“Progress Studies for Aspiring Young Scholars: An Online Summer Program in the History of Technology for High School Students”, 2020-05 ():
[2020] Progress Studies for Young Scholars is an online program of guided self-study in the history of industrial civilization for high school students.
This program will explore: what problems, challenges and hardships in life and work were faced by people in earlier generations and centuries? And how did we solve those problems through science, technology, and invention?
Learn about manufacturing from blacksmiths to assembly lines; about power from water wheels to combustion to electricity; about food from famine to industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops; about disease from basic sanitation to scientific medicine—and the struggles and circumstances of the men and women who worked to bend the arc of humanity upward.
Your learning will be supported by instructors who will help you develop your reasoning and research skills. You’ll also have the chance to engage ideas with a community of like-minded peers…A six-week course with daily reading, audio or video content. Go through it on your own, or join a study group with an instructor for daily online discussions and Q&A.
Speaker series: Danica Remy · Deirdre Nansen McCloskey · Adam Mossoff · Anton Howes · Joel Mokyr · Laura Mazer · Manjari Narayan · Matt Bateman · Max Roser · Sarah Constantin · Tyler Cowen · Jason Crawford · Jerry Neumann · Michael Dearing · Michael Strong · Noor Siddiqui · Patrick Collison · Samo Burja