Schedule
First Day
Thursday 9/24: Introduction to the course
Download SYLLABUS A110 F09
Week 1
Tuesday 9/29: Technology and the Human Condition: differing views
Thursday 10/01: Cultural Change, Colonialism, and the Industrial Revolution
READ: Book -Teich Part I & II
Week 2
Tuesday 10/06: Science, Technology, and Society or “Cyborgs and Simon”
Thursday 10/08: Film: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?
READ: In Reader (5 articles) – Dahlberg, Zihlman, Haraway, Cremers #4, Graeme. Book – Teich Part III
Week 3
Tuesday 10/13: Sweetness and Power
Thursday 10/15: Chinampas and Ramon Gonzalez
READ: In Reader (2 authors) – Wright Ch 1 & 6, Cremers #7. Book – Mintz
Week 4
Tuesday 10/20: Film: The Iron Road
ASSIGNMENT 1 – DUE at the BEGINNING of CLASS
Thursday 10/22: The Goddess and the Green Revolution
READ: In Reader (1 article) – Lansing. Book – Teich Part IV
Week 5
Tuesday 10/27: MIDTERM
Thursday 10/29: Film – Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance
READ: Book – start reading Sachs
Week 6
Tuesday 11/03: For the Love of the Automobile
Thursday 11/05: An Anthropological Analysis of YouTube
READ: Book – finish reading Sachs
Week 7
Tuesday 11/10: Television and Cultural Perception
Thursday 11/12: Maternal Environments and Ejaculatory Fathers: Reproductive Technologies
READ: In Reader (2 articles) – Kottak, Pursell. Note that Pursell is listed in the reader as Creager et al.
Week 8
Tuesday 11/17: Film – The Burning Times
Thursday 11/19: Gendered Relations of Technology
ASSIGNMENT 2 – DUE at the BEGINNING of CLASS
READ: In Reader (3 articles) – Cockburn & Omrod, Cowan, Bush
Week 9
Tuesday 11/24: Wrath of the Chat Police: Status and Control in War of Warcraft
Thursday 11/26: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY – NO CLASS!
READ: Book – Teich, Part V & VI
Week 10
Tuesday 12/01: Tools of the Present – STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Thursday 12/03: Technology and the Future
READ: Catch-up!
