TLC 360 - Senior Seminar in Technology, Literacy, and Culture
(44695)

Samuel Wilson
TLC Office, Gebauer 1.208 - 232-7345
Anthropology - s.wilson@mail.utexas.edu

The idea behind the TLC program is that it combines a scholarly sophistication concerning the social impacts of technology with hands-on experiences that afford deeper understanding of the changing nature of technology in our lives. The senior seminar is conceived as a capstone course, allowing students the opportunity to pull together the various themes and strands of their undergraduate education.

Because of the diversity of students completing the TLC concentration, the course is organized flexibly. It is almost always, however, organized around a major project, akin to an honors thesis. Indeed in many cases the projects completed in this course serves as an honors thesis, even though most of the projects are carried out in new or non-traditional media (web sites, animations, films, audio projects, or combinations of these things).

The first thing to do is to meet with the instructor and find out if this is the right course for you. Ordinarily it is one of the last TLC course you take, and it is generally taken in your senior year.