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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or college course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Heroic Systems: Technology and Culture. This course explores the world's transformative engineering and technology systems, past, present and future, and is designed to help students understand more deeply how to thrive and innovate as leaders in our new millennium. It is open to all undergraduates, engineers and non-engineers, who are seeking to understand the essential questions of human life and technology through interdisciplinary approaches which integrate the humanities, arts & sciences. Through close reading of the most thought-provoking works of literature, science, history, and social thought, students will learn how the engineering transformations change culture, politics, and society. Interdisciplinary faculty and experts from engineering, humanities, arts and sciences will focus on core questions: what is a heroic system, and what are the world-changing benefits, costs, and impact? ; and how do these technologies impact culture and society, political and economic life, mora