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2019　History of Technology A

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Academic unit or major
Humanities and social science courses
Instructor(s)
Kobayashi Manabu 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Mon5-6(W521)  
Group
-
Course number
LAH.T103
Credits
1
Academic year
2019
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2019/11/20
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This course introduces the history of technology in modern times.
The course analyzes how technology develops. I also take up the industrial revolution in Britain in 18-19th century, the British Iron and steel industry, a relationship between imperialism and technology, and American system of manufactures.
This offers students characters and problems of the modern technology that is originated from the history of technology.

Student learning outcomes

1, Analyze the mechanism of technological development to take up the British industrial revolution as the typical example.
2, Understand the developments of technology after the 19th century and the influence of it upon the modern society.
3, Understand characters and problems of the modern technology that is originated from the history of technology.

Keywords

The Industrial Revolution in Britain, Steam Engine, James Watt, Iron and Steel Industry, Imperialism and Technology, Mass Production

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills ✔ Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Lecture and writing a comment.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction: What is Science? What is Technology? What is Difference between Science and Technology? Why Do We Study History of Technology? All students prepare what are differences between science and technology.
Class 2 The British Industrial Revolution 1: The Backgrounds and Triggers of the Industrial Revolution. Technological Innovation in the Cotton Industry. Read course materials.
Class 3 The British Industrial Revolution 2: The Improvements of the Steam Engine by James Watt 1: The Invention of the Separate Condenser. Read course materials.
Class 4 The British Industrial Revolution 3: The Improvements of the Steam Engine by James Watt 2: The Improvement of the Steam Engine for Mills. Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution and the Effects to its Social System (Include Deterioration of Aggravation of Labor and Metro Environment). Read course materials.
Class 5 The British Iron and Steel Industry in the 18-19th Century Read course materials.
Class 6 Imperialism and Technology: Opium War and the Steam ship. Conquest of Malaria and Africa. Machine Guns Changed Styles of Wars. Read course materials.
Class 7 Mass Production of the USA and the Birth of Mass Consumer Society: Interchangeable Parts, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford. Read David A. Hounshell, From the American system to mass production 1800-1932: the development of manufacturing technology in the United States(Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.)
Class 8 Final Examination and Review of this Course Study hard for the final exam.

Textbook(s)

Tomohiro HYODO, Manabu KOBAYASHI, Shingo NAKAMURA, and Fuminori YAMAZAKI, A History of Science and Technology(2019).

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Reference Materials
Masaji ARAI, Hoshimi UCHIDA, Kin'ichiro TOBA, The Technology of the Industrial Revolution (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1981)
Paul Mantoux, La révolution industrielle au XVIIIe siècle. Essai sur les commencements de la grande industrie moderne en Angleterre (Paris, 1906)
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Morito NAKAZAWA, The Age of Steel (Iwanami Syoten, 1964)
Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981
David A. Hounshell, From the American system to mass production 1800-1932: the development of manufacturing technology in the United States (Baltimore; London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984.)

Furthermore materials will be introduced to students at the class.

Assessment criteria and methods

Your final grade will be the result of the Mid-term report(30%) and the Final Examination(70%) . 60 points are the minimum level of understanding of the class.
Students must attend the class 5 times and more if you get the credits.

Related courses

  • SHS.S443 ： Graduate Lecture in Science, Technology and Society F1A
  • LAH.T203 ： History of Technology B
  • LAH.T303 ： History of Technology C

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Welcome to all students who have intellectual curiosity, like history and want to know the roots of your major.
Applicants to the course must attend the first class.
Review the world history course at high school.

Other

When I will change the syllabus, I inform the students of it.

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