Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
OPEN YOUR MIND, THINK CRITICALLY, GROW
A Liberal Arts Education for Digital Pioneers
Digital Pioneers innovate and strive to make a positive difference with their work. And that’s why our Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program is so important.
We believe that all students should think about the social and political context and impact of their work. STS encourages critical thinking at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, the arts, economics, law, and science.
STS provides you with a space to think critically about all the important questions of our time.
If you want to change the world, try understanding it first.Gyps
The STS Curriculum
STS teaches you essential skills like writing, presentation, logic, and self-organization. It also invites you to think for yourself, to reflect on society, politics, and the impact of technology, so that you can do something wonderful with all the diverse cultural expressions – new and old – that enrich our world. We will read Plato and Nietzsche, the Hacker Manifesto and the Halloween Documents, European Privacy Laws and Shakespeare.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.Alan Kay
Leave your comfort zone
Our STS program provides all students with the opportunity to explore great ideas and express themselves beyond their field of study.
Take courses in history or philosophy, stage performance or creative writing, self-organization or other cultures – or even create your own STS project!
STS reinvents old humanist education for the digital age.
Who is to blame, if a self-driving car kills somebody?
Whether you use C++ or C# is also a political question. Can UI-design be inherently evil? Would you work for a company that uses its customers’ psychology against them?
Learn about the past, the future, and other cultures, about economics and sociology. And don’t forget to dance: go leave our little bubble from time to time and investigate the city, the country, and the world you live in.
The Team
Fabian Geier
Head of STS
Sebastian Rosengrün
Senior Lecturer