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  • VAST 276: Rome:Science,Technology,and Civilization

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    Science and technology shaped values in classical and late antiquity throughout the areas in Eurasia and Africa controlled by Rome. This seminar examines how Rome's receptiveness to the Epicurean atomic theory; its engineering, technology, and applied science; its vast systems of transportation, communication, education, and entertainment; its political, administrative, and legal systems; and the conduit that its institutions provided for the transmission of values and ideas decisively shaped the modern world. Rosa
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  • VAST 277: Questions of Trust in Science

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This seminar examines three roles for the notion of trust in the scientific enterprise. First, the seminar considers the importance of bonds of trust between scientists, in part by examining mechanisms for dealing with those who break that trust. Second, students consider difficulties in fostering trust in science among non-scientists. The final notion is the way scientists today essentially create "trusts" by patenting their discoveries and the potentially adverse effects ofthis development. Sheiber
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  • VAST 278: Weapons of Mass Destruction

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    People once hoped that nuclear weapons would make war so terrible as to be unthinkable but it has not happened yet. What role should these weapons play in the world Topics include development and use of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons from scientific, political, and ethical perspectives, and the role of these weapons in conducting war and in maintaining peace and the means by which nations have tried to control their proliferation and use. Stark
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  • VAST 279: Eternal Youth and Immortality

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    Society has always yearned for immortality and a permanently youthful appearance. For many, this quest has become more urgent now that scientific and technological advancements seem to have brought these goals within reach. Topics include historical and religious perspectives, advancements in science, medicine, and technology, diet and lifestyle, the anti-aging industry, the role of the media, gender and aging, cross-cultural perspectives, and the social and ethical implications of the search for the fountain of youth. Bookwala
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  • VAST 280: The Promise and Peril of Educational Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    Rapid technological development is changing everything, including teaching and learning. This seminar examines how new technologies, particularly computers, are changing education at all levels. Students discuss the efficacy of educational technology and the equity of its distribution and imagine new uses and technologies that might enhance learning. Students serve as volunteers in an educational environment in the Easton community and reflect on experiences with technology in those settings. G. Miller
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  • VAST 282: Gambling:Here and Everywhere

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course introduces and analyzes the mechanisms of gambling and the games that are played. In parallel, it examines the benefits and costs of gambling, including those social, economic, and psychological, with the goal of answering the primary motivating question: is the proliferation of gambling good for society D. Smith
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  • VAST 283: Music,Audio Technology,and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    This course investigates how the evolution of audio technology has affected the creation, performance, perception, and dissemination of music from historical, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives. Through assigned readings, music listening exercises, direct interaction with performers and audio technicians, and hand-on laboratory sessions, students evaluate the application of technology to making music, music listening habits, styles and genres of music, and music's role in society. Emphasis is on learning to write about and discuss the application of technological data to musical phenomena and related cultural and sociological issues. Stockton
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  • VAST 284: Natural/Social Disasters:Urban Planning and Social Death

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    Glaveston, San Francisco, Johnstown, New Orleans--these are places that have battled floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes from their inception. In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, an urgent question arises: why, considering all the risks to human life, were these communities developed in the first place New Orleans, a kind of modern-day Atlantis, could be considered a feat of engineering, not unlike Amsterdam and Venice. But what is the social cost What are the ethical implications of building in areas where natural disasters predictably occur Washington
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  • VAST 285: Staging Science,Playing Technology

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    From its beginnings, one of the great paradoxes of theater has been its antipathy towards and dependence upon science and technology. By examining selected plays in which science and ethics are central subjects, this course explores how theater, which "theatricalizes" technology through using new inventions large and small in live performance, continues reinventing itself as a communal art form, remaking the particulars of cultural mythology, and shaping our response to inevitable change. O'Neill
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  • VAST 286: Values,Ethics,and Leadership in Business and Government

    3.00 Credits
    Lafayette College

    Developments since the turn of the century have turned the attention of the nation and the world to the enduring issues of trust and leadership. This course will analyze the sources of tension between organizational mission and individual values by using examples from the corporate and public sectors of the economy. In the process of examining the incentives individuals have to stray from their value set, characteristics or aspects of an organization and its mission that contribute to unethical behavior will be evaluated. For example, students will consider the factors or characteristics of organizational culture that may pressure a person into lying or purposely misrepresenting evidence. In addition, students will spend time reflecting on the market forces in the economy that reinforce trust, sound leadership and cooperation. Crain
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