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Technology and Social Change
Eric Abbott, Coordinator

The Technology and Social Change Program is a cross-disciplinary program examining the relationships between technologies and the social and cultural environments in which they operate. The program has a national and international perspective, with courses addressing the interrelationships, policies and impacts created by the international exchange of technologies. Through Technology and Social Change, students will better understand the institutional and sociocultural consequences of technological change from differing perspectives and will become sensitive to the issues attending the use of technology to improve people's lives.

TSC offers minors at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. With the exception of the core undergraduate course, TSC 341 (Technology: International, Social, and Human Issues), TSC courses are dual-listed with other courses in relevant departments including agronomy, sociology, journalism and mass communication, and philosophy. The core course is a university-wide course supported by LAS that attracts students from four colleges. The graduate core course is TSC 541 (Technological Innovation, Social Change, and Development), which is taught within Sociology. Faculty in the Technology and Social Change Program come from a variety of disciplines. Many of them have significant overseas research and teaching backgrounds that enable them to relate technologies to an increasingly global society.
Air Force Aerospace Studies - Anthropology - Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology - Chemistry - Computer Science
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology - Economics - English - Genetics, Development & Cell Biology - Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
Philosophy & Religious Studies - Physics and Astronomy - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology - Statistics - World Languages & Cultures
African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies