HU 245 - Technology and Humanity

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3

Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None

English Prerequisites: None

Math Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None

Description: This course invites students to think deeply and carefully about the relationship between technology and humanity. Through examining the history of technology around the world, students develop an appreciation for the ways that technology influences human culture. We study creative, philosophical, and critical accounts of technology in order to develop a framework for making better decisions about technology. We grapple with moral questions raised by both technologies of the past and technologies of the future and think about what technology might teach us about what it means to be human in order to learn to live wisely with the technologies that fill our lives.

Department Consent: No Department Consent Required

General Education Distribution Category Met: Humanities