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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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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Prentice, R
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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- TR Rockefeller Hall 187
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: Surveillance in Society
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Clarke, B
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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: Thinking Bodies
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Lehner, 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 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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: INFO 1200
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Olin Hall 155
Instructors
Jackson, S
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- F Hollister Hall 312
Instructors
Jackson, S
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Hollister Hall 368
Instructors
Jackson, S
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Hollister Hall 372
Instructors
Jackson, S
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- F Hollister Hall 312
Instructors
Jackson, S
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- F Hollister Hall 362
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Jackson, S
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Hollister Hall 362
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Jackson, S
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Hollister Hall 362
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Jackson, S
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- F Hollister Hall 362
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Jackson, S
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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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
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Pritchard, S
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W Rockefeller Hall B16
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Pritchard, S
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- W Uris Hall 498
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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- W McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Avron, L
Pritchard, S
STS 2131
Course Description
Science fiction, as Fredric Jameson put it, is "the only kind of literature that can reach back and colonize reality." Today more than ever, when science and technology have penetrated everyday life in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. 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 G22
Instructors
Banerjee, A
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Staff
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- R Uris Hall 303
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Staff
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Staff
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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Staff
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. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2455
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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 Ives Hall 215
Instructors
Markovits, J
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- W Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Staff
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 350
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 2468
Course Description
Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this "medicalization of life" may be one of the reasons that ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, FGSS 2468
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Malott Hall 251
Instructors
Hodzic, S
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall B15
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Staff
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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Staff
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- R Rockefeller Hall 185
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Staff
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- F Morrill Hall 102
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Staff
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- F Morrill Hall 102
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Staff
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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Staff
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- F Uris Hall G44
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Staff
STS 2821
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2821, HIST 2820
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Malott Hall 251
Instructors
Seth, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R McGraw Hall 365
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Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Staff
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- F Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Staff
STS 2851
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 2850
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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
- MWF Plant Science Building 233
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
STS 3181
Course Description
This course explores the history, sociology, and ethics of risk. In particular, we will focus on the complex and often ambiguous relationship between science, technology, and risk. A historical perspective ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 3181, HIST 3181
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Sibley Hall 211
Instructors
Slayton, R
STS 3241
Course Description
The course examines the relationships between human populations and the environment, with an emphasis on the importance of demographic change in shaping the natural environment. We will examine a variety ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DSOC 3240, SOC 3240
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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 Warren Hall 173
Instructors
Zinda, J
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Additional Information
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STS 3561
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3061, COMM 3560, INFO 3561, VISST 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
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
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Additional Information
Course not open to Freshmen.
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 3601
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ECE 3600, ENGRG 3600
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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 312
Instructors
Doing, P
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Baker Laboratory 335
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
Enrollment limited to Senior, Junior and Sophomore students.
STS 3991
Course Description
More information and applications available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Dear, P
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Kline, R
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
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Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Lewenstein, B
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Lynch, M
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Additional Information
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Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Pinch, T
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Prentice, R
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Additional Information
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Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TBA
Instructors
Rossiter, M
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Sengers, P
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Seth, S
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TBA
Instructors
Vogel, K
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm
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STS 4031
Course Description
The course is designed to introduce students to the historical background of a set of debates and problems pertaining to the role technologies of identification have played in shaping our understanding ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4031
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Ragas, J
STS 4071
Course Description
Examines problems that arise at the interface of law and science. These problems include the regulation of novel technology, the role of technical expertise in public decision making, and the control over ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 4071
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Lynch, M
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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- R Rockefeller Hall 110
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Prentice, R
STS 4352
Course Description
Cosmology can be understood as the search for order in the universe, for an underlying logic that structures and renders intelligible the raw chaos of sensory experience. In this sense, the production ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4352, ARTH 6352, CLASS 4753, CLASS 7753, MEDVL 4352, MEDVL 6352, MUSIC 4352, NES 4352, NES 6352, RELST 4352, RELST 6352, STS 6352, VISST 4352
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Anderson, B
Hicks, A
STS 4541
Course Description
Hurricanes. Guns. Zika. Contaminated food. Climate change. Hazardous chemicals. Accidents. Cyber warfare. We live in a hazardous world of uncertainty, surrounded by claims about risks, some sounding the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall G19
Instructors
Hilgartner, S
STS 4561
Course Description
Evaluation is a pervasive feature of contemporary life. Professors, doctors, countries, hotels, pollution, books, intelligence: there is hardly anything that is not subject to some form of review, rating, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: INFO 4561, SOC 4560
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Ziewitz, M
STS 4601
Course Description
The building skin separates and provides a controlled atmosphere for the interior space of a building, set off from the surrounding environment. When architecture is understood as an organism, and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6308, SHUM 4609, VISST 4609
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T A D White House 109
Instructors
Imperiale, A
STS 4610
Course Description
The pervasiveness of media in and through the planet has rendered the term "media" a muddy one, situated between technics, nature, and human. This seminar develops a set of theoretical frameworks ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SHUM 4610, VISST 4610
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- R A D White House 109
Instructors
Kim, G
STS 4661
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COMM 4660
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- R Kennedy Hall 101
Instructors
Lewenstein, B
STS 4751
Course Description
This course is divided into three major thematic sections. The first looks at the history of racial thinking in the West. We begin with the existence (or not) of conceptions of biological race in the early- ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4751
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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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- T Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Seth, S
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Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
STS 4821
Course Description
In retrospect, was film anything more than some highly flammable strips of celluloid? Taking its cue from the "digital turn," this course rephrases a traditional question asked in film theory about the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4312, GERST 4312, PMA 4512
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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 350
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Taught in English. Film screening one evening night per week TBA.
STS 4992
Course Description
Students must register for the 4 credits each semester (BSOC 4991-BSOC 4992) for a total of 8 credits. After the first semester, students receive a letter grade of "R"; a letter grade for both semesters ... view course details
STS 6061
Course Description
This course examines the relationship between scientific development, technological innovation and maintenance, and the capitalistic forces that support and benefit from these activities. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6065
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Morrill Hall 110
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
STS 6071
Course Description
Ethnomethodology (literally people's methodology) is the study of practices through which people collectively organize and sustain social activities. After being introduced as a subfield of sociology in ... 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 189
Instructors
Lynch, M
STS 6181
Course Description
This course uses water to examine the confluence of two fields: environmental history and the social and historical studies of science and technology. Although preliminary scholarship has begun to demonstrate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6181
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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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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Pritchard, S
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(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall B15
Instructors
Pinch, T
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 331
Instructors
Pinch, T
STS 6352
Course Description
Cosmology can be understood as the search for order in the universe, for an underlying logic that structures and renders intelligible the raw chaos of sensory experience. In this sense, the production ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4352, ARTH 6352, CLASS 4753, CLASS 7753, MEDVL 4352, MEDVL 6352, MUSIC 4352, NES 4352, NES 6352, RELST 4352, RELST 6352, STS 4352, VISST 4352
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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
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Anderson, B
Hicks, A
STS 6991
Course Description
Applications and information are available in 306 Rockefeller Hall. view course details