Week 1 / September 6 / Wednesday
COURSE INTRODUCTION
1. Nye, Technology Matters, pp. 1-15.
Week 2 / September 11 / Monday
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS (c. 46 pages)
1. Brown, "Making Sense of Modernity's Maladies: Health and Diseases in the Industrial Revolution," pp. 108-112.
2. Yafa, "The Man Who Made Cotton King," pp. 50-57.
3. Gudmestad, "Technology and the World Slaves Made," pp. 373-383
4. Bulstrode, "Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution," (read pp. 1-22)
Week 3 / September 18 / Monday
TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE (c. 120 pages)
1. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet, pp. 92-121
2. Rediker, The Slave Ship, pp. 1-72
3. Jacobs, "Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War," (read pp. 157-174)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 1 DUE
Week 4 / September 25 / Monday
MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGY (c. 120 pages)
1. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet, pp. 150-179.
2. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," pp. 56-97
3. Allen, "Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History," (read pp. 175-205)
4. Wagner, "Savage Warfare," (read pp. 217-233)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 2 DUE
Week 5 / October 2 / Monday
CONCEPTS (c. 74 pages)
1. Nye, Technology Matters, pp. 49-66.
2. Kline and Pinch, "Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States," pp. 337-345.
3. Hughes, "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems," pp. 51-82.
4. Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics," pp. 19-39
5. Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, excerpt, pp. 1-3.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 3 DUE
Week 6 / October 9 / Monday
NO CLASS
Week 7 / October 16 / Monday
THE ATOMIC SECRET
1. Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn (whole book)
IN-CLASS BOOK ANALYSIS RESPONSE # 1
Week 8 / October 23 / Monday
GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY (c. 42 pages)
1. Pursell, "Masculinity and Technology," pp. 17-21
2. Cowan, "More Work for Mother," pp. 223-240
3. Tone, "Medicalizing Reproduction," (read pp. 319-327)
4. Smith, "The Electric Guitar," pp. 12-21.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 4 DUE
Week 9 / October 30 / Monday
COLD WAR AND THE SPACE AGE (c. 69 pages)
1. Reynolds, "Science, Technology, and the Cold War," pp. 378-399
2. Smith, "Selling the Moon: The U.S. Manned Space Program and the Triumph of Commodity Scientism," pp. 177-209
3. Launius, "Opposing Apollo: Political Opposition to the Moon Landings" (read pp. 91-98)
4. Siddiqi, "Why the Soviets Lost the Moon Race," pp. 30-35.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 5 DUE
Week 10 / November 6 / Monday
INEQUALITIES AND INNOVATIONS (c. 91 pages)
Part 1: Inequalities
1. Hecht, "Africa and the Nuclear World," pp. 896-926
2. Seo, Policing the Open Road, pp. 1-20.
Part 2: Innovations
3. Bedwell, "Going Nowhere Fast," pp. 8-18
4. Mavhunga, "Guerilla healthcare innovation," (read pp. 295-317)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 6 DUE
Week 11 / November 13 / Monday
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES
1. Edgerton, The Shock of the Old (whole book)
IN-CLASS BOOK ANALYSIS RESPONSE # 2
Week 12 / November 20 / Monday
VIRTUAL TALES (c. 51 pages)
1. Lukasik, "Why the ARPANET Was Built," pp. 4-20
2. Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State, pp. 81-100
3. Philip, "Telling histories of the future," (read pp. 276-289).
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 7 DUE
Week 13 / November 27 / Monday
PRESENTATIONS
Week 14 / December 4 / Monday
REVIEW
FINAL EXAM
December 18 / MONDAY / 1:30pm - 3:30 pm
COURSE INTRODUCTION
1. Nye, Technology Matters, pp. 1-15.
Week 2 / September 11 / Monday
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS (c. 46 pages)
1. Brown, "Making Sense of Modernity's Maladies: Health and Diseases in the Industrial Revolution," pp. 108-112.
2. Yafa, "The Man Who Made Cotton King," pp. 50-57.
3. Gudmestad, "Technology and the World Slaves Made," pp. 373-383
4. Bulstrode, "Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution," (read pp. 1-22)
Week 3 / September 18 / Monday
TECHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE (c. 120 pages)
1. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet, pp. 92-121
2. Rediker, The Slave Ship, pp. 1-72
3. Jacobs, "Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War," (read pp. 157-174)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 1 DUE
Week 4 / September 25 / Monday
MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGY (c. 120 pages)
1. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet, pp. 150-179.
2. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," pp. 56-97
3. Allen, "Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History," (read pp. 175-205)
4. Wagner, "Savage Warfare," (read pp. 217-233)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 2 DUE
Week 5 / October 2 / Monday
CONCEPTS (c. 74 pages)
1. Nye, Technology Matters, pp. 49-66.
2. Kline and Pinch, "Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States," pp. 337-345.
3. Hughes, "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems," pp. 51-82.
4. Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics," pp. 19-39
5. Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, excerpt, pp. 1-3.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 3 DUE
Week 6 / October 9 / Monday
NO CLASS
Week 7 / October 16 / Monday
THE ATOMIC SECRET
1. Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn (whole book)
IN-CLASS BOOK ANALYSIS RESPONSE # 1
Week 8 / October 23 / Monday
GENDER AND TECHNOLOGY (c. 42 pages)
1. Pursell, "Masculinity and Technology," pp. 17-21
2. Cowan, "More Work for Mother," pp. 223-240
3. Tone, "Medicalizing Reproduction," (read pp. 319-327)
4. Smith, "The Electric Guitar," pp. 12-21.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 4 DUE
Week 9 / October 30 / Monday
COLD WAR AND THE SPACE AGE (c. 69 pages)
1. Reynolds, "Science, Technology, and the Cold War," pp. 378-399
2. Smith, "Selling the Moon: The U.S. Manned Space Program and the Triumph of Commodity Scientism," pp. 177-209
3. Launius, "Opposing Apollo: Political Opposition to the Moon Landings" (read pp. 91-98)
4. Siddiqi, "Why the Soviets Lost the Moon Race," pp. 30-35.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 5 DUE
Week 10 / November 6 / Monday
INEQUALITIES AND INNOVATIONS (c. 91 pages)
Part 1: Inequalities
1. Hecht, "Africa and the Nuclear World," pp. 896-926
2. Seo, Policing the Open Road, pp. 1-20.
Part 2: Innovations
3. Bedwell, "Going Nowhere Fast," pp. 8-18
4. Mavhunga, "Guerilla healthcare innovation," (read pp. 295-317)
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 6 DUE
Week 11 / November 13 / Monday
EVERYDAY TECHNOLOGIES
1. Edgerton, The Shock of the Old (whole book)
IN-CLASS BOOK ANALYSIS RESPONSE # 2
Week 12 / November 20 / Monday
VIRTUAL TALES (c. 51 pages)
1. Lukasik, "Why the ARPANET Was Built," pp. 4-20
2. Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State, pp. 81-100
3. Philip, "Telling histories of the future," (read pp. 276-289).
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS # 7 DUE
Week 13 / November 27 / Monday
PRESENTATIONS
Week 14 / December 4 / Monday
REVIEW
FINAL EXAM
December 18 / MONDAY / 1:30pm - 3:30 pm