“Flight Culture and the Human Experience” provides students with a cross-cultural, multi-media survey of flight’s social, cultural, political, and military impact on world history. Among the numerous topics that will be addressed in this course are: the physics of flight; the impact of aviation on twentieth-century art; the development of civil and commercial aviation; cinematic images of flying; the airplane as an instrument of war, and contemporary developments in the aviation industry. Passengers who successfully complete the journey will disembark with a better understanding of the airplane’s role as an agent of social and political transformation as well as a greater understanding of the centrality of cultural factors in contributing to technological development and modernization around the globe.
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