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Apr 25, 2024
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HUM 185 - Technology and Social Change
Course Department: Humanities
Last Date of Approval: Summer 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is designed for students who are interested in technology and its impact on their lives and on the society in which they live. The focus is on examining modes of technology as catalysts of social change. The integration of readings, films, and experiences with the visual arts and music will provide a basis for comparison and analysis of the relationship between technology and social change. This course requires students to examine technological communication and use critical thinking, which can help them achieve a variety of personal and professional goals.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Identify the concepts of “technology” and “social change,” and provide relevant examples of technologies influencing social change in society.
a. Define “technology” and provide relevant examples that relate to social change.
b. Define “social change” and provide relevant example that relates to technology.
c. Differentiate between “science” and “technology,” and provide relevant examples of both concepts.
d. Evaluate the role of technology in influencing social change in the evolution of world history.
e. Evaluate the role of technology in influencing social change in the evolution of American society.
2. Identify and provide examples of social processes that are involved in the development of technologies and social change.
a. Identify and provide examples of discovery as a social process for social change and technological development.
b. Identify and provide examples of invention as a social process for social change and technological development.
c. Identify and provide examples of innovation as a social process for social change and technological development.
d. Identify and provide examples of technological diffusion as a social process for social change and technological development.
e. Identify and provide examples of cultural diffusion as a social process for social change technological development.
3. Describe and assess the impact of technology on American society and societies around the world.
a. Describe and assess technological development and resulting social changes in the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
b. Describe and assess the impact of technology on the development of early civilizations.
c. Describe and assess technological development and resulting social changes emanating from the Agricultural Revolution.
d. Describe and assess technological development and resulting social changes emanating from the Industrial Revolution.
e. Describe and assess technological development and resulting social changes emanating from the Information Revolution.
4. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues involving technology.
a. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues involving technology and the natural environment.
b. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues of ethics involving technology and medicine.
c. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues involving technology and government.
d. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues involving technology and the economy.
e. Identify and evaluate past, present, and potential future political and ethical issues involving technology and education.
5. Describe and assess the impact of technology on social movements and resulting social changes.
a. Define the concept of “social movements” and provide relevant examples from the past and present.
b. Describe and assess the main sociological and political theories of social movements.
c. Identify and evaluate the use of mass media by social movements.
d. Identify and evaluate the use of social media by social movements.
e. Provide examples of revolutionary and reform movements that have utilized social media in the modern era.
6. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of modern communication technologies in society.
a. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of newspapers and other printed materials in society.
b. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of radio in society.
c. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of television in society.
d. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of computers in society.
e. Describe and evaluate the relationship of social change to the development, impact, and diffusion of the Internet, email, social media, and texting, in society.
7. Evaluate major social theories of technology and social change, and representations of technology and social change in the arts and humanities.
a. Compare and contrast major social theories of technology and social change.
b. Identify and evaluate representations of technology and social change in literature.
c. Identify and evaluate representations of technology and social change in music.
d. Identify and evaluate representations of technology and social change in the visual arts.
e. Identify and evaluate representations of technology and social change in popular culture.
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