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Nov 23, 2024
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2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (without addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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STS-UY 2144 Ethics and Technology4 Credits
This course considers how technology shapes and patterns-and is shaped and patterned by-human activities, from a moral point of view. This course focuses on how the technologically textured world changes human life, individually, socially and culturally, for better or worse. The course considers several views of technology and several ethical theories for evaluating technology. The course explains the structures of change and transformation and develops critical forms of thought, so that students can understand, evaluate, appreciate and criticize technological development.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
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