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Miami University
English/IMS 171, Honors 180
Various Titles: "Humanities and Technology," "Digital Humanities," "New Technologies, New Worlds"
This course is designed for non-English majors. The focus of this course is becoming aware of the impact that Information Society has on our lives. It teaches methods for thinking critically about new digital media from a humanities perspective. We will learn to question the various effects, good and bad, of information culture even as it shapes self-understanding. Further, the course links critical thinking to the kind of creative thinking that should ideally be brought to bear on new technological developments. The goal of English/IMS 171 is to give students a method for questioning the impact on self and society of any technology that they will encounter in their future studies and their lives after school, even those not specifically addressed by the course itself -- those future technologies that are currently unimaginable. Ideally, by the end of this class, students will be able to observe and think about the profound effects produced by any new technologies on the very processes of thinking, knowing, acting, and being.
Fall 2003 Course Syllabus available here.
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Spring 2003 Course Syllabus available here.
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Fall 2004 Course Syllabus available here (Honors version, 180U)
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Spring 2006 Course Syllabus available here (First-Year Seminar, F103B)
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