The following requirements are in addition to, or further elaborate upon, those requirements outlined in the Student Services section of this Web site.

Science Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study, and the cluster curriculum is designed around the expectation that students from a range of disciplines benefit from interdisciplinary exchange in their course work and training. Students admitted through the cluster initiative take three courses, ordinarily one in each of the three areas listed below, sometime during their first two years of study. But it is important to emphasize that all students work with their departmental advisors and cluster advisor to map out a plan of study that best suits their intellectual interests. The three main areas of study are:

1. Historical study of science, medicine, and technology, encompassing a variety of courses in Art History, History, Economics, and the Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences.
2. Social study of science, medicine, technology, encompassing a variety of courses in Communication Studies, Human Development and Social Policy, and Sociology.
3. Study of the symbolic dimensions and representational practices of science, medicine, and technology, encompassing a variety of courses in Art History, Communication Studies, English, German, Radio TV Film, and Spanish-Portuguese.

Students also attend the colloquium speaker series organized by the Science in Human Culture program and which meets at lunch time approximately every other Friday during the quarter. For lists of up-coming and recent speakers, see www.shc.northwestern.edu/talks0708.htm They also attend the quarterly reading group sponsored by SHC, which brings together faculty and students to discuss current work in the field.