The primary research goal is to investigate any possible correlations between mindfulness practices and students’ relationship with smartphones and social media. A second project aims to create an application and database to match patients in Puerto Rico with mental health resources. A third project involves designing a course that will ultimate result in a redesign of the lobby of the Fiske Planetarium to contain on exhibit on solar magnetism.
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mindfulness, social media, smartphones, meditation, stress, education, empathy,
ATLS 1100 - Design Foundations
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Spring 2018
Introduces foundational principles, practices and methods of design. Emphasizes design as an expressive and creative problem solving tool. This course engages with design from a broad perspective including visual, computational, physical and auditory design practices. Through lectures, discussions and creative projects, students will gain a familiarity with the diverse applications of creative technology through design.
ATLS 2000 - The Meaning of Information Technology
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
Surveys the history of information technologies and modern techniques of information production, storage, transmission, and retrieval. Emphasizes understanding not only the technological transformations in interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, but also the technological, social and political changes that underlie the movement toward a digital society. Same as HUEN 2020.
ATLS 4529 - Advanced Special Topics: Critical Perspectives in Technology
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Analyzes critical perspectives in technology, art and media. Within these courses, students will develop vocabularies, theoretical perspectives and critical approaches relevant to technology and its effects on culture and society. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ATLS 5529.
ATLS 5529 - Advanced Special Topics: Critical Perspectives in Technology
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Analyzes critical perspectives in technology, art and media. Within these courses, students will develop vocabularies, theoretical perspectives and critical approaches relevant to technology and its effects on culture and society. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as ATLS 4529.
