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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.
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Classes
STS 1101
Course Description
From global warming to surveillance of citizens to health-care reform, issues in science, technology, and medicine also are political issues. This course uses contemporary scientific controversies to explore ... view course details
Regular Academic 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
- TR Warren Hall 101
Instructors
Roebuck, C
STS 1113
Course Description
During Spring 2017, headlines across multiple media announced: "Thousands Rally in DC for March for Science;" "March for Science: Crowds Join International Global Earth Day Protests." But why are people ... 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
- MW Uris Hall 394
Instructors
Roebuck, C
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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 1116
Course Description
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) lived during an extraordinary period in global history. In Darwin's time, imperial politics combined with the rise of industrial capitalism to produce a world order dominated ... 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
- TR Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
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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 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(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: How to Build a Scientist
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 128
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 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: Stories of (Agri)Culture
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Harrison, 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.
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Scientific Subject: Intersectional Feminist
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Avron, L
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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 1942
Course Description
What is modern science? And how did it get that way? This course examines the emergence of the dominant scientific worldview inherited by the 21st century, to trace how it, and its associated institutional ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 1942, HIST 1942
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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 Morrill Hall 106
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 Baker Laboratory 135
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Slayton, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 160
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 Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 187
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 189
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 187
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 189
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 110
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 183
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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 185
Instructors
Prentice, R
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 231
Instructors
Seth, 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
- R White Hall 110
Instructors
Seth, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 2131
Course Description
Science fiction is not merely a literary genre but a whole way of being, thinking, and acting in the modern world. This course explores classic and contemporary science fiction from Frankenstein to The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2131, COML 2035, ENGL 2035
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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 Phillips Hall 219
Instructors
Doing, P
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 Riley-Robb Hall 105
Instructors
Searle, J
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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 Riley-Robb Hall 105
Instructors
Searle, J
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Phillips Hall 203
Instructors
Kline, R
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Phillips Hall 203
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Lynch, M
Ratcliff, J
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Additional Information
First-Year students not admitted into course.
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, DSOC 6320, NTRES 3311, NTRES 6310
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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
Wolf, S
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: juniors, seniors, or by permission of instructor.
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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 G24
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Wolf, S
STS 3991
Course Description
More information about independent study available in 303 Morrill 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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Dear, P
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 Ives Hall 305
Instructors
Sengers, P
STS 4301
Course Description
In this course we will discuss how society, culture and politics shape technological artifacts and the natural and built environment, such as bridges, roads, and landscapes in diverse cultural contexts. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DSOC 4301, GOVT 4807
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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 183
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
STS 4351
Course Description
This course examines science and technology in so-called "non-Western" countries as well as the ways that science and technology are shaping new "transnational" or "global" relations. We will explore the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4435, ANTHR 7435, BSOC 4351
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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 110
Instructors
Langwick, S
STS 4616
Course Description
This course seeks to explore the intersections of corruption and environmental media. We will be analyzing films and other media (including artworks and literary texts) that deal with the environmental ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4614, SHUM 4616
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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 A D White House 110
Instructors
Mukherjee, R
STS 4618
Course Description
How can studying the deep past of information storage and transmission help us understand our current engagements with information and contemplate its future? In this course we will we will explore the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4618, CLASS 4632, COML 4615, MEDVL 4718, SHUM 4618
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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 A D White House 109
Instructors
Roby, C
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- 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 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 6121
Course Description
This graduate seminar offers an introduction to environmental history—the study of human interactions with nonhuman nature in the past. It is a subfield within the historical discipline that has complex ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6221
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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
- M Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Pritchard, S
STS 6481
Course Description
This graduate course offers an introduction to the history of western medicine from the classical age to the 20th century. Students will be introduced to major events, figures, and themes, as well as to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6491
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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 Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Seth, S
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Additional Information
Students enrolled in this course will be required to attend Professor Seth's undergraduate lectures in STS 2071 Introduction to the History of Medicine.
STS 6541
Course Description
This course focuses on what happens when science meets the policy-making world. We will specifically focus on: the rise of science diplomacy, the use of science in order to further development goals, and ... 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 110
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
STS 6991
Course Description
Applications and information are available in 303 Morrill 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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Slayton, R
STS 7937
Course Description
The Proseminar in Peace Studies offers a multidisciplinary review of issues related to peace and conflict at the graduate level. The course is led by the director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 7937, HIST 7937
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall G08
Instructors
Evangelista, M
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Additional Information
Taking two semesters of the course fulfills the basic requirement of the graduate minor in Peace Studies and Peace Science.