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.
News
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).
Workshop: Canada and the abolition of nuclear weapons
Project Ploughshares is hosting a free half-day interactive virtual workshop on Canada, the growing nuclear threat, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
There are nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons active today. Each presents an existential, yet preventable, risk. Now is the time for decisive Canadian action towards nuclear abolition.
Thursday June 9, 2022 @ 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST (via Zoom).
Courses for Fall 2022
The STV courses to be offered in the Fall 2022 term are: