| SOSC 4B01 Risk and Society 0.50 Credit(s) Academic Course |
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| Prerequisite: 10.0 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits) and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal arts & sciences (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM). |
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| Students will be introduced to theories and methods used in the social sciences for studying the role of “risk perception” in constructing visions about our common future. The course begins with an examination of how a range of social responses to risk in history have had an effect on the interconnectedness of individuals, social life, economic advancement, and the environment. We then move on to consider a number of contemporary critical debates concerning complexity in living systems, the Anthropocene, post-sustainability, existential risk, and transhumanism. |
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| Anti-requisite: Students who have taken SOSC 3B90: Special Topic in Social Science: Risk and Society in 2005-2006 may not take this course for further credit. |
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| Notes: Description change 2012-13. |
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| Course was last updated May 2, 2012 - 4:57 PM | |