated: 10 November 2025