MSC-549 Psychology of Technology4 semester credits
The rise in new technology reveals the shift in how people receive information and how behavior is changing. Every person, business and industry can be affected by technological disruption. Correspondingly, there is a need to understand technology and how it impacts behavioral, attitudinal and social change. The more advanced technology becomes, the more people’s lives can become mediated by these tools. Thus, technology has the potential to both disrupt and broaden how people work, heal, learn and connect.
This course invites students to understand new technologies and the relation between human behavior and their potential for impacting social change. This course will strive to provide current information, varying perspectives and will be practical and informed by theory and research. Each week students will be introduced to a different technology, technological application or technology solution, such as AR, VR, AI, robotics and medical/clinical innovations. Ethical practices will be examined with a focus on understanding how new technology can positively impact human behavior.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
- Demonstrate an understanding of how the use of technology helps or hinders social communication, group dynamics, and social change.
- Understand and explain the influence of technology on human cognition, to critically evaluate the effects of media technology.
- Identify how psychological theory applies to technology use and its influence on human behavior.
- Develop solutions that use technology to impact well-being, social change, positive behavior and transformative change.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the connection between technology, ethical issues and research and the implications in technology use.
- Understand the current literature on attitudes and cognitive dissonance and how it can be applied to technology use and the effect on behavior.
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