Students read and discuss a variety of theories about human behavior and the destructive impulse in humankind. Short essays, a research paper, group projects, and oral presentations enable students to build and practice communications skills. Topics include the role of culture, economics, politics, and technology in that relationship. TCC 101 Lectures, readings, and discussions compare earlier and modern designs of the ideal society, stressing the relationship of their basic technologies to historical reality. Such writers as Plato, Thomas More, and Aldous Huxley are considered.
Students give oral presentations, write short papers, and design a personal utopia.
TCC 101 Explores the development of flight from the earliest historical records of peoples' interest in flying through the achievements of the space age. Emphasizes the social and cultural impacts of flight, advances in technology, and the significance of the contribution of individuals. Guest lectures, film showings, visits to aviation museums, and student reports and projects supplement regular classroom lecture and discussion. TCC 101 Explores the history of space flight, from peoples' earliest interest in rockets through the most recent developments in aerospace technology. TCC 101 A study of the impacts of nineteenth-century American industrial development on the community, the worker, and engineering.