ENGR 184Humanities-Informed Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
In popular imagination, science and technology are often viewed as fields of knowledge production critical to social progress and a cooperative future. This optimistic portrayal of technological advancement is also prominently in internal discourses amongst scientists, industry leaders, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students. Yet a growing body of research, investigation, and first-person counts highlight varying ways modern science, technology, and engineering industries contribute to the degradation of changing environments, and exploit and harm global low-income and marginalized populations. Students learn critical frameworks—formulated through queer, radical feminist, and black analyses of science and technology studies—that destabilize sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodied logics and hierarchies used to challenge and rethink knowledge production.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.