• Reading and discussions
• Tests
• A one page research paper
• Electronic discussion group
• Grading
• Basic expectations

Required Readings

• Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow
  Guide questions
  Link to Perrow's home page
  Perrow looks back on the Y2K normal accident that didn't happen (January 10, 2000)
  
• Priests and Programmers by J. Stephen Lansing
  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)
• Society and Technological Change, 3rd edition, by Rudi Volti
  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

Research Topic Selection Form
Research Topics
Research Skill Guides
Internet searching
Government documents searching
Book and journal article searching
Current events

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

Help with your writing

NCSU On-line Writing Lab
Purdue On-line Writing Lab

Office of Technology Legacy web site

Email and E-Forum Discussion

• E-Forum
  Link
  Desirable characteristics for e-forum postings
  
  Class list with email addresses

Spring, 2001 Schedule