STV Diploma
The STV Diploma will be available beginning Fall 2025. The STV Option was removed from the undergraduate calendar in 2024-25, but any student who first enrolled before then may still complete it.)
Description
A student who completes the Diploma will have demonstrated competence in a set of skills:
- the ability to view the role of technology in society from a variety of critical perspectives;
- the ability to analyze technology-society problems and solutions, in collaboration with peers from other academic programs;
- the ability to communicate views on society-technology interactions effectively, both orally and in written form.
STV courses and the STV Diploma support the University’s aim to produce graduates from all faculties who are more fully aware of the complex relationships that technology has with contemporary society. STV Diploma students will have an analytical skillset to allow them to thrive in the new AI- and technology-driven environment of the 21st century.
Requirements
Fundamentals
Complete 2 of the following:
Critical Theory and Ethics
Complete 1 of the following:
- BME381 - Biomedical Engineering Ethics (0.50)
- CIVE491 - Engineering Law and Ethics (0.50)
- ENGL320 - History and Theory of Pre-Internet Media (0.50)
- ENVE391 - Law and Ethics for Environmental and Geological Engineers (0.50)
- GEOE391 - Law and Ethics for Environmental and Geological Engineers (0.50)
- ENVS105 - Environmental Sustainability and Ethics (0.50)
- GBDA306 - Ethics and Values in Design (0.50)
- PHIL215 - Professional and Business Ethics (0.50)
- PHIL224 - Environmental Ethics (0.50)
- PHIL226 - Biomedical Ethics (0.50)
- PHIL228 - Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (0.50)
- PHIL259 - Philosophy of Technology (0.50)
- PHIL315 - Ethics and the Engineering Profession (0.50)
- SOC232 - Technology and Social Change (0.50)
- SOC246 - Mass Communication (0.50)
- STV302 - Information Technology and Society (0.50)
- STV304 - Technology in Canadian Society (0.50)
- STV305 - Technology, Society and the Modern City (0.50)
- STV306 - Biotechnology and Society (0.50)
Critical Thinking: Issues and Applications
Complete 1 of the following:
- AE101 - History of the Built Environment (0.50)
- ANTH106 - Technologies of Being Human (0.50)
- ANTH303 - Anthropology of Digital Media (0.50)
- ARCH142 - Introduction to Cultural History (0.50)
- CS492 - The Social Implications of Computing (0.50)
- ECE458 - Computer Security (0.50)
- ENGL108D - Digital Lives (0.50)
- ENGL208B - Science Fiction (0.50)
- ENGL294 - Introduction to Critical Game Studies (0.50)
- ENGL295 - Social Media (0.50)
- ERS215 - Environmental and Sustainability Assessment 1 (0.50)
- ERS270 - Introduction to Sustainable Agroecosystems (0.50)
- ERS294 - Spirituality, Religion, and Ecology (0.50)
- ERS372 - First Nations and the Environment (0.50)
- GBDA303 - Data and Society (0.50)
- HIST203 - Methods of Public History (0.50)
- HIST216 - From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: A (Long) History of the Internet (0.50)
- INDEV262 - Introduction to Global Emerging Cities (0.50)
- INTEG121 - Collaboration, Design Thinking, and Problem Solving (0.50)
- LS213 - Surveillance Studies (0.50)
- LS329 - Security and Governance (0.50)
- MSE442 - Impact of Information Systems on Organizations and Society (0.50)
- NE109 - Societal and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology (0.50)
- PACS201 - Roots of Conflict, Violence, and Peace (0.50)
- PACS315 - Engineering and Peace (0.50)
- RCS285 - Spirituality, Religion, and Ecology (0.50)
- SCI200 - Energy - Its Development, Use, and Issues (0.50)
- SCI252 - Quantum Mechanics for Everyone (0.50)
- SCI267 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (0.50)
- SOC213 - Surveillance Studies (0.50)
- SOC329 - Security and Governance (0.50)
- SYDE261 - Design, Systems, and Society (0.50)
Questions?
Contact the Director of CSTV, Scott Campbell.