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From: susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow)
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 16:26:20 EDT
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In article <594@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) writes:
>> So, it must be good, eh?  By the way, it was used as a text -- at
>> least the year before publication it was -- at Indiana U (the Hoosiers).
>
>Used as a text? So what? At the University of Wisconsin (GO BADGERS!) you
>can take a course called "Poetry for Engineers" that uses some real
>*garbage* as texts.

Are you talking about 'Technology in Literature'? This was a class
in the General Engineering Dept. which I took 9 years ago. Some 
of the books which I remember reading include: All Quiet on the
Western Front, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (a poem by
T. S. Eliot), The Machine Stops (a short story by E. M. Forster),
and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Manitainance.
   Maybe the last one qualifies as 'junk', but the rest of these
certainly don't!


   Now, I have a question for everybody:
   If you were designing a course, for technological people,
covering different views of technology and its impact
on society;  which books, stories, or music
etc would you include?


                           Sue Brunkow
                     University of Wisconsin
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