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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of social science in the United States during the 20th century. there have been popular social scientific theories since the early 19th century, when the craze spread for interpreting individuals' character by feeling the bumps on their heads. But popular social science is really a 20th century phenomenon. And popular culture influenced academic research. Our coverage cannot be comprehensive. We have insufficient time to treat all human sciences equally. For example, there is enormous popular interest in paleoanthropology and archaeology, but we will not discuss these in class-although you mibht choose to write your research paper for the course on a spcific aspect of one of these disciplines.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. In this survey we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and war in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare andmental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfarein Viet nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
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3.00 Credits
Miller. The author of a New York Times article entitled "On Being Male, Female, Neither or Both" concluded her comments with the following statement: "The definition of sex was (and is) still up for grabs." In our post-modern world, we have become accustomed to the malleability of gender identity and sexuality. We are also aware that individuals undergo sex reassignment surgeries but by and large we assume that transgender people are transitioning from one discrete category to another. Queer activists certainly challenge this assumption, preferring to envision sex, gender, and sexuality on a continuum, but these days even scientists don't concur about a definitive definition of sex. Should sex be defined chiefly by anatomy Chromosomes The body's ability to produce and respond to hormones If the boundaries of biological categories can be contested, what are the implications for culturally constructed ideas about gender identity and sexulatity.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will explore the current context of health policy, health reform, and health service delivery in the developing world. After examining global economic and political context of health care, students will analyze the role that economic development plays in promoting or undermining health. Students will examine key disease challenges such as tuberculosis, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Weissberg. Pilot Curriculum Course All readings and lectures in English General Requirement VII: Science Studies. No other person of the twentieth century has probably influenced scientific thought, humanitistic scholarship, medical therapy, and popular culture as much as Sigmund Freud. This seminar will study his work, its cultural background, and its impact on us today.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ensmenger. Free speech, free software, MOOS, MUDs, anime and cyberpunk. All of these are elements of a braod set of social, technical and political phenomena associated with the emergence of a nascent "cyberculture". In this seminar we explore the ways in which recent developments in information technology -- the computer and the Internet in particular -- relat to changing contemporary notions of community, identity, property and gender. By looking at an eclectic collection of popular and scholarsly resources including film, fiction and the World Wide Web, we will situate the development of "cyberculture" into the larger history of the complex relationship between technology and Western society.
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3.00 Credits
Ensmenger. This course will explore the various social implication of information technology: social, cultural, political and economic. Topics will include technology policy, organizational change, globalism and the digital divide, intellectual property rights, Linux and the free software movement, cyber libertarianims, and the rise and fallof the dot.com economy.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey episodes in the history of the United States, especially in the twentieth century, that illustrate technology's central role of shaping environments, that illustrate the uses of the law in mediating social conflict concerning technologies and the environment. An important intent of the course will be to lead students to consider various environments along the spectrum of human manipulation, ranging from wilderness to agricultural landscapes and from designed gardens to urban and industrial environments. The main focus of the course will be on uses of the law by competing groups to mediate environmental conflicts through negotiation of treaties; lobbying legislative bodies to pass laws; influencing regulators to stiffen or weaken regulations; drawing police authorieties into the fray; and seeking favorable rulings from the courts.
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3.00 Credits
Quivik. This course will examine changes in energy sources, energy use and energy technologies across American history in order to help students understand how the U.S. and the world arrived at its present situation with regard to energy and to understand the complex technological, environmental, social, economic and political challenges implicit in any effort to modify the current trajectories of energy use. It will begin with the energy basis for the lives of Indians and Europeans at the time of colonial settlement and move along to expanded exploitation of animal, water and wind power, conversion to fossil fuels and adoption of nuclear power. With each form of energy, we will look at implications of energy use for work, material cutlure, domestic life, transportation and communications, social relations, economic growth and political power. The course will help students see theenergy implications in all we do.
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Kuklick. Throughout human history, the relationships of science and religion, as well as of science and magic, been omplex and often surprising. This course we cover topis ranging from the links between magic and science in the seventeenth century to contemporary anti-science movements.
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