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Cybernetics: a New Liberal Arts Course

The Department of Technology and Society of SUNY at Stony Brook offers a dozen courses specifically designed for the 70 percent of campus undergraduates who are not majoring in engineering or the natural sciences. About ten years ago, Professor John G. Truxal, an electrical engineer who started our department, developed a new course (EST 320: Cybernetics) that has become the most popular course that we offer. About 4,000 students have taken the course; most of the undergraduates have been juniors and seniors.