MA STS
Master in Science and Technology Studies
Established in 2009 and taught exclusively in English, each year the four semester research-oriented Science and Technology Studies (STS) programme selects an international cohort of 25 students. It is department policy to accept students from all disciplinary backgrounds, and new guest professors are invited each semester to teach courses in the department.
Science, technology, and innovation shape modern life in countless ways. Some of these are perceived as positive, others are deeply controversial. Policy, corporations, media and other social actors in turn influence how knowledge and technologies are produced. Science and technology studies analyzes these interactions, and aims to foster critical and reflexive debates on the relation of science, technology and society.
There are also Complementary Study Programmes (Minors) for several programs of study (in German).