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Spring 2022  |  HSCI 1715 Section 001: History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web (66125)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
HSCI 3715 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Mon 06:00PM - 08:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 530A
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course explores the many technological systems that have come to span our globe, alongside the widespread persistence of traditional technologies. We start with the earliest glimmerings of modernity and industrialization, and move on in time to the building of global technological networks. How have people changed their worlds through technologies like steam engines and electronics? Is it a paradox that many traditional agricultural and household technologies have persisted? How have technologies of war remade the global landscape? We ask how business and government have affected technological entrepreneurs, from railroads to technologies of global finance. We end by considering the tension between technologies that threaten our global environment and technologies that offer us hopes of a new world.
Class Description:
HSCI 1715 is designed for undergraduates interested in technology and history, and enrolls students with wide interests in the liberal arts, science, and engineering. There is no prerequisite. We explore the historical background and development of the most powerful technological system the world has ever known: Western Europe's. We cover relations between technology and culture since the Industrial Revolution, the diffusion of industrial technologies around the world and how various cultures adopted/adapted them, and technology's social impact, especially on Western society. We begin with case studies of industrialization in Britain, Germany, and the United States, and the connection between industrialization and exploration and discovery. We next focus on how different societies created/reacted to technologies such as the steam engine and electricity, and how the small technologies of daily life contributed to the growth of a society increasingly dependent on technology. Finally, we look at the increasingly complex technological system that nations and corporations developed to manage people and machines, and how these technologies related to social, cultural, and scientific attitudes. We end by considering the technologies of violence and hope that have dominated much of the twentieth-century.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
20% Additional Semester Exams
5% Attendance
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 1715 students will do three papers, 3-5 pages each. 3715 students will do one 12-15 page research paper, with three components.
Exam Format:
Short identification, essay.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
25% Film/Video
15% Discussion
Workload:
15-65 Pages Reading Per Week
10-15 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66125/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 May 2011

Spring 2022  |  HSCI 1715 Section 002: History of Modern Technology: Waterwheels to the Web (66126)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
HSCI 3715 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022
Wed 06:00PM - 08:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 312
Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 75 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course explores the many technological systems that have come to span our globe, alongside the widespread persistence of traditional technologies. We start with the earliest glimmerings of modernity and industrialization, and move on in time to the building of global technological networks. How have people changed their worlds through technologies like steam engines and electronics? Is it a paradox that many traditional agricultural and household technologies have persisted? How have technologies of war remade the global landscape? We ask how business and government have affected technological entrepreneurs, from railroads to technologies of global finance. We end by considering the tension between technologies that threaten our global environment and technologies that offer us hopes of a new world.
Class Description:
HSCI 1715 is designed for undergraduates interested in technology and history, and enrolls students with wide interests in the liberal arts, science, and engineering. There is no prerequisite. We explore the historical background and development of the most powerful technological system the world has ever known: Western Europe's. We cover relations between technology and culture since the Industrial Revolution, the diffusion of industrial technologies around the world and how various cultures adopted/adapted them, and technology's social impact, especially on Western society. We begin with case studies of industrialization in Britain, Germany, and the United States, and the connection between industrialization and exploration and discovery. We next focus on how different societies created/reacted to technologies such as the steam engine and electricity, and how the small technologies of daily life contributed to the growth of a society increasingly dependent on technology. Finally, we look at the increasingly complex technological system that nations and corporations developed to manage people and machines, and how these technologies related to social, cultural, and scientific attitudes. We end by considering the technologies of violence and hope that have dominated much of the twentieth-century.
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
20% Additional Semester Exams
5% Attendance
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 1715 students will do three papers, 3-5 pages each. 3715 students will do one 12-15 page research paper, with three components.
Exam Format:
Short identification, essay.
Class Format:
60% Lecture
25% Film/Video
15% Discussion
Workload:
15-65 Pages Reading Per Week
10-15 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66126/1223
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 May 2011

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