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Classes
STS 1123
Course Description
This seminar explores the ways in which Technology and Society shape one another and provides the opportunity to write extensively about this mutual shaping. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: The Politics of Sound
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Lumumba-Kasongo, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
STS 1126
Course Description
This seminar explores the ways in which Science and Society shape one another and provides the opportunity to write extensively about this mutual shaping. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Lives on Trial: Histories of Biomedicine
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Ekinci, M
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
STS 1127
Course Description
Hurricanes. Guns. Ebola. Financial meltdowns. Contaminated food. Climate change. Cyber warfare. We live in a hazardous world of uncertainty, surrounded by claims about risks, some sounding the alarm, some ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
STS 1201
Course Description
This course investigates the ethical, legal, and social foundations of information. Through lectures, readings, and independent projects, the class will learn to analyze and engage key challenges ranging ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: INFO 1200
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Phillips Hall 101
Instructors
Jackson, S
STS 1941
Course Description
How did the approaches to knowledge of nature that developed in medieval and early-modern Europe create an enterprise that associated the practical manipulation of nature with scientific truth? This course ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 1941, HIST 1941
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Dear, P
STS 2011
Course Description
This course introduces some central ideas in the field of S&TS. It is aimed at students from any background who are challenged to think more critically about what counts as scientific knowledge and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SOC 2100
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Slayton, R
STS 2061
Course Description
Politicians, scientists, and citizens worldwide face many environmental issues today, but they are neither simple nor straightforward. Moreover, there are many ways to understand how we have, do, and could ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2061, PHIL 2460
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Additional Information
First-Year students not permitted to enroll into this course.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Pritchard, S
STS 2071
Course Description
This course offers an introductory survey of the history of medicine (principally in Europe and the United States) from classical antiquity to the early twentieth century. Using a combination of both primary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2071, HIST 2710
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Baker Laboratory 119
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Seth, S
STS 2231
Course Description
In this seminar, we will explore the role of energy as a force in the driving of history. With the widespread harnessing of fossil fuels in the nineteenth century as our pivot point, we will consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2131
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Seow, V
STS 2451
Course Description
Bioethics is the study of ethical problems brought about by advances in the medical field. Questions we'll discuss may include: Is it morally permissible to advance a patient's death, at his or her request, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2455
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Markovits, J
STS 2751
Course Description
As technologies and algorithms that can autonomously take in information, make decisions, and act on those decisions become more and more prevalent, questions arise as to the moral and ethical aspects ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECE 2750, ENGRG 2750, INFO 2750
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Snee Hall Geological Sci 1120
Instructors
Doing, P
STS 2761
Course Description
Traffic lights, elevators, and recycling bins seem rather boring and irrelevant. Yet, while not usually on our minds when thinking about governance and regulation, these seemingly mundane technologies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 2760
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Kennedy Hall 105
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
STS 2871
Course Description
Evolution is the central concept in biology. This course examines evolution as a science and places it in an historical context. Lectures focus on descent with modification, the nature of natural selection, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BIOEE 2070
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Malott Hall 251
Instructors
Graffin, G
Harrison, R
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Additional Information
Intended for students with no background in college biology. May not be taken for credit after BIOEE 1780 Does not meet evolutionary biology requirement for biological sciences major.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Plant Science Building G37
Instructors
Graffin, G
Harrison, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Comstock Hall-Academic II B108
Instructors
Graffin, G
Harrison, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Comstock Hall-Academic II B108
Instructors
Graffin, G
Harrison, R
STS 2921
Course Description
Explores the history of information technology from the 1830s to the present by considering the technical and social history of telecommunications (telegraph and the telephone), radio, television, computers, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2980, ECE 2980, ENGRG 2980, HIST 2920, INFO 2921
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Baker Laboratory 335
Instructors
Kline, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Hollister Hall 372
Instructors
Kline, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Hollister Hall 362
Instructors
Kline, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Hollister Hall 368
Instructors
Kline, R
STS 3011
Course Description
Biology and biotechnology are major influences on modern life. In addition, socio-political and historical conditions have shaped biological research and its applications in medicine, agriculture, environmental ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 3011
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Johnson, A
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Additional Information
First-Year students not admitted into course.
STS 3020
Course Description
How to write about science, technology, and medicine for the media. Writing assignments focus on writing news for web sites, blogs, magazines, and other media. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: COMM 3020
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Kennedy Hall 211
Instructors
Porticella, N
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Additional Information
Not open to freshmen. Prerequisite: college-level writing course.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Kennedy Hall 211
Instructors
Porticella, N
STS 3121
Course Description
Sound as a medium has been neglected not only in the sciences but also in social sciences and humanities. We will engage with new emerging work in sound studies by addressing specific locations and activities ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3432
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Comstock Hall-Academic II B106
Instructors
Pinch, T
STS 3311
Course Description
Environmental governance is defined as the assemblage of institutions that regulate society-nature interactions and shape environmental outcomes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Institutions, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 3311, DSOC 3311, NTRES 3311
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Caldwell Hall 100
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: juniors, seniors, or by permission of instructor.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Fernow Hall G24
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Warren Hall 101
Instructors
Wolf, S
STS 3460
Course Description
The body is often taken for granted as the material substrate for culture -- its physicality the purview of science and its meaning the purview of social studies. This course examines a range of texts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3465, BSOC 3460
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Langwick, S
STS 3651
Course Description
Psychoanalysis considers the human being not as an object of treatment, but as a subject who is called upon to elaborate an unconscious knowledge about what is disrupting her life, through analysis of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3781, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
McNulty, T
STS 3811
Course Description
This course will cover various topics in the philosophy of science. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 3810
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Boyd, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 102
Instructors
Boyd, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Boyd, R
STS 3911
Course Description
This course reviews the changing political relations between science, technology, and the state in America from 1960 to the present. It focuses on policy choices involving science and technology in different ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3911, GOVT 3091
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
STS 3991
Course Description
More information and applications available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details
STS 4122
Course Description
The power of a name is sometimes as great as that of an idea. This course will study how Darwin became, then and now, an icon rather than just a Victorian naturalist. We will look at writings of Darwin ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4122, HIST 4122
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Dear, P
STS 4231
Course Description
Why are some technologies such as cars and computers associated with men and masculinity? How did vacuums and sewing machines become gendered female? How do technological artifacts and systems constitute, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 4231, HIST 4231
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 4303
Course Description
Biotechnology is a broad term for the tools used to alter living organisms for human purposes. Genetic engineering (recombinant DNA technology) is one class of methods used in biotechnology. Private sector ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4303, GOVT 4303, IARD 4303, PLSCS 4303
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Warren Hall 401
Instructors
Davidson Evanega, S
Davies, P
Herring, R
Hobbs, P
Thies, J
STS 4501
Course Description
This seminar investigates some of the university's old and often neglected teaching collections. Focus is on those collections that consist of replicas (e.g. musical instruments, Rau plow collection, plaster ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4500, CLASS 4500, MUSIC 4336, SHUM 4500
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
STS 4631
Course Description
This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4639, CLASS 7639, COML 4639, COML 6639, STS 7631
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
Roby, C
STS 4951
Course Description
Explores how the human and social sciences have provided the knowledge and categories we use to make sense of human beings and their behavior. Looking across a range of disciplines-including sociology, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
STS 4991
Course Description
Students must register for 4 credits each semester (4991-4992) for a total of 8 credits. After the first semester, students receive a letter grade of "R"; a letter grade for both semesters is submitted ... view course details
STS 6031
Course Description
Hacktivism, cyber-crime, cyber-espionage, and cyber-war have become worrisome for individuals, corporations, and nation-states. This course analyses cyber conflict as technopolitics, showing how the specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Slayton, R
STS 6261
Course Description
A seminar on the global historiography of technology. Typical topics include industrialization; military science and technology; science and engineering in corporate settings; engineering as a profession; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6190
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Johnson, A
STS 6311
Course Description
In this Graduate seminar we will discuss the nature, politics and basic assumptions underlying qualitative research. We will examine a selection of qualitative methods ranging from interviewing, oral history, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 6310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
STS 6321
Course Description
Rather than analyze the social impact of technology upon society, this course investigates how society gets inside technology. In other words, is it possible that the very design of technologies embody ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 6320
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Pinch, T
STS 6460
Course Description
This course examines a range of texts that treat the body as the subject and object of cultural, technological, political, and ethical processes. Students investigate the cultivation of physical and social ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 6465, BSOC 6460
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall B65
Instructors
Langwick, S
STS 6811
Course Description
Advanced discussion of some problem or problems in the philosophy of science. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 6810
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Section Topic
Topic: Philosophical Naturalism and Its Critics
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 162
Instructors
Boyd, R
STS 6991
Course Description
Applications and information are available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details
STS 7111
Course Description
Provides students with a foundation in the field of science and technology studies. Using classic works as well as contemporary exemplars, seminar participants chart the terrain of this new field. Topics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Lewenstein, B
Ziewitz, M
STS 7631
Course Description
This course explores the organization of cultural and scientific knowledge in the form of so-called "encyclopedias", beginning with Pliny the Elder's Natural History and tracing its development in later ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4639, CLASS 7639, COML 4639, COML 6639, STS 4631
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Credits and Grading Basis
3-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Platt, V
Roby, C