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STS.043 Technology and Self: Science, Technology, and Memoir
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Not offered academic year 2024-2025Undergrad (Spring) HASS Social Sciences
(Subject meets with STS.443)
Prereq: None
Units: 2-0-7
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Focuses on the memoir as a window onto the relationship of creative people (scientists, engineers, designers, and others) to their work. Examines how class, race, ethnicity, family history, and trauma shape the person who shapes artifacts, experiments, and ideas. Readings explore the connection between material culture, identity, and personal development. Offers the opportunity, if desired, to examine personal experiences and write memoir fragments. Students taking graduate version write a longer final paper. Limited to 15; no listeners.
S. Turkle