Although guaranteed admission to Albany Law School is only available to selected first-year students, conditional admission is available to students accepted by Rensselaer who meet specified achievement levels in their undergraduate program. Accelerated Law students have also applied successfully to such law schools as Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, and the University of Virginia for early admission. The STS Department provides whatever assistance it can for such students. Students may apply to the program on completion of their sophomore year. A minor generally consists of four related courses, of which at least two must be 400-level courses, in a specialized area of study.
More information is available from the departmental office.
Courses Science and technology studies course descriptions are in the back of this catalog under the numbers 49 and 51. Anthropology Anthropology is the study of the origins, development, and cultures of the human species. The way things are now is a consequence of the way things have developed in the past. The disciplined study of the past through written records and artifacts, as well as its description by witnesses, commentators, and critics, has long been part of the intellectual foundation of an educated person. The unfolding of history sometimes confounds the expectations of both logic and predictive science, demonstrating the depth and complexity of human affairs and providing a valuable insight otherwise lacking in a curriculum of specialized, present-oriented branches of science and engineering.