Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An upper level reading and research seminar that combines readings in the history of humanism with empirical and theoretical issues from the present. Texts and topics from Kant to JCR Licklider on anthropos and humanism, and examples from current debates: genetic engineering, environmentalism, interfaces and networking technologies, testing technologies, and intellectural property regimes. Emphasis on the three R's. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 418.