Cyborg Society. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: ENGL 102 with a grade of C or higher and one 200-level Social Science or Cultural Literacy GER course with a grade of C or higher. A cyborg, short for cybernetic organism, is a human being with technological enhancement or augmentation that improves the human body beyond its natural state. This course looks at ourselves as cyborgs and human enhancements from prosthetic, biological, nano-technological, informational, and computational technologies. Cyborg theory requires us to reevaluate the boundaries of the self such as differences between humans and machines, humans and animals, male and female. Topics include cyborg theory's impact on politics, gender, race and ethnicity, space travel, war, the prescience of science fiction, and the exponential growth of future cyborg technology. This course can be used to satisfy either the three credit 300 GER in History and Humanities or the three credit GER in Social Sciences, but not both.