---- an introductory-level course that fulfills the NCSU Science-Technology-Society requirement
Instructor: Jeff Leiter (email, homepage)
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Course Overview
Required Readings
Guide questions
Link to Perrow's home page
Perrow looks back on the Y2K normal accident that didn't happen (January 10, 2000)
Guide questions
A brief web summary 
A different take on the same subject by a different author (Gary Cziko at the University of Illinois-Chicago)
Guide questions
Lectures
Who Benefits and Who Loses in Technological Change
Unanticipated Consequences of Technological Change
Technology and Adaptation
Organizations Acting and Interacting
Your Research Project and Research Paper
Miscellaneous Items
Research Topic Selection Form
Research Topics
Research Skill Guides
Research Assignment Mockup and Examples
Guidelines for writing the 3p1p paper
Examples of 3p1p research papers
Student paper on biotechnology adaptations to changing circumstances
Student paper on who benefits and who loses from technological change in health care
Student paper on unanticipated consequences of computers in the workplace
Student paper on unanticipated consequencees of computers in the community
Student paper on unanticipated consequences of communications technology
Student paper (another) on unanticipated consequences of communications technology
Student paper on who benefits and who loses from technological change in finance
Student paper on who benefits and who loses from technological change in garbage
Paper by the instructor that responds to the question "How do technologies and individual initiative influence one another?"
Rubric for evaluating your paper
Comments on most recent class's drafts, based on rubric
Email and E-Forum Discussion

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