Science, Technology, & War

Science, Technology, & War

Online
Course Number
STSC 1120 920
Course Code
STSC1120920
Course Key
81652
Day(s)
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Time
12:00pm-2:30pm
12:00pm-2:30pm
12:00pm-2:30pm
Instructor
SCHIRVAR, SAMUEL W
Primary Program
Fulfills
COL-SECTOR-Humanities&Soc Sci
Course 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.
Crosslistings
HSOC1120920