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WEEK 1
(Jan 8)
Thursday:
Orientation: Tech and Civ II
WEEK 2
(Jan 12-15)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - The
Industrial Revolution
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Reading: Melvin Kranzberg "Kranzberg's Laws"
(available on
Blackboard)
Question:
Identify each of the three laws and the
examples used by Kranzberg to
demonstrate his laws of technology.
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader,
(Chap. 4)
Eugene S. Ferguson “The Origins of the
Steam Engine”
Question: How was Watt's
work influenced by Newcomen? Was
Newcomen influenced by earlier work?
WEEK 3
(Jan. 19-22)
NO MONDAY LECTURE:
Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday
Tuesday: In-class lecture - The
Global Industrial Revolution
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap.
6)
Helena Wright “The Uncommon Mill Girls
of Lowell”
Internet:
“Samuel Slater – Father of the American
Industrial Revolution”
http://www.woonsocket.org/slaterhist.htm
Follow the links from “Samuel Slater,”
through “Organizational Methods,”
“Including Children,” and “Slatersville”
Question:
What was uncommon about the mill system
at Lowell? How was it different from the
Slater system?
WEEK 4
(Jan. 26-29)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - The Second
Industrial Revolution
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap. 13)
Spencer Klaw "Frederick Winslow Taylor:
The Messiah of Time and Motion"
Question:
What was Taylor able to accomplish at
Bethlehem Steel? What is an argument
against the use of Scientific
Management?
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap. 18)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan "Less Work for
Mother?"
Question:
How is the use of labor-saving devices
really "more" work for mother?
WEEK 5
(Feb. 2-5)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Angela Lakwete - The New
Imperialism
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Reading:
Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap. 7) Daniel Headrick "The
Nemesis in China"
Question:
How did
the Nemesis symbolize the role of
European industrial technology in the
subjugation of Africa and Asia?
Thursday:
Internet: "Genocide Studies Program:
Belgium Congo"
http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/belgian_congo/index.html
Question:
What does this article tell you about
the public aims of imperialism versus
the private ones?
WEEK 6
(Feb. 9-12)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Automobiles
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
1909 Scientific American article
(Primary Document - available on
Blackboard)
Reading: Tech & Civ
Reader, (Chap. 15) Rudi Volti "Why
Internal Combustion?"
Question:
Why did the
internal combustion engine emerge as the
power plant of choice for the
automobile?
Thursday:
Internet: "The Interstate Highway
System, 1939-1991: A Panorama of the
Future"
http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080423213056eaifas0.9088663.html
Question:
What problems were solved by the
Interstate highways? What problems were
created?
- Exam One Study Guide Posted
WEEK 7
(Feb. 16-19)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Bill Trimble - Aviation
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Wilbur Wright’s letter to the
Smithsonian Institute (Primary Document
- available on
Blackboard)
Question:
What does Wilbur's request tell us about
the process of invention?
Reading: Tech & Civ
Reader, (Chap. 19) Peter Jakab "Why
Wilbur and Orville?"
Question:
Identify several of the aspects that the
author believes were important to the
success of the Wright Brothers.
Thursday:
First Midterm
Exam
WEEK 8
(Feb. 23-26)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith - Mass Media
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Newspaper Stories on the
War
of the Worlds
Scare, 1938
(Primary Document - available on
Blackboard)
Question:
What does this reaction tell us about
the power of media? Why is it so
powerful?
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap.
20) Leon F. Litwack "The Birth of a
Nation"
Question:
Why was this movie so influential?
WEEK 9
(March 2-5)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Michael Kozuh - World War I
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Reading:
World War I article (available on
Blackboard)
Question:
What does this
essay tell us about the nature of
industrial warfare under leaders unused
to that type of combat?
Thursday:
Internet: "Gas Warfare"
http://www.worldwar1.com/arm006.htm
"Trench
Warfare"
http://www.worldwar1.com/arm009.htm
Question:
Why did armies resort to the use of gas
on the battlefield? What effects did it
have?
WEEK 10
(March 9-12)
Monday:
Lecture: Andrew Baird - World War II
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
General Eisenhower’s D-Day notes, 1944
(Primary Document - available on
Blackboard)
Question:
What do these documents tell us about
Eisenhower's planning for the invasion
of France on D-Day?
Internet: "Operation Barbarossa"
http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1989-0/fleming.htm
Question:
How did racial
ideology effect the planning and
execution of Operation Barbarossa?
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap. 23)
Lucy S. Dawidowicz "Auschwitz Observed:
Report of Two Escaped Eyewitnesses"
Question:
How does the Nazi "Final Solution"
connect to aspects of industrialization
and mass production?
SPRING
BREAK, March 16 - 20
WEEK 11
(March 23-26)
Monday:
Lecture: Edward Arrizabalaga - The Nuclear Age
and the Cold War
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Internet: "Surviving the Atomic Attack on
Hiroshima, 1945"
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm
Question:
Is it possible to justify such an attack
on a civilian population?
Thursday:
Survival Secrets for Atomic Attacks,
1950
(Primary Document
- available on
Blackboard)
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader,
(Chap. 28) "The Atomic Age at 50"
Question:
Compare the arguments of Theodore Taylor
and Alex Roland. Which makes more sense
to you? Why?
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Exam Two Study Guide Posted
WEEK 12
(March 30 - April 2)
Monday:
Lecture: Andrew Baird - The Space Age
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Lunar Decision Memos (Primary Document -
available on
Blackboard)
Question:
What was President Kennedy asking? Was a
manned lunar landing a logical answer?
Reading: Tech & Civ
Reader, (Chap. 25) John Logsdon and
Alain Dupas "Was the Race to the Moon
Real?"
Question:
Was the Soviet Union really racing with
the U.S. towards the first lunar
landing?
Thursday:
Second Midterm Exam
WEEK 13
(April 6-9)
Monday:
Lecture: Andrew Baird - Computers
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Popular Mechanics article,
"Brains that Click" March 1949
(Primary Document - available on
Blackboard)
Question:
How do the uses proposed for computers
in 1949 compare to how they are used
today?
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap. 27)
Joel Shurkin "The Revolution"
Question:
What
fundamental changes in thinking about
computing were needed before the
personal computer emerged as an
important and commonly used technology?
WEEK 14
(April 13-16)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr. Guy Beckwith -
Nanotechnology
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday:
Internet: "It’s
a Small, Small, Small, Small World"
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/smallWorld.html
Question:
What are the possibilities for
nanotechnology? Is it important enough
to undertake research as a national
priority?
Thursday:
Reading: Tech & Civ Reader, (Chap.
30) Derek Humphry and Ann Wickett "The
Marvels of Modern Medicine: A Mixed
Blessing"
Question:
How has technology created a disconnect
between modern medical care and
"healing" a patient?
WEEK 15
(April 20-23)
Monday:
Lecture: Dr Michael Kozuh - The Environment
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Tech & Civ Reader,
(Chap. 29) Charles Smith
"Revisiting Solar Power’s
Past"
Question:
What keeps the world from making a clear
transition away from non-renewable
sources of energy?
Thursday: Internet: "Nuclear
Disasters and Accidents"
http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_disasters/nuclear_disasters.html
Question:
What were the
differences between the accidents at
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl? Is
nuclear power worth the risk?
WEEK 16
(April 27-28)
Monday: Lecture: Dr. Angela
Lakwete
- The Global Economy
Lecture Quiz on Blackboard from
2:00-11:00 PM
Tuesday: Reading: Tech & Civ
Reader, (Chap. 10) Leo Marx "Does
Improved Technology Mean Progress?"
Question:
How and why did the notion of progress
change from an Enlightenment view to a
technocratic one?
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Final Exam Study Guide Posted
FINAL EXAM — Monday, May
4,
8:00 –
10:30 AM in
HC 3353
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