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Dec 14, 2025
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SOSC 7353 - The World in the Twenty-First Century
Credits: 3
Examines the potential long-term impacts of several contemporary trends, including (1) the nature of and responses to climate change; (2) the decline of traditional forms of civil society, accelerating demographic sorting, and the rise of social media; (3) implications of “big data” and new surveillance technologies on privacy rights and personal identity; (4) increased use of artificial intelligence and robotics at work and home; and (5) the transformation of culture in the digital age and its effect on wo/man’s “search for meaning.” May be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities, global studies, American studies.
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