BST346

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Labor, Technology, and Society

Business College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

BST

Course Number

346

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BSS: GenEd-Breadth/Social Science, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, EMAN: Major-Anthropology Elective, EMBU: Major-Business Elective, EMMA: Major-Marketing Elective, ENAN: Minor-Anthropology Elective, ENMA: Minor-Marketing Elective, MANT: Major-Anthropology, MBUS: Major-Business, MMAR: Major-Marketing, NMAR: Minor-Marketing, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive

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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