History of Technology (GH 330)

Term: 2019-2020 Summer

Faculty

Jacquelyn Williams
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Jacquelyn Williams has a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology and a MA in Public History. Mrs. Williams has been teaching American, European, and World history undergraduate courses for 5 years, both in-person and online.

Mrs. Williams’ most recent research interests include early American history between the 15th and 19th centuries pertaining to Colonial and American relationships with the Spanish, French, British, and Native Americans.

In Mrs. Williams’ courses she strives to bring in information from various disciplines, such as history, anthropology, and archaeology, in order to provide her students with a well-rounded picture of the material she is covering.  She likes to incorporate primary sources, documentaries, power points, and group discussions into her courses to better help her students learn and remember the material.

Description

This course will discuss and examine technology in the United States, exploring a variety of individuals and their very unique and important ideas. Some of the individuals we will be evaluating are Thomas Jefferson, Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, Lewis Latimer, Henry Ford, and Morris L. Cooke. The focus of this course will be examining these individuals and their ideas within the context of the historical periods in which they were devised.