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ANTH3608: Becoming Cyborgs: Technology and Society
2025 unit information
Humans, technology, and science are fundamentally entangled, the boundaries of one spilling directly into the other. This unit considers how science and technology reconfigure human and non-human existences, the speculative futures that these reconfigurations invite, and the forms of responsibility, ethics, and accountability that cyborg existence demands. The unit further invites students to reflect critically on the origins and histories of science and technology as dominant epistemological paradigms, and their uneven effects across place, time, and community. It invites attention to the new forms of enchantment and uncertainty that cyborg worlds foster.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the scope and aims of science and technology studies as an interdisciplinary field as well as anthropology's distinctive contributions and its influence on other interdisciplinary problems in
- LO2. describe and analyze technical systems and technology as social and cultural products through the interpretation of ethnographic description and primary sources
- LO3. identify scholarly literature from a range of interrelated yet distinct fields that contribute to questions in anthropology
- LO4. apply concepts and theories developed through interdisciplinary dialogues to an argument based on qualitative description and primary sources
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