SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

AMER510

Course Code: AMER510
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

will be able to trace the development of the United States of America into a global super-power by means of science and technology,
will be able to discuss how technological development is linked to issues of American identity,
will be able to discuss how science and technology have influenced American political thought, giving way to notions such as ideological supremacy,
will be able to discuss the interrelationships between scientific thought, technological development, and intellectual movements such as Modernism,
will be able to survey the responses of American writers to technological development, both positive and negative.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

Directed readings into the relation of scientific institutions and thought, and technological systems and productions to social and economic conditions and changes, political events and intellectual movements with particular reference to the twentieth century.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction: Technology and Human Values
2^nd Week	Engineering and Society: The Industrial Revolution in Europe and America
3^rd Week	Mass production in Early Twentieth Century America
4^th Week	Politics of Science: American Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
5^th Week	Politics of Science: American Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
6^th Week	Student Presentations
7^th Week	Student Presentations
8^th Week	Machine Age America in Fiction and Film
9^th Week	Machine Age America in Fiction and Film
10^th Week	Scientific and Environmental Controversies
11^th Week	Scientific and Environmental Controversies
12^th Week	Globalization and Competitiveness: Science, Technology, and Economics
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Student Presentations

Recommended or Required Reading

Barthes, Roland. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Berkeley: U of California P, 1977.

Hughes, Robert. The Shock of The New. London: BBC, 1991.

Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: U of California P, 1975.

Lears, Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920. New York: Pantheon, 1981.

Martin, Ronald E. American Literature and The Universe of Force. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. New York: Oxford UP, 1967.

Peterfreund, Stuart, ed. Literature and Science: Theory and Practice. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1990.

Tabbi, Joseph. Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1995.

Tichi, Cecelia. Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature and Culture in Modernist America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1987.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Project	1	30
Attendance	1	10
Presentation of Article	2	20
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	5	70
Preparation for Final exam	1	10	10
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Project	1	60	60
Article Presentation	2	25	50
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	5	70
Total Work Load			305
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.16
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

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