This course will examine the relationship between technology and
society in the modern world, in particular gender and technology.
Themes include: the unintended
consequences of new technologies;
the relationship between technology and the environment; the
science-technology
relationship; the social shaping of technology debate; production and
consumption;
and the role of technology in stratifying or dissolving divisions along
lines
of race, class, and gender. The emphasis will be on twentieth-century
North
America, but examples from other continents and time periods will be
used
for comparison.
Information for the course will be found here