Social Science

To view more information, click on the course number. SOCSC 151: Society and Technology 3 semester-hour credits - Tuition $417 Role of technology as a prime factor in changing social and political institutions. Addresses technology as the systematic application of organized knowledge and material tools to the extension of human faculties. The course is designed to increase the student's awareness of technological advances; to develop appreciation of technology's benefits and costs; and to stimulate critical thinking about the inter-relationship between politics, social dynamics, our economy and the advancement of technology. Assignments involve webbing or mapping out a specific technological invention; a biography of an inventor; the itemization of which technological devices are used in a typical home; and designing a time line of technological advances of a specific era. E-mail available. [Back to Independent Study course list]