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Show MONDAY-AUGUST2I •2006 orientation i//ue AS Classes you can't miss TECH 2000 Technology and Human Life. TECH 2000 Technology and Human Life is a new General Education course at UVSC designed to introduce students to how technology affects their lives and their future, according to Professor Wayne Hanewicz. The course covers, among other things, genetic engineering, stem cell research, information technology, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and psychopharmacology (technologies that affect the brain). "We will look at how these technologies affect the environment, culture, law, education, governance, global health, human evolution, modification of the human species, security, religion and spirituality," said Hanewicz. "We will spend substantial time studying the ethical issues that accompany these new technologies. The class will consist of lecture, discussion, audio-visual material, and interesting readings from books and the internet." Hanewicz said students might be interested in this course if they are interested in "alternative futures for our species. Students will learn how you can be part of creating the best future for you and your peers." said French. There are no prerequisites. The course satisfies elective credit for students of Psychology, as well as for students in the new Environmental Studies minor. For some students the course also counts as an Honors course. "The class will have a limited number of students with a discussion format," said French. "Speakers and fieldtrips will be provided. Students will have individualized options for a project, from a literature review to applied research." ment that intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin credits with radically shifting the way we live in and with the world." ENG.3740 Literature of the Sacred, Literary History of Adam and Eve "I believe understanding the Bible is essential to understanding our culture's literary history," said Professor Boyd Petersen, who will be teaching an English course this fall on the literary history of Adam and Eve. "I believe the narratives found in the Hebrew Bible are so basic to the human condiPSY475R tion that one really.can't help appreciating them as literary works Environmental Psychology whether one believes in God or INSTRUCTOR: Kathryn French not," said Petersen. DATE & HOUR: Tue & Thur. 10:00-11:15 Petersen points out the fact am. that the Judeo-Christian Bible has LOCATION: GT 610 significantly influenced much of CREDITS: 3 our popular and canonized literature written after the Bible. "The Hebrew Bible's narratives are so IS3500/Hum292R ingrained in our culture, that one (cross listed) simply must have some understanding of them to even .'get' Romanticism: German, English, something like The Simpsons." and American Arts and Sciences Over the course of the semesafter the American Revolutions. ter Peterson says students will Team taught by professors Mi- start out with the original biblical chaela Giesenkirchen and Scott text of the Adam and Eve narAbbott, students in this class will rative as found in Gen. 1-3 and read Mary Shelley's novel Fran- then look at the literary tradition kenstein first, "then ask what po- responding to that text-in Jewish litical-, scientific, philosophical, Midrash, Christian scripture and TECH 2000 aesthetic and social forces are at commentary, and Muslim comwork during this time to' make mentary. Following that, students Technology and human Life such a novel possible or likely," will read a handful of literary INSTRUCTOR: Cheryl A. Hanewicz adaptations of the narrative in according to Abbott. DATES & HOURS: Two sections avail"We'll look at the effects of Medieval plays, Milton's Paraable. First section: Tue. & Thur. 2:30Kant's, Fichte's, and Schelling's dise Lost, Romantic texts like 3:45 pm. Second section: Tue. & Thur. idealist philosophy, following on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and 5:30-6:45 pm the Enlightenment. We'll look Byron's Cain, not to mention one LOCATION: CS 721 or CS 402 at developments in science, in- of the first science fiction retellCREDITS: 3 cluding Benjamin Franklin's and ings by French symbolist author Galvani's experiments with elec- Villiers de l'lsle^Adam, and fitricity and a new anti-Newtonian nally several more contemporary PSY475R science focused on 'organicism,' versions like Bernard Malamud's which is a way of doing science God's Grace and Ursula LeGuin's Environmental Psychology that contributed to the literature "She Unnames Them." In addi"Though being offered for the produced by Goethe and to Dar- tion, students will view such films as The Truman Show, and Neil first time at UVSC, this course win's discoveries of evolution." Labute's The Shape of Things. "I [in Environmental Psychology] is "Psychology is a major con- also plan to include a look at the a standby at most other colleges," cern of Romantic thinkers," said said Professor Kathy French who Abbott. "We'll read an E.T.A. way the narrative is used in popuis the faculty adviser for the stu- Hoffmann story (he's most fa- lar culture, advertising, etc." said dent environmental group "Green mous for the Nutcracker ballet Petersen. "I think it's fascinating that Club." narrative) that Freud later analyFrench describes herself to ses. We'll discuss the same inter- a narrative that is thousands of students interested in registering disciplinary explosions of ideas in years old can have such a long life of retellings," said Petersen. for Environmental Psychology works by Shelley, Keats, and "I also believe that to understand as "passionate about the environWordsworth in England, and how a culture organizes its cosment" and emphasizes "integrat- Poe, Emerson, Hawthorn, Whitmos in creation narratives is to ing academic study with environ- man and Dickinson in the United understand its essential beliefs mental activism." For instance, States." French led the initiative to expand Scott said, "Romanticism was and values. To look at one sperecycling at UVSC. a broad, intercontinental, pur- cific, Western, creation narrative Students in the class will read posefully interdisciplinary moveDeborah Winter's The Psychology of Environmental Problems, and Canaries on the Rim: Living IS 3500/HUM 292R ENG 3740 Downwind in the West by Chris Ward. French describes the latter Romanticism: German, English and Literature of the Sacred, Literary Hisas "a fascinating account of Utah American Arts and Sciences after the tory of Adam and Eve being in the eye of a toxic chemi- American Revolutions INSTRUCTOR: Boyd Petersen cal environmental crises," and INSTRUCTOR: Team taught by Scott DATE & HOUR: Tue. & Thur. 5:30-6:45 says additional small readings Abbott and Michaela Giesenkirchen pm will be available on line DATE & HOUR: MWF 11:00-11:50 am LOCATION: LA 118 LOCATION: LA 215 This course explores human CREDITS: 3 behavior and the environment," CREDITS: 3 over the course of time can reveal changes in world view as well as where we are as a culture." "I think it will be a class that students in both religious studies and literary studies could enjoy," said Petersen. "But I also think, since Mormon culture actually has four canonized creation narratives (one ritual) there may be some broader appeal outside these disciplines." RLST366R Issues in Religious Studies: Mormon Theology and the Christian Tradition. "This course is, to my knowledge, the first of its kind offered anywhere in quite some time," said Professor Brian Birch, who will be teaching Issues in Religious Studies: Mormon Theology and the Christian Tradition, this fall. According to a promotional flier for the class, students will discuss issues ranging, "from the Godhead and the Trinity to notions of salvation and the afterlife. This new course will discuss the relations and differences of Mormon thought to the broader Christian tradition." "There has been a dramatic rise of interest in Mormonism from the broader academic community over the past several years," said Birch, "This class is an effort to contribute to greater understanding and appreciation of different approaches to Christian belief. The only prerequisite for the class is Ethics and Values, but it would be ideal if students have had some exposure to the academic study of religion before taking the class." Students will be reading texts from both LDS and non-LDS authors. Birch, who received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University, is the editor of Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology. "This is a newly formed society comprised of primarily LDS scholars interested in the academic study of Mormon beliefs and practices," Birch said. RLST366R Issues in Religious Studies, Mormon Theology and the Christian Tradition INSTRUCTOR: Brian Birch DATES HOUR: MWF 1:00-1:50 pm LOCATION: LA 019 CREDITS: 3 ciety, environmental ethics, and theology. "This course will be of interest to students rather broadly, not just to philosophy majors," ; Minch said. ' The class will cover such topics as "democracy, religion, economics, foreign policy, socialism, republicanism, liberalism, ecology, international relations, legal theory, culture, values, morality, technology, education, communitarianism, communism, feminism, etc." according to Minch. During the semester students will read The State of Democratic Theory by Ian Shapiro, Democracy (edited) by Philip Greene, and Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life by Frances Moore Lappe. "At a time when 'democracy' is valorized but rarely allowed to blossom, and when states which are minimally democratic seek to "spread democracy," this class will engage many contemporary questions," said Minch. "The class will explore and evaluate various conceptions of democracy, and discuss what might be done to deepen democracy insofar as doing so is a normative decision." PHIL490R Democratic Theory INSTRUCTOR: Michael Minch DATE&HOUR:Tue.&Thur. 10:00-11:15 am LOCATION: SA 304 CREDITS: 3 Reco. Facult tions COURSE: ENG. 373R: Literature of Cultures and Places, Gothic Literature INSTRUCTOR: Jan Wellington DATE & HOUR: Tue. & Thur. 1:00-2:15 pm LOCATION: LA 104 CREDITS: 3 COURSE: ENVT 2600: Skills for Humanitarian Projects INSTRUCTOR: Joel Bradford DATE&HOUR:Wl:OO-3:5Opm LOCATION: TBA CREDITS: 3 COURSE: HUM 292R: Topics in Humanities, Beat Generation Arts and Culture INSTRUCTOR: Alex Caldiero DATE&HOUR: MWF 1:00-1:50 pm LOCATION: LA 103 CREDITS: 3 Phil. 450R Democratic Theory COURSE: ENG. 471R: Eminent Authors, Bob Dylan INSTRUCTOR: Larry Harper DATES HOUR:MWF 11:00-11:50am LOCATION: LA 104 CREDITS: 3 Professor Minch, who will be teaching Phil. 450R Democratic Theory this fall, is a democratic theorist whose research explores the relationship between democracy and deliberation, civil so- COURSE: PHIL 450R: Science, Technology, and Medicine INSTRUCTOR: Laurelyn Whitt DATE & HOUR: Tue & Thur. 2:30-3:45 pm LOCATION: LA 104 CREDITS:,3 |