SOC GEN 174What's Wrong with Science?
Society and Genetics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of tangled issues linking science to contemporary post truth crisis. Drawing on ideas and frameworks from sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political psychology, and science and technology studies, consideration of range of materials including theoretical and empirical academic texts as well as commentaries and documents speaking to current events. Consideration of demarcation of science from pseudoscience, conditions turning scientific disagreement into public controversy, science’s relationship to different publics and political cultures, crises of trust in contemporary science and efforts to reconstruct scientific integrity, and weaponization of science and pseudoscience in misinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories. Through engaging these complex matters, students become better armed to understand and advance productive relationships between science and political life.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 105A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
SOC GEN 174
- SOC GEN 105AWays of Knowing in Life and Human Sciences
- SOC GEN 5Integrative Approaches to Human Biology and Society
- SOC GEN M71ABiotechnology and Society
- SOC GEN M72ASex from Biology to Gendered Society
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.