STS 6261 - Seminar in the History of Technology

(crosslisted) HIST 6190

Fall. 4 credits.

A. Johnson.

A seminar on the global historiography of technology. Typical topics include industrialization; military science and technology; science and engineering in corporate settings; engineering as a profession; technology, colonialism, and development; race, gender, class, and technology; labor and technologies’ users; urbanization, “modernization,” and technology in rural life; consumers of technology; technology and the nation-state; and environmental technologies.