STS at Cornell University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate STS coursework.

• STS 2051Ethical Issues in Health and Medicineopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate STS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 17 STS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 209 more STS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on STS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in STS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at STS 3474

  1. ANTHR 1101FWS: The Human Condition: Culture, Society, and Power
  2. STS 3474Infrastructure

• 2 courses deep, ending at STS 4200

  1. INFO 1200Information Ethics, Law, and Policy
  2. STS 4200Information Policy: Applied Research and Analysis

• 2 courses deep, ending at STS 4260

  1. CS 1340Choices and Consequences in Computing
  2. STS 4260Computing On Earth: Planetary Dimensions and Consequence of Computing

• 2 courses deep, ending at STS 4416

  1. ANTHR 3000Introduction to Anthropological Theory
  2. STS 4416It's the End of the World As We Know It

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on STS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Andrei Guruianu
• Anindita Banerjee
• Ashawari Chaudhuri
• Christine Leuenberger
• Jeremy Schneider
• Jessica Ratcliff
• Malte Ziewitz
• Michell Chresfield
• Rachel Prentice
• Rebecca Slayton
• Sara Pritchard
• Shaoling Ma
• Stephen Hilgartner
• Steven Jackson
• Steven Wolf
• Suman Seth
• Tj Hinrichs
• Trystan Goetze
• Yu Wang

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under STS yet.

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Department events

STS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.