HMC 250 - Technology & the Psyche

Institution:

Pacifica Graduate Institute

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Description:

From the alphabet to motion capture, technologies have been integral to human expression. Technologies shape the landscape of the physical worlds we inhabit as well as the stories and images of the human experience. The interchange between technology and the psyche stimulates the flow of creative thinking, influences our dreams, and is the gift from the gods that fires human enterprise. This gift brings with it light (literally, as in the case of Edison's invention of the light bulb) and shadow (literally, as in the case of the atomic bombs which covered Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a shroud of darkness). Students will consider how technology affects not only the way we live, but more specifically, the ways we create and what we create, and what's more, the ways we share what we create: a particular focus will be placed on the Internet and digital technologies as a democratizing force in human expression.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pacifica.edu

Phone Number:

(805) 969-3626 ext 101

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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