HNRS 360: Multi-Disciplinary Topics (Topic Varies)
HNRS 360-005: Coping with the Internet
(Fall 2020)
04:30 PM to 07:10 PM T
Online
Section Information for Fall 2020
This course will examine the effects of internet technologies on our everyday lives and look to develop coping strategies so that we can become more intentional about how we use the internet. Students will engage humanities and social science research on internet platforms, social media, smartphones, Internet of Things, logistics, web services and data storage. They will learn about issues ranging from screen addiction to trolling to surveillance to advertising to globalization to the environmental impacts of internet technologies. Along the way, students will learn critical strategies for obfuscating their data, managing their privacy settings, controlling their attention, and reducing their carbon footprint.
Students will engage in ongoing experiments throughout the semester with internet technologies. It is preferable that all students have access to a smartphone as well as a desktop or laptop computer.
For some assignments, students will be asked to create login credentials and use various internet technologies, like apps and social media sites. Students will also be asked to alter and sometimes cease their current usage of internet technologies for periods of times as part of ongoing experiments.
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Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Required Prerequisites: HNRS 260C, 260XS, 261C or 261XS.
C Requires minimum grade of C.
XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
Enrollment limited to students with the Honors College (Business)., Honors College (STEM). or Honors College. attributes.
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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