Academic Calendar - 2018 ARCHIVE
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2018ARCHIVE
Media, Information and Technoculture 3224F/G
CRASH LANDSCAPES
Our reliance on private transport has produced a landscape dominated by the automobile: an environment to which we are culturally blind. This course is not a strict history of the car. It is a sustained examination of how a particular technology can become intertwined with a society's political and economic processes.
Antirequisite(s): MIT 2410G if taken in 2009-10, or MIT 2411G in 2010-11 or MIT 2411F in 2011-12 or the former MIT 2309F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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CATEGORY A
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Subject Code: MIT
Media, Information and Technoculture 3224F/G
CRASH LANDSCAPES
Our reliance on private transport has produced a landscape dominated by the automobile: an environment to which we are culturally blind. This course is not a strict history of the car. It is a sustained examination of how a particular technology can become intertwined with a society's political and economic processes.
Antirequisite(s): MIT 2410G if taken in 2009-10, or MIT 2411G in 2010-11 or MIT 2411F in 2011-12 or the former MIT 2309F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.