Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Science Technology and War
Term
2024C
Subject area
STSC
Section number only
401
Section ID
STSC1120401
Course number integer
1120
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-12:59 PM
Meeting location
MCNB 395
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David J. Caruso
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
HSOC1120401
Fulfills
Humanties & Social Science Sector
Use local description
No