My courses attempt to help students to sketch out some aspects of an overview that will be meaningful to them. Create a planet from stellar dust to sentient civilization. This course gives a broad, integrative overview of the natural and social sciences while engaging the students in creative thinking. A course examining how the way that people view themselves and the world is influenced by the technology that they use. The course focuses particularly on technologies that handle information.
Contemporary life focuses on our images, our exterior interfaces with each other.
Living in response to the bombardment of modern life is bewildering and disempowering. We can become actors, rather than reactors, if we can figure out who we are and what we need. Metaphor and Creativity Students use hands-on work with materials to create concrete metaphors that help them to visualize relationships in their lives. The outcome of education should be an educated person. This short course looks at ideas of what an educated person might be like, and examines concepts of personhood and their expression in a technological world.