HSCT 203 - Technology and Community

Institution:

Catholic University of America

Subject:

Honors Culture and Technology

Description:

The course is an inquiry into the dialectic between the development of technology and the formation of community. How do the evolving needs and interests of social groups drive the development of new technologies? How are these technologies used to shape the boundaries and character of political, economic, adn cultural communities? What normative criteria apply to these processes? These questions will be addressed in light of currrent perspectives from social theroy and the human sciences. The focus will be on the media, technology and contemporary international society. Topics are nationalism and the politics of identity, totalitarianism and surveillance, rationalization and globalization, cyberspace and virtual community, posttmodernism and the question of global community

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.cua.edu

Phone Number:

(202) 319-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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