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Classes
STS 1117
Course Description
The seminar will explore the history of science, technology, and society in the United States during the Cold War. Students will write about such themes as government funding, promotion, and regulation ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Kline, R
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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(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: What is Mathematics?
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Abrams, 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
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Exploring S&TS through Science Fiction
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Tavakoli, 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 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Slayton, R
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- R Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Slayton, R
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- R McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Slayton, R
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- R Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Slayton, R
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- R Rockefeller Hall 185
Instructors
Slayton, R
STS 2051
Course Description
In today's rapidly changing world of health and medicine, complex ethical issues arise in many contexts from the private, interpersonal interactions between doctor and patient to the broad, mass-mediated ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2051
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
First-Year students not admitted into course.
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Stimson Hall 119
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Seth, S
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- R Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Seth, S
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 301
Instructors
Seth, S
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Seth, S
STS 2381
Course Description
In 1919, journalist John Reed published Ten Days That Shook the World about the 1917 Russian Revolution. Some events are so transformative, Reed argued, they change the course of history. This class examines ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2881
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Pritchard, S
STS 2561
Course Description
An exploration of processes of change in medicine in China. Focuses on key transitions, such as the emergence of canonical medicine, of Daoist approaches to healing and longevity, of Buddhist medicine ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2262, BSOC 2561, CAPS 2262, HIST 2562
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 202
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
STS 2641
Course Description
In this course we will study the technologies – aqueducts, automata, catapults, concrete and more – that allowed the Roman Empire to prosper and expand. Technical and historical background will accompany ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2641, CLASS 2641
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Roby, C
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Roby, C
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- F Uris Hall G44
Instructors
Roby, C
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Hollister Hall B14
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 217
Instructors
Allmon, W
Graffin, G
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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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Meeting Pattern
- M Kennedy Hall 103
Instructors
Allmon, W
Graffin, G
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Comstock Hall-Academic II B108
Instructors
Allmon, W
Graffin, G
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Comstock Hall-Academic II B108
Instructors
Allmon, W
Graffin, G
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(Letter grades only)
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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.
Department Consent Required (Add)
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Kennedy Hall 101
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 Mann Library B30B
Instructors
Porticella, N
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Caldwell Hall 100
Instructors
Ghosh, R
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: juniors, seniors, or by permission of instructor.
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- W Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Ghosh, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Ghosh, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Ghosh, R
STS 3511
Course Description
Media make things move. Ships transport goods, cars carry passengers, devices transmit information. While origins and destinations often seem the most significant, modern media and cultural mobility also ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3112, GERST 3511, PMA 3511
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Born, E
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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3781, COML 6783, FGSS 3651, FREN 3560, FREN 6561, GERST 3561, ROMS 3560
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 202
Instructors
McNulty, T
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 262
Instructors
McNulty, T
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- F Klarman Hall KG42
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall 122
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 103
Instructors
Boyd, R
STS 3991
Course Description
More information and applications available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details
STS 4120
Course Description
Modern science is often seen as having been originally developed in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Copernicus, who set the Earth in motion around the sun in the early 16th century, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4121, HIST 4120
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Dear, P
STS 4131
Course Description
One of the most troubling realizations of the 20th century has been the extent to which human activities have transformed the environment on a global scale. The rapid growth of human population and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4131, HIST 4131
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 4240
Course Description
The social impact of technologies is typically thought about fairly late, if ever, in the design process. Indeed, it can be difficult at design time to predict what effects technologies will have. Nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: INFO 4240
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Olin Hall 255
Instructors
Sengers, P
STS 4291
Course Description
This course examines scientific controversies that become political. Why does some science become politicized rather than normalized and routinized? How do societies deal with collective uncertainty and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4291, GOVT 4291
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall B06
Instructors
Herring, R
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Additional Information
Government seniors and juniors given preference.
STS 4331
Course Description
An introduction to current debates about the role played by science and technology in the history of globalization, international relations, and transnationalism. Covers the period 1600 to the present ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
STS 4411
Course Description
This senior seminar offers an intensive research and reading experience in the philosophy of medicine, considering, in particular, questions about what physicians know, how that knowledge informs current ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4411, PHIL 2961
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 102
Instructors
Johnson, A
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 4691
Course Description
Multidisciplinary course dealing with the social and environmental impact of food production in the United States and developing countries. Agroecosystems of various kinds are analyzed from biological, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BIOEE 4690, BSOC 4691
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Corson-Mudd A409
Instructors
Power, A
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: introductory ecology course or permission of instructor. Limited to 20 students.
STS 4871
Course Description
If you want to learn geology, engineering, psychology, nutrition, religion, economics, and how to write an epic poem, you go scurrying to widespread corners of the university. Yet in the English Enlightenment, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4871, ENGL 4370
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Goldstein, A
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4991
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
STS 6231
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar introduces the fields of literature and science studies, with a particular focus on early modern natural history and philosophy. How did early moderns produce authoritative ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 6230
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 234
Instructors
Mann, J
Seth, S
STS 6301
Course Description
Sociologist C. Wright Mills challenged his readers to develop their "sociological imagination" to understand the social and historical forces at work in seemingly individual events, such as the receipt ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Prentice, R
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Philosophical Naturalism
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Boyd, R
STS 6991
Course Description
Applications and information are available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details
STS 7001
Course Description
Advanced discussion of some problem or problems in Science Studies and the Politics of Science. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
STS 7003
Course Description
Advanced discussion of some problem or problems in the Cultural History of Technology. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 7000
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Kline, R
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Slayton, R
Ziewitz, M