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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at
its meeting of March 20, 1984 gives rise to the following motion:
MOTION: ?
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to
the Board of Governors, as set forth in S.84-26
the proposed new course
CMNS 221-3 Media and Audiences
with discontinuation of
CMNS 220-3 Introduction to Interpersonal Communication"
Subject to approval of the course by Senate and the Board of Governors
the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies gave approval for waiver of the
normal two-semester time lag requirement in order that the course may be first
offered in Fall 1984,
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Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies
at its meeting of April 24, 1984 gives rise to the following motion:-
MOT-ON: "That Senate approve and recommend approval to the
Board of Governors, as set forth in S.84- 26 , the
proposed
New courses - CMNS 353-4 The Social Impacts of Information
Technology
CMNS 453-5 The Information Society
with discontinuation of
CMNS 300-5 Introduction to Systems Theory
in Communication
CtS 402-5 Communication in Organizations:
A Systems Perspective, respectively"
Subject to the approval of the above courses by Senate and the
Board of Governors the committee approved waiver of the normal two
semester time lag requirement in order that these courses may be first
offered in Spring 85-1.
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FOR INFORMATION:
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of March 20, 1984 the
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies approved prerequisite change for
CMNS 360-4 Fundamentals of Communication Research -
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45 semester hours credit; at least 2 lower
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division courses in Communication
TO:
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45 semester hours credit; including at least
2 lower division courses in Communication; and
PSYC 210-3 or MATH 101-3 or MATH 102-3
Acting under delegated authority at its meeting of April 24,1984
the Senate committee on Undergraduate Studies approved change of title as
follows:
CMNS 253-3 FROM Computers and Communication
TO
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Introduction to Information Technology
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At a meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, held on Tuesday,
February 14, 1984, members of the committee reviewed and
approved the above-named course.
Would you please place this item on the next agenda of
the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Cattuiication
Calendar Information ?
Department:__________________
Abbreviation Code: CMS Course Number: _
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Credit Hours:
3
Vector: 2-0-1
Title of Course:
Media and Audiences
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Calendar Description of Course:
An
introduction to the study of popular culture and cannunication, with a focus on the
organization and role of audience groups in the production and dissemination of media-
based popular culture forms. Practices and interests of production and patterns of
consumption
among social groups are analyzed in terms of the relationship between
industries and audiences. The interplay between media in society and cultural activity
is a basic theme of the course.
Nature of Course
lecture/tutorial
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
G'JS 110-3 or 130-3.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
G41S
220-3
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered? ?
once per year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? ?
Fall 1984
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
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Laba Lorimer
3. Objectives of the Course
This course is
designed as the first in a two-course sequence, and is followed by
G1NS 321-4. It is intended to evaluate and analyze the nature and deve1optnt of
popular culture productions, industries, technologies and audiences, and focus on
the structure and function of production practices and audience groups in media
in general and popular music rredia in particular.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
Library
Audio Visual
None.
Space
Equipment
5.
Approval
Date:__________________________
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
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SCIJS 73-34b: (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
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NEW COURSE
PROPOSAL: CMNS
221-3, Media and Audiences
I. Rationale:
This course is designed as the first in a two-course sequence,
and is followed
by Q4NS
321-4, Communication and Culture in Musical
Form: The Popular Idiom, which has been offered since 1981.
Together these courses evaluate and analyze the nature and
development of popular culture productions, industries, technologies,
and audiences, and focus on the structure and function of production
practices and consumption patterns in popular culture in general, and
popular music media in particular.
CM!YIS 221, Media and Audiences, introduces the study of popular
culture and catinunication, and analyzes the organization and role of
audience groups in the generation and dissemination of media-based
popular culture forms. The relationship between nedia and culture
then, constitutes the essential therm of the course.
Popular culture has been conceptualized in various theoretical
analyses, case studies, and historical treatments devoted to it as a
matrix of symbolic forms established and situated through technological
means, and disseminated over varied audience contexts. These factors
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of symbolicity, technology, and dissemination are further qualified
by the realm of human cultural activity -- the social action of
individuals and groups as they identify, integrate, and legitimize
their experience in everyday life by making sense of, and meaning
from the symbolic forms of popular culture. In this way, popular
culture is inextricably tied to social practices, and in particular,
those practices
by
which social groups respond to certain material
conditions of life. This course examines the interdeterminate relation-
ship between media and audiences through the analysis of popular culture
process and production in society. To this end, the contemporary
popular music media are introduced and analyzed in terms of industries
and audiences, commodities and cultural forms, production interests
and practices and patterns and strategies of consumption.
II.
Principal Instructor's Qualifications:
Martin Laba has worked in, as well as taught about media. His
experience as a television canposer and radio broadcaster provide a
practical dimension to the analysis of popular culture process and
production in this course. He designed and teaches CMNS 321. His
academic areas of specialization include critical analysis of media
and popular culture and communications, and his forthcaning book,
co-edited with Peter Narvaez, Media Sense: Folklore and Popular
Culture, focusses on these areas.
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C1NS 221-3
MEDIA AND AUDIENCES ?
Course Outline
This class is organized in a lecture/tutorial format with a 2-hour
lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Week-by-week Schedule:
Week ?
Topic
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1
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Introduction:. Popular Culture and the Media.
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Historical Perspective: Popular Culture and Society.
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3
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Media and Society: Theories and Issues.
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Cultural Studies Approaches
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5
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Understanding Audiences.
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The Industrialization of Culture
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The Industrialization of Culture (II).
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Technology and Cultural Form.
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Camodities, Consumption and Social Order.
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10
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Case SThdy: The Structure of the Popular Music Industry.
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Making Meaning: Production.
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Making Meaning: Audiences.
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Suinnary and Conclusions: Toward a Theory of Popular
Culture for Caununication.
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Required Texts:
Denisoff, R. Serge, Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry. New Brunswick,
N.J.: Transaction, 1975.
Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen, 1979.
Murdock, Graham and P. Hartman, Understanding Audiences. London: Methuen,
1984.
ihtina of Course Grade:
Mid-term Exam
? 20%
Final Paper
? 35%
Final Exam ?
30%
Tutorial Participation
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15%
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction",
in Marxism and Art, eds. Berel Lang and Forrest Williams. New York:
David McKay, 1972.
Bigsby, C.W.E., ed. Approaches to Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio:
Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976.
Burns, Tan. "A Meaning in Everyday Life", New Society, 9 (1967), 760-762.
Burns, Tan. "Leisure in Industrial Society", in Leisure and Society in
Britain, eds. M.A. Smith, S. Parker and C.S. Smith. London: Allen
Lane, 1973.
Carey, James W. "Culture and Communication", Communication Research, 2
(1975), 173-191.
Cawelti, John G. "Notes Toward an
Aesthetic
of Popular Culture", in
Popular Culture and the Expanding Consciousness, ed. Ray B. Browne.
New York: John Wiley, 1973.
Cawelti, John G. "The Concept of Artistic Matrices", Carrnunication Research,
5 (1978), 283-303.
Cawelti, John G. The Six-Gun Mystique. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green
University Popular Press, 1970. ?
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Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics. St. Albans: Paladin, 1973.
Curran, James, Michael Gurevitch and Janet Woollacott, eds. Mass Cannunication
and Society. London: Edward Arnold, 1977.
Fiske, John. Introduction to Carinunication Studies. London: Methuen, 1982.
Fiske, John and John Hartley. Reading Television. London: Methuen, 1978.
Frith, Simon. "Rock and Popular Culture", Socialist Revolution, 7 (1977),
97-111.
Gurevitch, Michael, Tony Bennett, James Curran and Janet Wool lacott, eds.
Culture, Society and the Media. London: Methuen, 1982.
Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson, eds. Resistance Through Rituals. London:
Hutchinson, 1976.
Hirsch, Paul. "The Structure of the Popular Music Industry: An Examination
of the Filtering Process by which Records are Preselected for Public
Consumption". Ann Arbor, Michigan: Survey Research Center, The
University of Michigan, 1970.
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Selected Bibliography
Horkheiner, Max and Theodor W. Adorno. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment
as Mass Deception", in The Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York:
Herder and Herder, 1972.
Kreiling, Albert L. "Toward a Cultural Studies Approach for the Sociology
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of Popular Culture", communication Research, 5 (1978), 240-263.
Laba, Martin and Peter Narvaez, eds. Media Sense: Folklore and Popular
Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular
Press, 1984.
Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
McQuail, Dennis, ed. Sociology of Mass Communications. Harnondsworth,
England: Penguin, 1972.
Melly, George. Revolt into Style. HarnDnds&orth, England: Penguin, 1972.
Murdock, Graham. "Large Corporations and the Control of the Communications
Industries", in Gurevitch, Curran and Woolacott.
Murdock, Graham. "Mass Coimiunication and the Construction of Meaning", in
Reconstructing Social Psychology, ed. N. Armistead. Harnondsworth,
England: Penguin, 1974.
Real, Michael R. Mass-Mediated Culture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-
Hall, 1977.
Rosenberg, Bernard and David M. Mite, eds. Mass Culture: The Popular
Arts in Airerica. Glencoe: The Free Press, 1957.
Waites, Bernard, Tony Bennett and Graham Martin, eds. Popular Culture:
Past and Present. London: Croon Helm, 1982.
Williams, Raymond. Communications. Harnondsrth, England: Penguin, 1972.
Williams, Raynind. Culture. London: Fontana, 1981.
Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. London:
Fontana, 1974.
Willis, Paul. Learning to Labour. Westmead, England: Saxon House, 1977.
Willis, Paul. Profane Culture. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
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CMNS 353-4, THE SOCIAL IMPACTI
OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CMNS 453-5, THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
(ISC 84-1)
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary
Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Commitee held on
January 17, 1984 the above-noted courses were considered
and approved.
Would you please place these courses on the next
agenda of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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Ccnuunicaticn Course Proposals
AON FRASER UNIVER :TY
MEMORANDUM
Please place the following on the agenda for the next meting of
the Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
New Course Proposals:
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GINS 221-3 "Media and Audiences"
GINS 353-4 "The Social Impacts of Information Technology"
GINS 453-5 "The Information Society"
Change of Prerequisite Only:
CMS 360-4 "Fundarrentals of Communication Research"
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Change of Title Only:
CMNS 253-3 "Computers and Canru.inication"
Please note as per ISC 83-26 these course changes are part of the restructuring
of the departmental offerings to reflect our anticipated resources for the
forseeable future. The only further changes to he brought forward are in the
general introduction to the department in the calendar.
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Registrar's Note: ** These items were approved by
scus
on March 20, 1984.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE
STUDIES ?
NEW
COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information
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Department:
Carunication
Abbreviation Code: CMS
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Course Number:
353
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Credit Hours:
4
Vector:
2-2-0
Title of Course:
The Social Impacts of Information Technology
Calendar Description of Course:
This course examines a particular application of
information/cainunication
technology.
The examination focusses on the technology itself and its capabilities, how it is
implemented, and what social
impacts
it has an the people who use it.
Emphasis is
placed on understanding how the system works in the on-going social context in which
it
is developed,
installed, and used. The specific application studied may vary
fran sester to sister.
Nature of Course
lecture/seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
Q4S 253-3; Q4NS
130-3 recarmended.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
s
300-5.
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
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once per year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Spring 1985
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
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Richards, Melody
3. Objectives of the Course
This course is designed as the second in a three-course sequence, following generally
after
G
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JS 253-3, Computers and
Corriniunication*
which has been offered for sane time,
and another new course,
C'INS
453-5, The Information Society. The basic unifying theme
in the three courses is an assessment of the interplay between contemporary society
and new computer/communications technologies.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
Library: Holdings are fairly substantial in the area already, but a few
additional books and one or two additional journal subscriptions will be
Staff
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helpful.
Library
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Carputer: The course will make occasional use of both the University's
Audio Visual
canputinq centre (MIS) and the Dept. of Cannunication' s IBM Personal
Computer system. Depending on the Dept's ability to supplement the IBM
Space
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PC
with
sane
additional hardware and software, there may be a need for
Equipment
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additional time on the
campus
facility.
5.
Approval
Date: ?
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Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
* Note: Title changing to "Introduction to Information Technology". -
SCUS 73-34b: (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
attach course outline).
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New Course Proposal
Communication 353:
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The Social Impacts of Information Technology
This course examines a particular application of information/communication
technology. The examination focusses on the technology itself and its
capabilities, how it is implemented, and what social impacts it has on the
people who use it. Emphasis is placed on understanding how the system works
in the on-going social context in which it is developed, installed, and
used. The specific application studied will vary from semester to semester.
Prerequisites: CMNS 253; CMNS 130 recommended.
I. Rationale
This course is designed as the second in a three-course series, following
after CMNS 253, Introduction to Information Technology; and preceding CMNS
453, The Information Society.
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interplay
basic unifying theme in the three courses is an assessment of the
interplay between contemporary society and new computer/communications
technologies.
Where CMNS 253 is an introductory course which does not deal with social
impacts to any great extent, this course assumes students have some background
in the general area and focusses on a specific kind of application of the
technology in a particular context. The goal of this course is to provide
an introduction to social impacts of the new technologies and to illustrate
this introduction with a number of case studies. The focus os rather more
limited than that of CMNS 453, which examines societal issues on a much
broader scale.
II.
The Principal Instructor
William Richards has experience teaching and conducting research in
organizational communication and organizational applications of information
technology over the past seven years. He is a founding member of the
Laboratory for Computer and Communication Research at SFU, and is currently
conducting a two-year evaluation of the federal Department of Communication's
Office Communication Systems office automation field trial in the federal
Department of the Environment.
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III. Resources required
Library: Holdings are fairly substantial in the area already, but a few
additional books and one or two additional journal subscriptions will be
helpful.
Computer: The course will make occasional use of both the University's
computing centre (MTS) and the Department of Communication's IBM Personal
Computer system. Depending on the Department's ability to supplement the IBM
PC with some additional hardware and software, there may be a need for additional
time on the aampus facility. From time to time the course will also utilize
the Local Area Network system of the Laboratory for Computer and Communication
Research.
IV.
Frequency of Offering and Enrollment
once per year
between 30 and 50 students per offering
V. Format
The course is structured in a lecture/seminar format, with two 2-hour
sessions each week. It is essential that all students read carefully the
entire assignment in advance of the class session.
For each class session, three students will be assigned in advance as
primary respondents to the readings. Students are responsible for participation
in class discussions in all sessions. Each student will have three respondent
assignments during the semester.
VI.' Course Grading
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Assignment #1
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week 5
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20%
Assignment #2
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week 9
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25%
Term paper
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week 13 ?
35%
Participation
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20%
Assignment #1:
Compare and contrast two of the case study systems in the readings.
Focus the discussion on the capabilities of the two systems, the goals
of the systems, and the implementation processes used. Length -- 8 pages
typewri tten.
Assignment #2:
Discuss the social context in which two of the case study systems were
used. Identify relevant social issues and indicate how they are related to
the technology. Length -- 8 pages typewritten.
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Term Paper:
Pick three aspects of the social context in which the technology is
used that makes assessment of the social impact both important and difficult
to do. Explain why you picked these aspects, why they are important, and
why they make impact assessment difficult to do. Length: 15 pages, typed.
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Spring, 1985
CMNS 353-4
The Social Impacts of Information Technology:
The "Office of the Future" -- Office Automation Systems
Week #
Topic
1.
Introduction:
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the "office of the future" is here now.
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Information
technology -- off the
shelf and on
the drawing board.
2.
The 1960's and 70's
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-- a technology in its infancy. ?
The background
of office technology.
The Canadian
office automation industry.
3.
Into the 80's -- What
is ?
available
now? ?
What does it do? ?
How
does it work?
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Who is
using it?
4.
Case studies drawn from currently available organizational examples.
When possible, case studies will draw upon Canadian experiences.
5.
The social and technical components of electronic office systems I:
User needs and system design.
6.
Social and technical components II: the man-machine interface.
7.
Social and technical components III: avoiding 'non-solutions' for
users' needs.
8.
Evaluating electronic office systems I: needs, methods, consequences.
9.
Evaluating II:
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productivity assessment and cost/benefit analysis.
10.
Evaluating III: problems in technology assessment.
11.
The implementation of electronic office systems: problems and
methods.
12.
The management of electronic office systems: issues and dynamics.
13.
The "office of the future": for better or worse?
A schedule of specific reading assignments will be distributed the semester
before the course is offered.
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Readings
Required readings will be selected from the following:
The Automated Office Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1981.
The Electonic Briefcase ?
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Emerging Office Systems Landau, Bair, & Seigman (eds), 1982.
Office Automation ?
Don Tapscott, Plenum Press, 1982.
The Social Impact of Office Automation ?
P. Booth, DOC, 1983.
The Information Revolution and its Implications for Canada
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Serafini &
Andrieu, DOC, 1981.
Additional readings will be selected from other reports from DOC, IRPP,
Wescom, and Science Council.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Calendar Information ?
Department: Communication
Abbreviation Code:
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Course Number: 453
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Credit Hours: _Vector: 3-2-0
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Title of Course: The Information Society
Calendar Description of Course:
This course assesses the interplay between contemporary society and the new
computer/communications technologies, at the level of comprehensive theories
of society, on the one hand, and major public policy documents, on the other.
Central concepts reviewed include: post-industrial society, technological
rationality, the information economy, social impacts of new technologies,
and technocracy
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Nature of Course
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
CMNS 253-3 and CMNS 353-4, or permission of the instructor.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved: ?
402
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
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once each academic year
Semester in which the course will first be offered? 1985-1
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
W. Leiss,
W.D. Richards, L. Salter, W. Melody
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3.
Objectives of the Course
This course
is designed as the third and last in a sequence (following
CMNS 253-3, Computers and Communication*, and CMNS 353-4, The Social Impacts of
Information Technology. Whereas the earlier courses introduce the student to
some
of the specific areas where social factors interact with new technologies,
CMNS 453-5 takes up these issues at a theoretical andadvanced level.
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty none
Staff ?
none
Library none
Audio Visual none
Space
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none
Equipment none
5.
Approval
Date: 29 November 1983
Department Chairman
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Dean ?
Chairman, SCUS
* Note: Title changing to "Introduction to Information Technology".
SCUS 73-34b: (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
attach course outline).
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New
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ourse Proposal:
G'1N;'153, The InFormation_SucieI
1. Rationale
This course is designed as the third in :i three-course sequence,
following generally after Q'4S 253-3, Computers and Conununication, which
has been offered For
501k'
time, and another new course, c
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lNS 353-4, Social
Impacts 01
in lornia t I on Technology.
The basic, unifying theme in the three courses is an assessment of the
interplay between contemporary society and now computor/counminicat ions
technologies.
QS 453, The information Society, looks at this interplay on the most
general level, where academic writers as well as policymakers have considered
the most pervasive, reciprocal effects of the two components (society and
technology) on each other. On this general level, the effects are considered
to he fuiidaiiicntal ones, influencing many major aspects of social relations --
for example, privacy, the role of women in the workforce, international, trade
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position, oH
ice
occupational
in:in:igcineiit ,
st ilictures , etc.
l'hie reciprocal interplay of society and technology, especially in the
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(fl , conqni tc r/comnnln i cat ions technol og I
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wh(' re significant technical
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lolls are
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regular occurrence, is now an important subject area for
both academic research and public poiic:.y discussions. The basic purpose of
this new course is to tie together the academic and policy literature, to
examine each in the light of the other, and to assess both the theory and
practice of
flit' social developments that are suhsLnned tinder the designation
"The I nfonnat ion Soc I etv."
II. Principal Instructor's Qualifications
lVi.11iain Leiss has published a series of articles in the period 1970-
present on the general theme of the social consequences of technology (see
bibliography attached), as well as a related book, The Domination of Nature
(1972, 1974). lie has designed and taught courses similar to this proposed
course previously at York University and the University of Toronto. His
conference paper, "The Information Society" (1982), has been read at the
University of Calgary, Unjversité du Québec a Wntr6al, Trent University,
and McGill University.
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sessions each week. It is essential that a Ii students read carefully the
entire ass'ignmeiit- in ; v:iice of* the class session.
.
Week-by-Week Schedule
Week
Session
Topic
Assignment
1
I
Introduction to Course
II
Organization of Presentations
2
1
Historical Development
Kumar, chs. 1-5
TI
Technology and Society:
?
Introduction
Leiss, articles.
3
1.
Technological Rationality
Leiss, articles.
11
utopian View of Technology
Gendron, Part (lne.
1
1
I )ystp i
:III
Vi
OW
of' Technology
(k'ndron ?
Part 'No.
II
Socialist View of
Technology
,
Gendron, Part Three.
S
I
Post-Industrial Society
Bell, ?
Intro.,
?
ch. ?
1.
II
The Service Society
Bell, chs.
?
2-3.
6
1
Technocracy
Bell, chs.
?
4-6.
II
Critique of Bell
Bell, "Coda"; Kumar,
chs.
?
6-7.
.
7
1
Mid-Tenn Review
II
Technology as "Radical Monopoly"
8
I
Politics of Technology
II
Utopian Technologies
9
I
Concept of Information Society
II
The Information Economy
10
1
Values and Public Policy
II
"Mediation"
11
I
Policy Analysis
Ii
Impacts of Information Technologies
12
1
Case Studies in Social Policy
II
Reconunendat ions for Government Policy
13
1
Swmiary: ?
Technology and Society
II
Sununary: ?
Public Policy for the
Information Society.
Illich (complete).
Dickson, Introl, chs. 1-3.
Dickson, chs. 4-7.
Bell article
DOC Report
Rein, Intro., chs. 1-2.
GAMMA Report, Part 1.
Rein, chs. 3-4.
GAMMA Report, Part 2.
Rein, chs. 5-7.
Science Council Report
.2..
(MNS 453-S ?
- 2 ?
Course (itlinc
0
IC I
Ll
i
1cI
lUnjel BELL, I11e Coining of Post-] ndLlstItal Soc i cty
l)an I el BELL, ''The Social Framework of the Information Society.''
lUvid I)JCKSON, Alternative Technolog
y
and the Politics of Technical Caanc.
Bernard GLNDRON, Thc10 logy and the Hw
flhion.
Ivan I LLTQI, Too ls for Conviviality.
\:ili iun LEISS, "The False Imperatives of Technology" (collection of articles)
Mart i n REIN, Social Science and Public Policy.
I)epa rtnent of (;(un ul i cat. ion (Ot. taw
Implications for Canada."
"The I to
Revolution
nil, ti oii
and its
GAMMA, "The Information Society: The Issues and the Choices."
Science Coiuc ii of Canada, ''Planning Now for an Tnformation Society."
Weigh
2 S',',
?
(:la;s Pi(s
y
uI
at iin :iinl Rirt
in ipat lolL
)
?
Mid ?
lc'i'ut l';I[('n
i
?
i;i 1
?
I'ij
C, 1.
I.ver y
st iident, will
1)0 resJx)Ils
hi ?
or ?
rt
I C I pit
oii
III
Class
every session.
I
each session a number of st ud
n ;
will be
advance as prima rv-e s )olident s . Fiach student W.111 have four
during the semester.
discuss ioiis for
assigned in
such assignments
Mid -Term Paper:
Length: 10 pages (typewritten).
?
pc: discuss the chief strengths and
weae.sses in Daniel Bell's The cnnng of Post-Industrial Society. (Note:
Do not sinmiarize or paraphrase the text. Devote the entire paper to a
critical evaluation of the hook.
Final
Paper:
Length: 15 pages (typewritten). Topic: the following recommendation has
been made to the J)epartment of Canununicat ions, Ottawa:
T
he Government of
Canada should prepare a comprehensive set of policies to ensure that the new
information technologies become a major factor in influencing social change in
Canada. Evaluate this recommendation. (For exampl(-: What are the main features
. ?
of an "informationsociety"? What policies are appropriate in this context?
Should the federal and/or the provincial governirients have a broad policy
responsibility in this field -- or should it he left to private consumer and
producer decisions? Why?)
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SnIJ(.:i'Er) BEBL1cXRJ\.JIIY
R;il I
?
r(I ,
?
1. (; . ,
Ntiii
?
Iechnol(i y:
?
J'ow;inlstheM'siireiiientola
iT ?
(til
ture
I1TVr:,i i
i
?
I97
Michael S. , "Technology Assessment; arid Socai Control," Science, Ii 8(1,
4085, 4 May, 4()S-473.
Barrett, William, The Tilusion of Technique: A Search for Mea
Techiiolo ical Civilization (Anchor Press: 1978)
Butler, Clark, "Technological Society and its Counterculture: An Uegcl.ian
Analysis," Inquiry, 1975, 18, 2, Summer, 195-212.
Cotgrove, Stephen, "Technology, Rationality, and Domination," Social Studies
of Science, 1975, 5, 1 February, 55-78.
Friedmann,
G.
et. al., "The Social Consequences of Technical Progress,"
JnternationalThoTai Science Bulletin, IV (1975), 243-339.
Glarini, 0.,
et.
al., The Diminishing Returns of Techno1o': An Essay on
the Crisis 7n Irioinic Growth (Perg.non Press, 1978).
Greenwald, Howard P., "Scientists and Technocratic
Ideology," Social
Forces,
1979, 58, 2, lkceinber 630-650.
I lannav, N. B. ,ot. :il. . "I'hc Anal omy ot Modern t'echnoogy: Prolegomenon to
an Iutlj)roVed I idir ('H cv ir the oc hi 1 M Iaoywent
Of leChno1ot,y,",
Daedalus, 1980, I (t9, I , W
I 11tel
.
, .
?
53.
Leiss , Wil I jam, 'The l)unii nat ion
of__Nature, (Beacot Pi'e;s , I 971)
Leiss, William, "The Social Consequences of Technolo
g
ical Progress: Critical
Comments on Recent Theories," Canadian Public Administration, vol. XIII, no.
3 (Fall 1970), pp. 24(-2(2; republished undthe title
"e
Th
False
Imperatives of Technology," in David Shugarman (ed.), Thinking about Change,
(University of Toronto Press, 1.974), pp. 105-LA.
Leiss, William, "The Social Function of
Knowledge in
the Liberal Tradition,"
in Liberalism and the Modern Polity, ed., M. McGrath,
?
(New York:
Praeger, 1977), PP• 11.5-145.
Leiss, William, "Technological Rationality: Marcuse and his Critics,"
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. II, no. 1 (March 1972),
pp. 31-42.
"Technology and Degeneration: The Sublime Machine," in Degeneracy, ed.,
J.E. Chamberlin and S.L. Gilman (New York: Columbia University Press),
forthcoming, 1984.
"Technology and Instrumental Rationality in Capitalism and Socialism," in:
Technology and Communist Culture, ed., Frederic Fleron (New York:
Praeger, 1977), pp. 115-145.
[IJ
.
Leiss, William, "Utopia and Technology: Reflections on the Conquest of
Nature," International Social Science .Journal, vol. XXII, no. 4 (1970),
pp. 57-588 (French translation in Revue Internationale des sciences
SOChIICS,
vol. XX1 E, no. 4 (1970), pp.
627-638;
reprinted in N. Cross,
et. al. (eds . ) , Man-Made Ikitures (London: Ihitchinson , 1974) , pp.
20-30.
Leiss, Will iun, "A Value Basis for Conservation Policy," Policy Studies
Journal, vol.
¶),
rIO.
4 (1980-81),
pp.
613-622.
ic i'otc , Todd, et . a I . , ''Public. Attitudes toward Present and Future
1ee1uioloI. ies : Sat is factions and Apprehensions,
"
Social Studies of
5cience, 197S, ?
,
1, November,
373-398.
Ly
ons, Rut, ''An'
Iu.ki ii es
(1onFu;ed''"
1nj!iiy,
1979, 22, 4, Winter, 7)81-403.
Magat, Wesley A., "The Effects of flnvironmental Regulation on Innovation,"
Lw and Contemporary Problems, 1979,
43, 1,
Winter-Spring, 4-25.
Marciuse, Herbert, One-Dimensional. Man (Beacon Press, 1964).
Marcuse, herbert, "Some Social Implications of Modern Technology," .Journal
of Social Research, IN
(1941).
Pavitt,
Keith
ci..
al., Science Technology and the Modern Industrial State,
(But terwot'ths , I 977
Fu iedr uch, (iu!
H'iitI(
'
IlStu
a liii lo!iyiTccHoiogy :
?
Studies in the
't
i
ti.
I iii ?
of ?
lii ink
iii
?
iii
titi ?
ftLhu1olo'
I( dl ?
)i._,
c
n c.'. (1)
?
R idc I I'IJl)I 1,1)
I
np
I(_•1
Compaliv,
Rapp, Friedrich, ''The Pliys i cal and the Social k)uindat ions of Technology,"
Theory and
Decision, 1970,
10,
i-i, January, 201-2127.
Sabat icr, Paul, "The Acquisition and Utilization of Technical Information by
?
Adnui.uii strat ion Agenc ics ,'' Adu in istrat ive Science Qua rtdrl y , 1978, 23, 30
Sep temhe
r,
390-417.
Settle, Tom, "The Moral Dimension of Political Assessments of the Social
Impact of Technology," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1976, 6, 4,
December,
315-334.
Shriver, Donald W. , Jr., "Mati and his Machines: Four Angles of Vision,"
Technology and Culture, 1972,
13, 4,
October,
531-555.
Teich, Albert 11. (ed.), Technology and Man's Future (St. Martin's Press, c.
1977).
Thomas, D.E., Jr., "Diesel, Father and Son: Social Philosophies of
Technology," Technology and Culture, 19: 376-393, .July 1978.
3-
S
Winner, Langdon, "On Criticizing Technology," Public Policy, 1972, 20, 1
Winter, 35-59.
Winner, Langdon, ''Ih Art I lacts have Politics?" Daedalus, 1980, .109, 1
Winter, 121-136.
Winner, Langdon, Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-control as a Theme
for Political Thought (MIT Press, c. 1)77).
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To........
W
?
?
Secretary to the Senate Cmtee.
....... o..Uoderg.radua.te.Stu1ie.s
................
Subject ....
Prereiui.si te . C.hane. .CMNS. 360-.4........
Fundamentals of Communication Research
(ISC 84-1)
From.......
Faculty of I.D.S.
Undergrabate. Curriculupj.
Date ........ l9a4.u2?.l.6................................
.
Our File No. 1H1(i)
At a meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, held on Tuesday,
February
14, 1984,
members of the committee approved a
prerequisite change for the above-noted course as
follows:
OLD ?
45
semester hours credit; at least
2
lower ?
division courses in Communication
NEW ?
45
semester hours credit; including at
least
2
lower division courses in
Communication; and PSYC
210-3
or MATH
101-3
or
MATH 102-3.
Would you please place this item on the next agenda of
the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
-L% L
Janet Blanchet
JB :mf
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MIMoRANDUM
From ....... Jajp
•
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Administrative Assistant
To
..........
Registrar and Secretary to
the Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
.COURSE
..
TITLE
.
CMNS 253-3, INTRODUCTION TO
Date.........
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (ISC 84-1)
At a Meeting held on January 17, 1984 the following
change in title was approved:
OLD TITLE. CMNS 253-3, Computers and Communication
NEW TITLE. CMNS 253-3, Introduction to Information Technology
Would you please place this item on the next agenda of the
Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
JB/rj
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