The Science and Society Program will enable students to analyze the multidisciplinary facets of scientific research and its applications, by examining not only their scientific components, but also their ethical, cultural and historical dimensions. Students must therefore have a solid introduction to the Natural Sciences as well as significant course work in relevant areas within the Social Sciences and Humanities. This program will be open to students strongly interested in the relations between science and society, and willing to commit to a broad program of study encompassing courses in all three divisions. Science and Society Scholars will be selected by a faculty committee. Applicants are primarily juniors, although sophomores may apply.
Applications consist of a transcript, a personal statement, and a proposed program of study.
The selection of these courses may be tailored to fulfill admission requirements for medical school, graduate school in the sciences, science education or public policy. A complement of relevant courses from all three divisions that defines the specific plan of study. Each Science and Society Scholar is expected to complete a research project or internship. Typically this internship will occur in the summer after the junior year, or during the first semester of senior year. Each student will produce a senior paper for the program which expands significantly on what they have learned, through their own fieldwork and advanced course work.