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STS 1102
Histories of the Future

From Frankenstein to The Matrix, science fiction and film have depicted contemporary science, technology, and medicine for almost two centuries. This course introduces students to historical and social ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 1620

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17246 STS 1102   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  • 17247 STS 1102   DIS 201

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 1123
FWS: Technology and Society Topics

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: FWS: Digital Media-Digital Cultures

  • 17577 STS 1123   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

STS 1126
FWS: Science and Society Topics

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: Vision, Knowledge, Power

  • 17582 STS 1126   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute

STS 1201
Information Ethics, Law, and Policy

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: INFO 1200

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8874 STS 1201   LEC 001

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  •  8972 STS 1201   DIS 201

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  •  8973 STS 1201   DIS 202

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  •  8976 STS 1201   DIS 205

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  •  9574 STS 1201   DIS 207

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  •  9575 STS 1201   DIS 208

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  • 17377 STS 1201   DIS 209

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  • 17378 STS 1201   DIS 210

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STS 2061
Ethics and the Environment

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 2061, PHIL 2460

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8705 STS 2061   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8718 STS 2061   DIS 201

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8719 STS 2061   DIS 202

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  •  8720 STS 2061   DIS 203

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8721 STS 2061   DIS 204

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 2468
Medicine, Culture, and Society

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, FGSS 2468

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8367 STS 2468   LEC 001

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  •  8368 STS 2468   DIS 201

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  •  8369 STS 2468   DIS 202

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  •  8370 STS 2468   DIS 204

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  •  8371 STS 2468   DIS 205

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  •  8372 STS 2468   DIS 206

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  •  8373 STS 2468   DIS 207

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  •  8374 STS 2468   DIS 208

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  •  8506 STS 2468   DIS 209

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STS 2561
Medicine and Healing in China

An exploration of processes of change in health care practices in China. Focuses on key transitions, such as the emergence of canonical medicine, of Daoist approaches to healing and longevity, of "scholar ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17119 STS 2561   LEC 001

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STS 2621
Gendering Religion, Science and Technology

There are several "just-so stories" about science and religion: the world's religions are parallel systems of belief in the supernatural; science has a set method that produces universal truths; and religion ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2621, FGSS 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18008 STS 2621   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 2841
Viruses- Humans-Viral Politics (Social History and Cultural Politics of HIV & AIDS)

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17252 STS 2841   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 2851
Communication, Environment, Science, and Health

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

  •  5586 STS 2851   LEC 001

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STS 3111
Sociology of Medicine

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 3111, DSOC 3111, SOC 3130

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8948 STS 3111   LEC 001

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  •  8949 STS 3111   DIS 201

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  •  8950 STS 3111   DIS 202

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  •  8951 STS 3111   DIS 203

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  •  9415 STS 3111   DIS 204

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  •  9416 STS 3111   DIS 205

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  •  9417 STS 3111   DIS 206

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STS 3181
Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3185, BSOC 3181, HIST 3181

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8227 STS 3181   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 3241
Environmental Sociology

Humans have fraught relationships with the animals, plants, land, water—even geological processes—around us. We come together to revere, conserve, protect the things many call nature. We struggle over ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 3240, SOC 3240

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7671 STS 3241   LEC 001

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STS 3561
Computing Cultures

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

  •  7391 STS 3561   LEC 001

  • Course not open to Freshmen.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 3601
Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice

Studies ethical issues involved in engineering practice. Explores the engineer's role in technical decision-making in organizations.  Considers the engineer's relationship to the uses of technology in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ECE 3600, ENGRG 3600

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8097 STS 3601   LEC 001

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STS 3991
Undergraduate Independent Study

More information about independent study available in 303 Morrill Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6204 STS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Dear, P

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6914 STS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Hilgartner, S

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6915 STS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Kline, R

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6916 STS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Leuenberger, C

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6917 STS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Lewenstein, B

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6918 STS 3991   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Lynch, M

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6919 STS 3991   IND 608

    • TBA

    • Pinch, T

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6920 STS 3991   IND 609

    • TBA

    • Prentice, R

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6921 STS 3991   IND 610

    • TBA

    • Pritchard, S

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6922 STS 3991   IND 611

    • TBA

    • Rossiter, M

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6923 STS 3991   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Sengers, P

  • 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)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6924 STS 3991   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Seth, S

  • 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)

STS 4041
Controversies in Science, Technology and Medicine: What They Are and How to Study Them

Scientists in the main try to avoid controversy whilst STS scholars argue that controversy can be a motor of scientific change. There is a lengthy tradition of research into different forms of controversies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17250 STS 4041   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4101
The Entangled Lives of Humans and Animals

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4101, BSOC 4101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8709 STS 4101   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4251
Climate History: New Perspectives on Science, Society, and Environment

Climate change is old news. Human societies have been debating and coping with climatic changes since long before the (relatively) recent advent of massive-scale greenhouse gas emissions. In this seminar, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4255

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17936 STS 4251   SEM 101

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STS 4451
Making Science Policy: The Real World

This course focuses on what happens when science meet the policy-making world. We will discuss theoretical and empirical studies in Science & Technology Studies that analyze the interactions between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15681 STS 4451   SEM 101

  • Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4561
Stars, Scores, and Rankings: Evaluation and Society

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 4561, SOC 4560

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8833 STS 4561   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4741
Science, Medicine, the Body: A Critical Race and Feminist Inquiry

In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine. We will read ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17130 STS 4741   SEM 101

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STS 4751
Science, Race, and Colonialism

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4751

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8780 STS 4751   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4841
What is (an) Epidemic? (Infectious Diseases in Historical, Social, and Political Perspective)

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4041, BSOC 4841, FGSS 4841

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17251 STS 4841   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 4992
Honors Project II

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4992, HE 4992

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7863 STS 4992   RSC 701

    • TBA

    • Prentice, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

STS 6061
Science, Technology and Capitalism

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6065

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8751 STS 6061   SEM 101

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STS 6101
Sense, Movement, Sociality

This course begins from the premise that bodies and sensing are the ground of sociality. Drawing on texts from Anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Disability Studies, and Animal Studies, as ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 6101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17174 STS 6101   SEM 101

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STS 6311
Qualitative Research Methods for Studying Science

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 Stdnt Opt

  •  8707 STS 6311   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

STS 6661
Public Engagement in Science

In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly referred to "public engagement in science." This seminar explores the scholarly literature addressing that move; the links between "public engagement" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 6660

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17488 STS 6661   DIS 201

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STS 6991
Graduate Independent Study

Applications and information are available in 303 Morrill Hall. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6262 STS 6991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Dear, P

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6926 STS 6991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Hilgartner, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6927 STS 6991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Kline, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6928 STS 6991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Leuenberger, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6929 STS 6991   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Lewenstein, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6930 STS 6991   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Lynch, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6931 STS 6991   IND 608

    • TBA

    • Pinch, T

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6932 STS 6991   IND 609

    • TBA

    • Prentice, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6933 STS 6991   IND 610

    • TBA

    • Pritchard, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6934 STS 6991   IND 611

    • TBA

    • Rossiter, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6935 STS 6991   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Sengers, P

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6936 STS 6991   IND 613

    • TBA

    • Seth, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18693 STS 6991   IND 614

    • TBA

    • Slayton, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18959 STS 6991   IND 615

    • TBA

    • Roebuck, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

STS 7741
Science, Medicine, the Body: A Critical Race and Feminist Inquiry

In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine.  We will read ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17133 STS 7741   SEM 101

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STS 7937
Proseminar in Peace Studies

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 7937, HIST 7937

  • 2 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16476 STS 7937   SEM 101

  •