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STS 6261

Seminar in the History of Technology

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Graduate-level survey of the history of technology, which introduces some key questions, concepts, and approaches within the field since the 1980s. Typical themes include social construction of technology; technological systems and infrastructure; technopolitics; race, class, genders, disability, and technology; users; envirotech; maintenance and repair; colonialism and decolonizing technology; and public and engaged #histtech.

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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6190
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

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18332 STS 6261 SEM 101
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- W 2:00pm - 4:30pm Morrill Hall 423
- Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024
- Instructors
  
  Pritchard, S

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana Author Miescher	Miescher	9780253059956 Indiana University Press	$50.00
Required	Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Author Crawford	Crawford	9780300264630 Yale University Press	$18.00
Required	Atomic Junction : Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence Author Osseo-Asare	Osseo-Asare	9781108457378 Cambridge University Press	$38.99
Required	Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land Author Novick	Novick	9780262039079 Mit Press	$45.00
Required	Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country Author Duarte	Duarte	9780295741826 University Of Washington Press	$30.00
Required	Policing the Open Road : How Cars Transformed American Freedom Author Seo	Seo	9780674260344 Harvard University Press	$20.00
Required	The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another Author Ramirez	Ramirez	9780262542265 Mit Press	$17.95
Required	The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight Author Monea	Monea	9780262545952 Mit Press	$21.95

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