Torin Monahan's Course at Arizona

Torin Monahan has a great surveillance course at Arizona State University. He sent me the link to the syllabus, and a PDF version, too. Here's the introduction and a link: "How are surveillance technologies altering social life in post-9/11 worlds? This course will explore this question by mapping the complex ways that technologies and societies interact to produce security, fear, control, and/or vulnerability. Some of the areas covered include anti-terrorism legislation, close-circuit television (CCTV) in public and quasi-public spaces, biometric technologies on the border, and a host of monitoring technologies in cyberspaces, workplaces, and the home. Readings will be drawn from the social sciences, science-fiction, and popular media. Several films will be shown to facilitate critical inquiry into the shaping of popular perceptions about the future and our role in its creation. The class is designed to give students freedom to develop and express their own ideas. The course goal is for you to cultivate a technological literacy that will allow you to analyze and critique surveillance technologies as social entities."

The link address is: http://www.torinmonahan.com/courses/surveillance.html