ANTH346
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Labor, Technology, and Society
Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
Course Subject Code
ANTH
Course Number
346
Status
Active
Course Attributes
BSS: GenEd-Breadth/Social Science, EMAN: Major-Anthropology Elective, EMBU: Major-Business Elective, EMMA: Major-Marketing Elective, ENAN: Minor-Anthropology Elective, MANT: Major-Anthropology, MBUS: Major-Business, MMAR: Major-Marketing, NANT: Minor-Anthropology, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive, ENMA: Minor-Marketing Elective, NMAR: Minor-Marketing
Course Short Title
Labor, Technology, and Society
Course Long Title
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Course Description
Engages students with scholarship primarily drawn from anthropology, media studies, and history of technology, to critically examine claims that digital tools will make work more efficient or that automation may eliminate work altogether, leaving people either unemployed or free to pursue their passions. As we consider the link between technology, society, and the future of work, students will have the opportunity to analyze: how devices that promise to create efficiency in the workplace often create the opposite, how contemporary automation encodes and sharpens workplace inequality rather than alleviates it, and how digital innovation often devalues and obscures people’s contribution rather than eliminates work.
Min
4
Repeatable
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Course Restrictions
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Equivalent Course(s)
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