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This course will consider the ways in which technology, broadly defined, has contributed to the building of American society from colonial times to the present. This course has three primary goals: to train students to ask critical questions of both technology and the broader American culture of which it is a part; to provide an historical
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- science technology and society
- colonization
- civil war
- world war ii
- cold war
- industrialization
- mass production
- craftsmanship
- transportation
- taylorism
- aeronautics
- systems approach
- computers
- control
- automation
- nature
- popular culture
- terrorism
- engineering
- hobbyist
- communications
- internet
- machine age
- apollo program
- biotechnology
- environment
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This subject traces the evolution of ideas about nature, and how best to study and explain natural phenomena, beginning in ancient times and continuing through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A central theme of the subject is the intertwining of conceptual and institutional relations within diverse areas of inquiry: cosmology, natural
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- science technology and society
- antiquity
- middle ages
- renaissance
- science
- cosmology
- natural history
- physics
- mathematics
- astronomy
- medicine
- alchemy
- technology
- plato
- aristotle
- hippocrates
- ptolemy
- euclid
- galen
- vesalius
- copernicus
- kepler
- galileo
- bacon
- descartes
- newton
- history
- culture
- scientific revolution
- latin west
- western
- natural science
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This subject introduces the history of science from antiquity to the present. Students consider the impact of philosophy, art, magic, social structure, and folk knowledge on the development of what has come to be called "science" in the Western tradition, including those fields today designated as physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astr
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- science technology and society
- history of science
- philosophy
- ancient history
- medieval history
- industrial revolution
- natural history
- cosmology
- psychology
- relativity
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This course examines the growing importance of medicine in culture, economics and politics. It uses an historical approach to examine the changing patterns of disease, the causes of morbidity and mortality, the evolution of medical theory and practice, the development of hospitals and the medical profession, the rise of the biomedical resea
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- science technology and society
- science
- technology
- society
- disease
- america
- health
- life
- smallpox
- tuberculosis
- obesity
- heart disease
- mental illness
- medicine
- culture
- economics
- politics
- health care
- historical approach
- morbidity
- mortality
- medical theory
- practice
- hospitals
- biomedical
- research
- industry
- ethics
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Today many people assume that technological change is the major factor in historical change and that it tends to lead to historical progress. This class turns these assumptions into a question—what is the role of technology in history?—by focusing on four key historical transitions: the human revolution (the emergence of humans as a history
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- science technology and society
- civilization
- history of agriculture
- industrial revolution
- military history
- prehistoric
- fossil fuels
- invention
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This course explores the social relevance of neuroscience, considering how emerging areas of brain research at once reflect and reshape social attitudes and agendas. Topics include brain imaging and popular media; neuroscience of empathy, trust, and moral reasoning; new fields of neuroeconomics and neuromarketing; ethical implications of ne
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- science technology and society
- cognitive science
- evolutionary psychology
- neurobiology
- brain imaging
- mri
- ct scan
- fmri
- brain
- mind
- morality
- moral reasoning
- decision making
- intelligence
- empathy
- trust
- religion
- love
- emotion
- gender differences
- sexuality
- stress
- prejudice
- attention
- psychopharmaceuticals
- antidepressant
- neuroeconomics
- neuromarketing
- neuro
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We will explore the changing political choices and ethical dilemmas of American scientists from the atomic scientists of World War II to biologists in the present wrestling with the questions raised by cloning and other biotechnologies. As well as asking how we would behave if confronted with the same choices, we will try to understand the
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- science technology and society
- risk
- science
- society
- ethics
- politics
- technology
- history
- controversy
- atomic
- whistleblowing
- gmo
- genetic engineering
- nuclear
- space exploration
- energy
- policy
- debate
- museum
- archeology
- war
- terrorism
- tradeoff
- decision making
- medicine
- health care policy
- biotechnology
- climate change
- global warming
- human subjects
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This course helps in developing skills as science communicators through projects and analysis of theoretical principles. Case studies explore the emergence of popular science communication over the past two centuries and consider the relationships among authors, audiences and media. Project topics are identified early in the term and studen
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- science technology and society
- public understanding of science
- science writing
- museum
- exhibit
- debate
- journalism
- stem cell
- recombinant dna
- intelligent design
- gma
- genetically modified food
- biotechnology
- bioengineering
- risk
- journal
- newspaper
- radio
- fraud
- cloning
- evolution
- controversy
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This class is a global survey of the great transformation in history known as the "Industrial Revolution." Topics include origins of mechanized production, the factory system, steam propulsion, electrification, mass communications, mass production and automation. Emphasis on the transfer of technology and its many adaptations around the wor
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- science technology and society
- world history
- british history
- european history
- asian history
- south american history
- american history
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- transportation
- warfare
- capitalism
- electrification
- factories
- mass communication
- industrialization
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This course focuses on one particular aspect of the history of computing: the use of the computer as a scientific instrument. The electronic digital computer was invented to do science, and its applications range from physics to mathematics to biology to the humanities. What has been the impact of computing on the practice of science? Is th
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- science technology and society
- computers
- history
- digital
- scientific instrument
- applied science
- meteorology
- nuclear physics
- logic
- mathematics
- cognitive psychology
- biochemistry
- aerospace
- medicine
- supercomputing
- distributed computing
- linguistics
- humanities
- hypertext
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This course considers how the visual and material world of "nature" has been reshaped by industrial practices, ideologies, and institutions, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Topics include land-use patterns; the changing shape of cities and farms; the redesign of water systems; the construction of roads, dams, brid
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- science technology and society
- landscape
- technology
- nature
- wilderness
- industry
- industrial
- commons
- america
- history
- agriculture
- systems
- conservation
- preservation
- development
- environment
- native american
- railroad
- transportation
- aesthetics
- colonial history
- dust bowl
- national parks
- water
- drought
- natural resources
- food
- materialism
- capitalism
- organic
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A survey of how America has become the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, diplomacy, the economy, science and technology, labor, culture, and the environment. Topics include muscle and water power in early America, coal and the Industrial Revolution,
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- science technology and society
- history
- energy
- society
- culture
- technology
- politics
- diplomacy
- environment
- economics
- technological innovation
- social change
- consumers
- fire
- wind
- water
- oil
- industrial revolution
- thermodynamics
- electrification
- agriculture
- automobiles
- suburbanization
- nuclear power
- nuclear weapons
- global warming
- energy crisis
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This course covers the role of physics and physicists during the 20th century, focusing on Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Feynman. Beyond just covering the scientific developments, institutional, cultural, and political contexts will also be examined.
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- science technology and society
- general relativity
- theory of relativity
- einstein
- history of physics
- cold war
- physics in the 20th century
- electrodynamics
- special relativity
- heisenberg
- bohr
- world war ii
- big science
- feynman
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This course centers on the changing relationships between men, women, and technology in American history. Topics include theories of gender, technologies of production and consumption, the gendering of public and private space, men's and women's roles in science and technology, the effects of industrialization on sexual divisions of labor,
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- science technology and society
- history
- gender
- american history
- technology
- history of technology
- culture
- identity
- twentieth century
- modern
- industrialization
- demographics
- women
- systems
- modernity
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This course examines the history of MIT through the lens of the broader history of science and technology, and vice versa. The course covers the founding of MIT in 1861 and goes through the present, including such topics as William Barton Rogers, educational philosophy, biographies of MIT students and professors, intellectual and organizati
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- science technology and society
- history of mit
- history of technology
- history of higher education
- history
- mit
- boston
- cambridge
- mit 150
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This class examines the relationship between a number of mind-altering substances and cultural processes. We look at the relationship between drugs and such phenomena as poverty, religion, technology, inter-generational conflict, colonialism, and global capitalism. We read about the physiological and psychological effects of these substance
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- science technology and society
- drugs
- politics
- society
- cross-cultural perspective
- mind-altering substances
- habit-forming substances
- global trade
- sugar
- opium
- cocaine
- capitalism
- alcohol
- alcohol abuse
- lsd
- prozac
- war on drugs
- tobacco
- drug laws
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