Course Description
Impact of technology on society and culture. Included is the investigation of positive and negative aspects of various technologies, with specific attention to the technology education curriculum.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
In consultation with the instructor of the course, the graduate student will propose and prepare a scholarly work that demonstrates their knowledge of the course content and related policies and practices.
Athena Title
Technology and Society
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ETES 5010E or ETES 7010E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will identify and describe technology issues that are impacting or have impacted society.
Topical Outline
- 1) Welcome/Introduction to the Course
2) Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?
3) Technopoly: The Broken Defenses
4) Technological Momentum
5) Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
6) Technology and the Tragic View
7) Can Technology Be Humane
8) Feminist Perspectives on Technology
9) Do Artifacts Have Politics?
10) Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?
11) The Role of Technology in Society
12) Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals
13) Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered
14) Mid-Course Evaluation
15) Buddhist Economics
16) In the Age of the Smart Machine
17) Electronic Privacy in the Twenty-First Century
18) The Wisdom of Repugnance
19) The Year 2000: A View from 1967
20) Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry
21) Being Digital
22) Being Analog
23) An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-
1985
24) Computer Ethics
25) The Dark Side of the Genome
26) And Baby Makes Three - or Four, or Five, or Six
27) Defining the Family after the Genetic Revolution
28) Black Futurists in the Information Age
29) One Hundred Seven Assumptions about the Future
30) Technological Impacts Paper
31) Packing Tips for Your Trip (to the Year 2195)
32) Integrating Impacts into the Curriculum
