MCC-GE 3032 - 001

Regular Academic Session

24935

Graduate

4 units

Grad Steinhardt Graded

This advanced graduate seminar offers a survey of important academic monographs documenting the history of computing, introducing students to critical objects, interventions, and authors in and around the field. Readings will be drawn from the history of technology, history of science, media studies, STS, and game studies.

Open to all doctoral students at NYU and Masters level students by permission of the instructor. TOPIC: Computing History This advanced graduate seminar approaches the topic “computing history” from two directions. First, it offers a survey of important academic monographs documenting the history of computing, ranging across scholars from the history of technology, history of science, media studies, STS, and game studies. Moving fairly chronologically across the history of computing, the reading list will introduce students to critical objects, interventions, and authors in and around the history of computing. But secondly, this will also be a class focused on how we understand, process, and do history. For as much as we will assess these readings according to their historical content and academic interventions, we will also focus on these texts as narrative works and methodological arguments, deconstructing the choices historians make about who and what to focus on, how to story tell and move the reader through time, how much to reveal about archival documents, and where, if ever, the historian themselves enters the work. This class will foreground different styles and modalities of historical writing, both academic and popular, and continually engage with the question of what methods are best suited for telling what stories.

Laine Nooney

Tu 2:00PM - 4:50PM

01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022

In-Person

Washington Square

Washington Square

Open