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Course descriptions provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

STS 2011

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SOC 2100

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5630 STS 2011   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Marshall, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5631 STS 2011   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Marshall, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5632 STS 2011   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5633 STS 2011   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5634 STS 2011   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5635 STS 2011   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 2023

This course centers Black women who have often described their reproductive health experiences as "fighting for our lives." While grounded in an exploration of Black women 's experiences in the US, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 10859 STS 2023   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 10860 STS 2023   IND 601

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  • 11290 STS 2023   SEM 102

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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 2960

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5296 STS 2061   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5297 STS 2061   DIS 201

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5298 STS 2061   DIS 202

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5299 STS 2061   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5300 STS 2061   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 2468

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 medical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468BSOC 2468FGSS 2468

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4751 STS 2468   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Langwick, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4752 STS 2468   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4753 STS 2468   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 11660 STS 2468   DIS 203

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4754 STS 2468   DIS 204

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4755 STS 2468   DIS 205

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4756 STS 2468   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4757 STS 2468   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4786 STS 2468   DIS 209

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  3151 STS 2851   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Balog-Way, D

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 3011

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 3011

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5808 STS 3011   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 3111

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 3111GDEV 3111SOC 3130

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9033 STS 3111   LEC 001

    • WF
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Chaudhuri, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9034 STS 3111   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9035 STS 3111   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9036 STS 3111   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9037 STS 3111   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 3241

Humans have fraught relationships with the animals, plants, land, water—even geological processes—around us. In this course, we will examine how people make and respond to environmental change and how ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  4393 STS 3241   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Zinda, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 3601

This course surveys a range of ethical issues that arise in professional engineering, and provides discussion-based practice in analyzing and addressing them. Using normative frameworks from professional ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGRG 3600PHIL 2471

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  5996 STS 3601   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Goetze, T

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment open to: Engineering seniors, juniors, sophomores.

STS 3911

This course reviews the changing relations between science, technology, and the state in America, focusing on the period from 1960 to the present. We will explore science-intensive policy controversies. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3911GOVT 3091

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9013 STS 3911   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hilgartner, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 3991

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4016 STS 3991   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hilgartner, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4017 STS 3991   IND 605

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Leuenberger, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4018 STS 3991   IND 606

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lewenstein, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4019 STS 3991   IND 609

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4020 STS 3991   IND 610

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4021 STS 3991   IND 612

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sengers, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4022 STS 3991   IND 613

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Seth, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5246 STS 3991   IND 614

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ziewitz, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

STS 4041

Scientists and medical researchers try to avoid controversy whilst STS scholars argue that controversy can be a motor of scientific and medical change. There is a lengthy tradition of research into different ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9023 STS 4041   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Marshall, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 4131

One of the most troubling realizations of the 20th century has been the extent to which human activities have transformed the environment on a global scale. The rapid growth of human population and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4131HIST 4131

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9018 STS 4131   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 4260

This experimental, collaborative and seminar-based class will explore the material ethics of computing – the ways in which computing rests upon, emerges from, and ultimately returns to the earth, with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: INFO 4260INFO 5260

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  5969 STS 4260   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Jackson, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Information Science students.
    For Bowers CIS Course Enrollment Help, please see: https://tdx.cornell.edu/TDClient/193/Portal/Home/

STS 4511

From the 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed habitats, plants, body organs, imaged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 10304 STS 4511   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 4691

Multidisciplinary course dealing with the social and environmental impact of food production in the United States and developing countries. Agroecosystems of various kinds are analyzed from biological, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOEE 4690BSOC 4691

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5245 STS 4691   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Power, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 4992

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4491 STS 4992   RSC 701

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Seth, S

  • Instruction Mode: Directed Research

STS 6301

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 6301

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9016 STS 6301   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5650 STS 6311   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 6511

Topic - 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 have designed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 10391 STS 6511   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

STS 6991

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4023 STS 6991   IND 603

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Hilgartner, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4024 STS 6991   IND 605

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Leuenberger, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4025 STS 6991   IND 606

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lewenstein, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4026 STS 6991   IND 607

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Lynch, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4027 STS 6991   IND 608

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4028 STS 6991   IND 609

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4029 STS 6991   IND 610

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Pritchard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4030 STS 6991   IND 612

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Sengers, P

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4031 STS 6991   IND 613

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Seth, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5129 STS 6991   IND 614

    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Slayton, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

STS 7937

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 7937HIST 7937

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4935 STS 7937   SEM 101

    • R
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025
    • Slayton, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person