UNAS 3355 The Bridge Workshop: Integrating Across Humanities, Management and Science

The most urgent problems in our society defy the boundaries of academic disciplines. This course focuses on technological disruption as a complex problem that is best understood through bridge thinking that integrates the approaches of the humanities, management, and science. The Bridge workshop examines three significant general purpose technologies that have disrupted and transformed society electricity, the internet, and Generative AI and uses these examples to develop the habits of mind that will equip students to navigate our changing world. This class will explore the 3 Cs: the collision of technology and society with the rise of mass electrification in the early twentieth century; the combination of technical and organizational regimes in developing the Internet and the high-tech economy; and the new connections that Generative AI has created in the classroom, the workplace, and beyond. Each of these general purpose technologies has raised fundamental questions of ethics, morality, and the social good. Through lectures, small group discussions, and in-class learning teams, students will learn how to transform knowledge into wisdom and become bridge thinkers ready to set the world aflame.