Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HOW I LOVE (AND HATE) THE BOMB: THE RHETORIC OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN US POPULAR AND CIVIC DISCOURSE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: As new technologies (think nano everything, stem cells, space stations) appear in interpretive contexts such as movies and ads, familiar plots and conventions define their significance. This new course will focus on the period of 1950 to 2000, when results of a formerly secret technology dramatically ended World War II and became a central concern of American cultural and political life.