| Title: | Freshman Tutorial |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-03 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | The Automobile and American Culture Preston Bost teaches Psychology, is an avid runner and sports fan, and owns a minivan that he imagines trading in for a Corvette someday. In September 1893 brothers Charles and Frank Duryea tested what was to become America's first commercially produced gasoline-powered automobile, the Duryea Motor Wagon. The Motor Wagon was not fast, or agile, or commercially successful, but the Duryea brothers recognized the potential for the automobile to capture the imagination - and money - of American consumers. Within ten years, over one hundred companies were producing automobiles, racing competitions were popular events, and the era of the horse-drawn carriage was effectively over. Over one hundred years later, Americans' infatuation with the automobile is as intense as ever; this course is about how the entire landscape of American life - work, relationships, finances, and popular culture, to name a few - is shaped by our collective relationship with cars. Over the course of the semester, we will examine the automobile from a wide variety of angles. How are cars designed, produced, advertised, and consumed? What effect has the automobile had on the shape of cities and their architecture? What is the role of automobile production in the nation's economy and the lives of its workers? How has the automobile impacted the lives of women? How does the depiction of automobiles in popular culture capture our ideals and aspirations? Why does driving still get so many people killed, and how can we solve that problem? What will future cars look like and why? How did Indiana become a hotbed of automotive production in the early 20th century, and how did it lose that status? .and how would your life change if you were not able to use a car? |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 23, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2018 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/23/2018-12/13/2018 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 301
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| Faculty: | Bost, Preston |
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