{"id":17746,"date":"2018-04-09T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:30","slug":"new-summer-course-the-public-history-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/new-summer-course-the-public-history-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"New Summer Course: The Public History of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Summer Course: The Public History of Technology\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-400x518.jpg\" alt=\"poster for your course with picture of gears and screws\" class=\"wp-image-17747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-400x518.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-240x311.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster-360x466.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/HIST3907-PubHistTechSummer2018poster.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration is still open for <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/undergraduate\/courses\/3000-level-2\/hist3907a-history-technology\/\">HIST 3907A: The Public History of Technology<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/beth-robertson\/\">Dr. Beth Robertson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are surrounded by technology, but have you ever thought about the history of your smartphone or your fridge? This summer course will help you dig deeper into the past of the machines of our daily lives, while also providing you with the valuable skills necessary to construct public history projects of your own pertaining to technology. The course is being done in close collaboration with the curators and other museum professionals at the recently renovated Canada Science and Technology Museum. Exciting weekly field trips, fun activities and lots of opportunities to engage with professionals outside the university all await you. No prerequisites required \u2013 just a curious and motivated mind!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Beth A. Robertson <a href=\"mailto:beth.robertson@carleton.ca\">beth.robertson@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration is still open for HIST 3907A: The Public History of Technology with Dr. Beth Robertson. We are surrounded by technology, but have you ever thought about the history of your smartphone or your fridge? This summer course will help you dig deeper into the past of the machines of our daily lives, while also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"learning-chalkboard"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17748,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions\/17748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}