STS 405
Technology and American Culture
Section: 001

Course Description

Interdisciplinary study of the role of technology in American culture that examines the social, ideological, economic, and institutional contexts of technological change in nineteenth and/or twentieth-century America. Explores cultural impacts of transformative technological innovations, such as electricity, trains, telephones, radios, cars, airplanes, and computers, as reflected in popular cultural products like magazine/newspaper articles, advertising, literature, music, museum exhibits, and/or film.

GEP

Interdisciplinary Perspectives GEP Course

Spring 2025

Instructors

Meeting Patterns

Classes Start:
January 6, 2025
Classes End:
April 22, 2025
Location:
00115 Withers Hall
Class Days:
T H
Class Start Time:
1:30pm
Class End Time:
2:45pm

Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
None