Content

CCS 325.01

CCS 325, Section 01 — Culture in Context

• 3 credits
• Stony Brook University (SBU) / College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) / Department of Languages & Cultural Studies
• SBC: SBS+
  • “Pursue Deeper Understanding in the Social and Behavioral Sciences”
    • Courses meeting the SBS+ requirement will typically have prerequisites drawn from the areas of Understand, Observe, and Analyze Human Behavior and the Structure and Functioning of Society (SBS), Understand the Political, Social, and Cultural History of the United States (USA), or Engage Global Issues (GLO). Such courses will require students to cover material in social and behavioral sciences at a deeper level than the introductory Versatility courses.
• DEC: F
  • “Social and Behavioral Sciences”
    • Category F courses focus on individual and group behavior within society. These disciplines use methods such as historical analysis of documents, or survey and interview data, to observe and analyze human activity and society.

Course Description

Catalog Description

Theoretical and methodological examination of culture within specific contexts, settings, or time-periods. Emphasis may include historical, social, economic, political, ecological or material contexts. May be repeated as the topic changes.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing.

Automobilism as an Anthropological Revolution

Around 1907, the common perception across the world was that mass-produced automobiles were about to change the geographical and anthropological landscapes of the past. While speed was identified as the defining feature of the new mechanical world, other phenomena such as the enhanced individual mobility and the symbiotic relation between humans and machines seemed to suggest that an evolutionary change was also imminent, which would affect traditional identities, family and community roles, and normative social practices. With the help of instant books, plays, novels, short stories and magazine articles from the 1900s, this course delves into relevant topics such as race and technology, tech evangelism, neophilia, human-machine symbiosis.