STS 112, CLASSART 113, CLASSART 213

A lecture course for undergraduates and graduates. 3-5 Units.

Things are vitally important to being human: making things makes people. This course is an interdisciplinary, archaeological and long-term approach to the history of design, exploring the connections between technology and science, design, society and culture by looking at ten things - from the earliest of stone tools, through ancient architecture, the ceramic arts, industrial manufacture, high-tech consumables, to the intangibles of software engineering.

This is a new version of

Ten things - science, technology and design

Part of the STS (Science, technology and society) Program at Stanford.