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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 127
Instructors
Kline, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
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:Nuclear Narratives—Stories&Subtexts-Progress
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Parrott, D
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
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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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
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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- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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- R Rockefeller Hall 110
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Hilgartner, S
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
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Hilgartner, S
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- F Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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- F Rockefeller Hall 110
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Hilgartner, S
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 Baker Laboratory 200
Instructors
Overby, K
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Additional Information
First-Year students must have permission of instructor to enroll.
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- F Rockefeller Hall 183
Instructors
Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
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Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 183
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Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
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Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
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Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 183
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Overby, K
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- F Rockefeller Hall 187
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Overby, K
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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 Morrison Hall 163
Instructors
Fletcher, N
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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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- M Morrison Hall 163
Instructors
Fletcher, N
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
Roebuck, C
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Additional Information
First-Year students not admitted into course.
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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 Comstock Hall-Academic II B106
Instructors
Porticella, N
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Additional Information
One college-level writing course. No first-year students.
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- W Comstock Hall-Academic II B106
Instructors
Porticella, N
STS 3111
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to the ways in which medical practice, the medical profession, and medical technology are embedded in society and culture. We will ask how medicine is connected to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 3111, DSOC 3111, SOC 3130
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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- F Sibley Hall 211
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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- F Statler Hall 291
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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- F Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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- F Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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STS 3231
Course Description
This course analyzes the development of foreign policy at the nexus of global health and national security in an attempt to better define and understand the evolving concept of "Global Health Security ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 3231
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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 Washington, DC
Instructors
Rao, J
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC. This course is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
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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
Wolf, S
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: juniors, seniors, or by permission of instructor.
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- W Fernow Hall G24
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Fernow Hall G24
Instructors
Wolf, S
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Meeting Pattern
- M Fernow Hall G01
Instructors
Wolf, S
STS 3991
Course Description
Applications for research projects are accepted by individual STS faculty members. Students may enroll for 1–4 credits in STS 3991 with written permission of the faculty supervisor and may elect either ... view course details
STS 4101
Course Description
One animal behaviorist speculates that big brains develop when species are social; that is, when they must read cues from members of their group to understand when to approach, when to flee, when to fight, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4101, BSOC 4101
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 348
Instructors
Prentice, R
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Additional Information
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 144
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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. 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
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- F Upson Hall 222
Instructors
Sengers, P
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- F Upson Hall 222
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Sengers, P
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- F Phillips Hall 213
Instructors
Sengers, P
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- F Phillips Hall 403
Instructors
Sengers, P
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- F Hollister Hall 314
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Sengers, P
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- F Hollister Hall 401
Instructors
Sengers, P
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- F Phillips Hall 307
Instructors
Sengers, P
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- F Upson Hall 206
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 Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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Additional Information
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STS 4511
Course Description
Topic for Fall 2018: Biological Art (Bio Art): From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 6511, VISST 4151, VISST 6151
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Douglas, A
Fernandez, M
STS 4801
Course Description
This course offers conceptual and analytical tools to study environment-society relations with a focus on water. We will confront water from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, examining ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4801
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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
- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Cortesi, L
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Additional Information
4 local field-trips required: Dates and locations TBA.
STS 4841
Course Description
The term "epidemic" travels widely and wildly in contemporary worlds. But, what, when and where is "the epidemic"? How and why does epidemic unfold? This senior seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4041, BSOC 4841, FGSS 4841
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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
- R Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Roebuck, C
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Additional Information
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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 6131
Course Description
This graduate course is dedicated to an in-depth exploration of the recent emergence of Posthumanism as a new theoretical paradigm in cultural and literary studies. Hardly a unified theory, Posthumanism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6186, GERST 6315
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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 Olin Library 403
Instructors
Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Enrollment limited to: graduate students only or instructor permission.
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 187
Instructors
Prentice, R
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(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- W Morrill Hall 111
Instructors
Pinch, T
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Additional Information
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STS 6511
Course Description
Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4151, ARTH 6151, STS 4511, VISST 4151, VISST 6151
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Douglas, A
Fernandez, M
STS 6902
Course Description
Designed for an interdisciplinary audience, this seminar explores the theoretical and methodological potentials of a broad range of scholarship in the environmental humanities. Together we will discuss ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6902
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
Instructors
Banerjee, A
STS 6991
Course Description
Applications and information are available in 303 Morrill Hall. view course details
STS 7003
Course Description
The special topic for this semester's seminar is The History of Digitalization. We will read mostly secondary sources on the transition from analog to digital forms of electronic media, focusing on the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 7000
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 187
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. Combined with: HIST 7110
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Lewenstein, B
STS 7201
Course Description
This course will examine the peculiar speculative world of emerging technologies-a social and technical "space," found at the edges of expanding technological systems, where new technologies are being ... 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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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Hilgartner, S