SOCI 171. Technology and Society (4 units)
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Description
Does improved technology mean progress? Or, are environmental pollution and social alienation signs that technology is out of control? This class uncovers the social problems of key modern technologies such as automobile transport, factory farming, biotechnology, and nuclear power. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 168T and SOCI 171.
Prerequisite courses
SOCI 171 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have SOCI 171 as a prerequisite.