ENGL 4275/WRDS 4011: Rhetoric of Technology Syllabus
Assignments
Canvas Access
January 11th: Introduction to the Course
January 16th: Isaac Asimov’s “Cult of Ignorance” on Canvas
January 18th: Technology and Meaning, a Humanist perspective
Langdon Winner Summary
January 23th: Technology and Democracy
January 25th: The Politics of Technology
January 30th: Writing and Reflecting (writing as thinking)
Writing Workshop for Technology and Yourself (essay)
February 1st: Technology and Postmodernism
February 6th: The Religion of Technology (Part 1)
Technology and Yourself (essay) Due
February 8th: The Religion of Technology (Part 2)
February 13th: The Religion of Technology (Part 3)
February 15th: Post-Valentine’s Day reflection: Is love a technology? Why or why not?
Read the four articles on the above webpage (also on Canvas)
February 20th: Technology and Gender
February 22nd: Technology, Expediency, Racism
February 27th: Writing Workshop for Social Construction of Technology (essay)
Have an outline or direction written down (preferably on Google Docs)
February 29th: No Class Meeting—MIDTERM on Canvas
Technology and Yourself Essay Revisions Due: Friday, 3/01, 11:00pm
Notice what’s due after Spring Break…set aside some reading time
March 4th-10th: No Class—Spring Break
March 12th: Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 14th: Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 19th: Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 21st: Writing and Reflecting: Research and Synthesizing
Social Construction of Technology Essay Draft DUE Friday, 3/22, 11:00pm
March 26th: Artificial Intelligence Discussion, a little risk
March 28th: Artificial Intelligence Discussion, some history
April 2nd: Artificial Intelligence Discussion, machine learning
April 4th: Writing Workshop for Technology Project
Have an outline or direction written down (preferably on Google Docs)
April 9th: Wheeler, Tom. From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Part I)
April 11th: No Class Meeting—Keep up with the syllabus and Canvas
DUE Friday, 4/12, 11:00pm: Social Construction of Technology Essay Revisions
April 16th: No Class Meeting—Keep up with the syllabus and Canvas
April 18th: Wheeler, Tom. From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future (Part II)
April 23rd: Presentation Discussion, first several presentations
April 25th: Last Day of Class: the rest of the Presentations
Technology Project and Presentation Due
April 29th: Reading Day—No Class
May 2nd: FINAL EXAM—On Canvas
Your final exam will be online. I’ll open it up May 1st, and it will close on May 5th (at 11:00pm). You will have 2 and a half hours for the exam once you start.