Our devices are important tools. They provide connection, allow us to complete academic and career-based work and engage in hobbies, and provide a way to find answers and generate ideas, to name a few. Use of technology can also negatively impact overall wellbeing psychologically, physically, socially, and academically. This course addresses the ways in which technology can detract from and contribute to a person’s overall wellbeing and strategies for engaging with technology in ways that are safe, private, productive, and helpful. Public health and psychology frameworks will help students explore society’s ties to technology.
prereq: Undergraduate or PSEO student.