Courses Offered

LIST OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY MINOR COURSES OFFERED IN AY2024/2025
(courses for Semester 2 are subjected to changes)
COURSE CODE/TITLE |
SEM 1
AY 24/25 |
SEM 2
AY 24/25 |
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Essential Courses | ||
HY2251 From the Wheel to the Web | ||
SC3211 Science, Technology and Society | ![]() |
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PH2223 Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology | ||
PH2201 Introduction to Philosophy of Science (For Cohort 2021 and after) | ![]() |
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Level-1000 Courses | ||
GEC1000/GEH1001 Globalisation and New Media | ||
GEC1011/GEH1043 Microbes which Changed Human History | ![]() |
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GEC1012/GEH1044 Understanding Globalisation | ||
GEC1016/GEH1050 Plants and Society | ![]() |
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GEH1018 A Brief History of Science | ![]() |
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GEI1000/GET1031 Computational Thinking | ![]() |
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GEI1002/GET1030 Computers and the Humanities | ![]() |
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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 |
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GEM1536 or GET1020 or GEX1007 Darwin and Evolution* |
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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 | ![]() |
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GET1010 or GEM2502 Modes of Invention | ||
GEX1011 or GET1025 or PH2225/GEK2041 Science Fiction and Philosophy*** | ![]() |
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HS1501 Artificial Intelligence and Society | ![]() |
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HS1502 Conceptual Introduction to Machine Learning | ![]() |
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IT1244 Artificial Intelligence: Technology and Impact | ![]() |
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NM1101E Communications, New Media and Society | ![]() |
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Level-2000 Courses | ||
HS2914 How to Get Humans and Machines to Talk to Each Other |
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HSI2008 A Brief History of Science & Why Things Often Go Wrong | ![]() |
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HSI2012 From Ancient Cosmologies to Big Bang | ![]() |
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HSI2014 Science, Medical Technology and Society |
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HY2235 or GEK2008 Environmental History |
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HY2251 From the Wheel to the Web | ||
NM2101 Theories of Communications and New Media |
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NM2102 Communications and New Media Research (To Cohort 2012 only) | ||
NM2209 Social Psychology of New Media |
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NSS2001% Science and Society |
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PH2201 or GEM2025 Introduction to Philosophy of Science |
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PH2216 or GEK2031 Environmental Philosophy | ||
PH2217 or GEK2032 Computerisation and Ethics | ||
PH2223 or GEK2037 Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology | ||
SC2211 Medical Sociology |
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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 |
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GE3231 Natural Hazards | ||
HY3223 Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific | ![]() |
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HY3252 From Tropical Medicine to Bioscience | ||
NM3202 Governance and New Media | ||
NM3210 Cybercrime and Society | ||
PH3213 Knowledge, Modernity, and Global Change | ||
SC3211 Science, Technology and Society | ![]() |
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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: 15 November 2024
ACADEMIC CONVENOR
Assoc Prof John Holbo