HIST 264

Spring 2023 All Classes

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Technology in Western Society

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Credit: 3 hours.

Explores the role of technology as a transforming social force; examines innovations from the stirrup and heavy plow to the airplane and computer, that restructured economic and political life and realigned values; examines cultural representations of technology.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 264 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63376	Lecture-Discussion	A	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	333 Armory	Sepkoski, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: Description: This course examines the technologies that have shaped the experience of western modernity. Over the course of the semester, we will follow technological developments in Europe and the United States from the Industrial Revolution to the twenty-first century. Course readings will explore some of the fundamental debates in the history of technology: Does humanity shape and control technology, or does technology shape and control us? Is modern technology an engine of social progress or a runaway train speeding toward disaster? Technologies examined will include plastics, steamboats, cars, atomic energy, chemical weapons, and carbon capture machines.