Welcome to Centre for Society, Technology and Values
The Centre for Society, Technology and Values (CSTV) is a uniquely UWaterloo interdisciplinary centre that sets out to explain and examine social aspects of technology and technological change.
CSTV was established in 1984 as an interdisciplinary teaching and research unit. Since 1991, it has been connected with the Department of Systems Design Engineering.
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STV 302: Information Technology & Society—Winter 2023!
What is information technology? How did it get this way? What is it doing for us, or not?
Join your fellow students in STV 302 in Winter 2023 to discuss and explore!
The course is being taught by Cosmin Munteanu, the New Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Healthy Aging.
STV 305: Technology, Society and the Modern City—Winter 2023!
How did the technology of modern city life arise? How does it all fit together? What is to come?
Join your fellow students in STV 305 in Winter 2023 to discuss and explore!
Prereq: Level 3A or later, or a previous STV course, or permission of the instructor: Cameron Shelley (cshelley@uwaterloo.ca).
STV 306: Biotechnology & Society coming this fall!
What are the social implications of the ability to manipulate genes? Join your fellow students in STV 306 in Fall 2022 to discuss and explore!
Prereq: Level 3A or later, or a previous STV course, or permission of the instructor: Cameron Shelley (cshelley@uwaterloo.ca).