Simple proofs of famous mathematical theorems will be analyzed. Students will learn to critically read text, as well as to speak and write clearly and with proper style. The Art and Politics of Science Fiction. We will examine the literature and film of a future world where technology infuses life and life technology. From Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee to William Gibson's Neuromancer, we will explore how technology effects how we construct cities, bodies, minds, and realities.
Philosophy is a contemplative endeavor.
Socrates, Plato, Boethius, David Hume, Thoreau, Sartre, and Bertrand Russell and see why they thought that thinking was advisable, as well as what they saw as its dangers and limitations. Native American Voices. Native American poetry and fiction will enrich our experience. We will glimpse traditional gender roles, religious beliefs, and relationships to the land. We will also consider their accounts of cultural confrontation and adaptation.