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HONR 460: Technological Justice (3 credits)

In this course, you will receive training, instructor support, and develop community with your peers in order to study interdisciplinary approaches to technology ethics for responding to today’s pressing technological dilemmas in a range of contexts. You will grapple with how historical and present-day inequalities, institutional environments, decision-making cultures, and regulatory systems impact the technological design process and distribution of technology’s risks and rewards in society. We will ask ourselves how relations of power inform the ways technologies are designed and experienced, as well as how power shapes dominant and insurgent approaches to achieving technological justice. The primary deliverable in this class is for you to conceive of and carry out your own research informed "Technological Justice" Project, based on your interests, passions, and personal and/or professional goals.

Successful completion of this course fulfills the Science, Technology, and Society Foundational Learning Outcome (FLO) of Purdue’s Core Curriculum, as well as the John Martinson Honors College’s (JMHC) Scholarly Project Requirement.

Independent Research Studies

The lab also offers independent research studies for 1-3 credits with affiliated faculty. Please contact the lab director at lweinber@purdue.edu to learn more.

Courses Affiliated with Tech Justice Lab

The following courses are affiliated with the lab. Please look up these courses or contact your academic advisor to learn more. For non HONR courses, H-contracting is possible.

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