Status
A
Activity
REC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
Science Technology and War
Term
2024C
Subject area
HSOC
Section number only
402
Section ID
HSOC1120402
Course number integer
1120
Meeting times
F 10:15 AM-11:14 AM
Meeting location
TOWN 305
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Nooshin Sadeghsamimi
Description
In this survey we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and warin the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare and mental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfare in Viet Nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
Course number only
1120
Cross listings
STSC1120402
Fulfills
Humanties & Social Science Sector
Use local description
No