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The nature of knowledge is now changing in rather fundamental ways. Traditional ways of transmitting knowledge are being discarded as being too slow, and increasingly knowledge is negotiated rather than transmitted in the linear fashion that was characteristic of the Renaissance and post-Renaissance world.
The tools we use at work and in our leisure time are changing at a dramatic rate, too. Technologies that were state-of-the-art five years ago are museum pieces already, and the newest tools are likely to seem as outdated five years from now. So we will address that challenge, too: that of distinguishing the transient from the enduring in this age of flux.
The UAA Honors Seminar on the Information Age provides an opportunity for some of UAA’s best students to explore these and other related issues in an interdisciplinary setting.
As a student in the seminar you will introduced to technologies and ideas that are cutting-edge at the moment, and you will participate in ongoing study and discussion of the larger issues of the Information Age. You will explore these issues from the perspectives of the arts, biology, business, culture, economics, education, engineering, journalism, organizational theory, philosophy, politics, and social interaction. You will look at emerging issues in human behavior, creativity, communication, distribution of power and wealth, privacy, and ethics. You should also improve your ability to articulate ideas with depth and clarity, culminating in the development and presentation of a research project.
At the end of the seminar you should feel much better prepared for survival in the Information Age. Whatever your own discipline area, you will be better prepared to provide effective and ethical leadership in the application of information concepts.
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