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Rensselaer Catalog 2008-2009 [Archived Catalog]

Design, Innovation and Society

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First Year

Fall

  • STSS 1962 Design, Innovation & Society Credit Hours: 4
  • H&SS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring

  • H&SS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4

Second Year

Fall

  • H&SS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Science Core Elective (Biology core) Credit Hours: 4
  • Technical Option Credit Hours: 4
(See Footnote 2 below)

Spring

  • Elective Credit Hours: 4

          (See footnote 1 below)

 

  • STSS 4xxx Advanced Option Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 3 below)
  • Science Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Technical Option Credit Hours: 4  

 

(See footnote 2 below)

  


Third Year

Fall

  • STSS 4xxx STS Advanced Option Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 3 below)
  • H&SS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Technical Option Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 2 below)

Spring

  • ENGR 496x/STSH 496x PDI Studio VI Credit Hours: 4
  • Science Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • H&SS Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Technical Option Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 2 below)

Fourth Year

Fall

  • Capstone Design Studio Credit Hours: 4
(See footnote 4 below)
  • Science Core Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Elective Credit Hours: 4

Spring

  • Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • Elective Credit Hours: 4
  • H&SS Core ElectiveH Credit Hours: 4

Footnotes

  1. Students are advised, but not requred, to pursue a design-oriented course during this semester.
  2. The technical option can be counted toward the requirements of a dual major degree, or it can be four courses in a single field that are all taken for a grade, of which two are at the 4000 level. H&SS tecnical option sequences may be approved by the adviser.
  3. Candidate courses include STSS 4350, STSS 4960, STSH 4230, STSS 4110, STSS 4250, STSS 4310, STSS 4560, and STSS 4650.
  4. The STS Senior Project can be combined with the Capstone Design Studio to make an eight-credit capstone studio project. The Capstone Design Studio may be taken as an independent course with an STS faculty member of an approved design studio.

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