Science & Technology Studies (STS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

STS 1121

Why do so many women and minority students drop out of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields? Is this true at Cornell, the Alma Mater of so many top-ranked scientists (including ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17386 STS 1121   SEM 101

STS 1126

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS:Science, Pwr&Social Policy

  • 17387 STS 1126   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Hist of Environ Illness

  • 17388 STS 1126   SEM 102

STS 2051

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2051

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7708 STS 2051   LEC 001

  • University Common Course.

  •  7711 STS 2051   DIS 201

  •  7716 STS 2051   DIS 202

  •  7718 STS 2051   DIS 203

  •  7720 STS 2051   DIS 204

  •  7722 STS 2051   DIS 205

  •  7724 STS 2051   DIS 206

  •  7726 STS 2051   DIS 207

  •  7728 STS 2051   DIS 208

STS 2061

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2061PHIL 2460

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15683 STS 2061   LEC 001

  • 15684 STS 2061   DIS 201

  • 15685 STS 2061   DIS 202

  • 15686 STS 2061   DIS 203

  • 15687 STS 2061   DIS 204

STS 2231

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16885 STS 2231   SEM 101

STS 2821

This course aims to make comprehensible both to science majors and to students of the humanities the historical  structure and development of modern science and to show sciences as cultural phenomena. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2821HIST 2820

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16550 STS 2821   LEC 001

  • 16551 STS 2821   DIS 201

  • 16552 STS 2821   DIS 202

  • 17939 STS 2821   DIS 203

  • 17940 STS 2821   DIS 204

  • 17989 STS 2821   DIS 205

  • 17990 STS 2821   DIS 206

STS 2851

Environmental problems, public health issues, scientific research-in each of these areas, communication plays a fundamental role. From the media to individual conversations, from technical journals to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 2850

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5795 STS 2851   LEC 001

STS 3031

Today, nuclear things connote power and perils to nations and people around the world. We will examine the changing reasons that nuclear technologies—the artifacts, experts, and codified knowledge associated ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15816 STS 3031   SEM 101

STS 3241

The purpose of this course is to provide a critical understanding of the interconnectedness of environment and society. A primary focus of the course will be the relationship between environmental and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 3240SOC 3240

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8616 STS 3241   LEC 001

STS 3561

Computers are powerful tools for working, playing, thinking, and living. Laptops, PDAs, webcams, cell phones, and iPods are not just devices, they also provide narratives, metaphors, and ways of seeing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8110 STS 3561   LEC 001

STS 3601

Studies major ethical and social issues involved in engineering practice. The issues include responsibility for designing products that do not harm public health, safety, and welfare; rights of engineers ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECE 3600ENGRG 3600

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17183 STS 3601   LEC 001

STS 3991

More information and applications available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6595 STS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dear, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7403 STS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Hilgartner, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7404 STS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Kline, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7405 STS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Leuenberger, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7406 STS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Lewenstein, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7407 STS 3991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lynch, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7408 STS 3991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Pinch, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7409 STS 3991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Prentice, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7410 STS 3991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Pritchard, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7411 STS 3991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Rossiter, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7412 STS 3991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Sengers, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7413 STS 3991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Seth, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7414 STS 3991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Vogel, K

STS 4291

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4291GOVT 4291

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15703 STS 4291   SEM 101

  • Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This course fulfills the Government seminar requirement.

STS 4301

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 4301GOVT 4807

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15676 STS 4301   SEM 101

STS 4441

A one-semester survey of women's role in science and engineering from antiquity to the present, with special emphasis on the United States in the 20th century. Readings include biographies and autobiographies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FGSS 4440

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8116 STS 4441   SEM 101

STS 4661

Explores the structure, meanings, and implications of "public communication of science and technology" (PCST). Examines the contexts in which PCST occurs, looks at motivations and constraints of those ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 4660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17568 STS 4661   LEC 001

STS 4981

What if, William Blake once asked, every bird that flies "is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?" Asking what real and possible worlds our habits of sensory perception exclude, Romantic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4019ENGL 4491SHUM 4991

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17032 STS 4981   SEM 101

STS 4992

Students must register for the 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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4992HE 4992

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15674 STS 4992   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Staff

STS 6031

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15820 STS 6031   SEM 101

STS 6311

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SOC 6310

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5793 STS 6311   LEC 001

STS 6331

In recent decades, anthropologists have begun to treat biomedicine as ethnomedicine, opening up the cultural assumptions, differences, and contingencies underpinning biomedical science and practice. This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15693 STS 6331   SEM 101

STS 6561

Valuation is a pervasive feature of contemporary life. Professors, universities, hotels, markets, movies, user experience, intelligence - almost everything is subject to some form of review, rating, or ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 6561

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16323 STS 6561   SEM 101

STS 6671

Module of CHEME 6660 that examines the relationships of technology and society, and the nature and communication of technical knowledge. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CHEME 6673ECE 5510

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • 17996 STS 6671   SEM 101

    • TR Olin Hall 218
    • Jan 27 - Feb 24, 2015
    • Doing, P

      Tester, J

STS 6991

Applications and information are available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6694 STS 6991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dear, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7415 STS 6991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Hilgartner, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7416 STS 6991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Kline, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7417 STS 6991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Leuenberger, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7418 STS 6991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Lewenstein, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7419 STS 6991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lynch, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7420 STS 6991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Pinch, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7421 STS 6991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Prentice, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7422 STS 6991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Pritchard, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7423 STS 6991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Rossiter, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7424 STS 6991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Sengers, P

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7425 STS 6991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Seth, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7426 STS 6991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Vogel, K