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Section Information for Spring 2012
"Say it," wrote William Carlos Williams: "no ideas but in things." Technologies, machines, are ideas made concrete. They develop in a social and cultural setting which they both reflect and transform. This course will broadly survey the way Americans framed new technologies, and the ways new technologies restated broader social and cultural concerns. The course will range from the colonial period to the 1960s, with the bulk of the readings located in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This course fulfills the “1861-1914” or the “1914-Present” distribution requirement in U.S. history, but not bothView 9 Other Sections of this Course in this Semester »
Credits: 1-6
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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