Programs

Media, Culture, and Communication

Our media studies programs train agile researchers of a shifting media landscape. Learn to analyze media and technology in its cultural, social, and global contexts.

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Courses

MCC-UE 1171 History of Computing: How the Computer Became Personal 4 Credits

History of Computing: How the Computer Became Personal

This course focuses on technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology. The course familiarizes students with the social forces and technocultural innovations that shaped the personal computing industry, and uses primary documents, academic history and critical theory to contextualize and problematize popular frameworks of technological progress and challenge narratives of computing's inevitability.

Course #

MCC-UE 1171

Credits

4

Department

Media, Culture, and Communication