CMLT-C 349 LITERATURE AND SCIENCE (3 CR.)
The intersection of literature and the arts with science and technology, including the representation of scientific discovery and perspective, the dramatization of science's impact on society, the image of the scientist as artist. May include literature by scientists, and the use of scientific methods of analysis for interpreting literature.
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Fall 2024
| Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEC | 3 | 30991 | Open | 9:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m. | TR | BH 243 | Potapowicz I |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 30991: Total Seats: 35 / Available: 1 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Topic: Time and memory
"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second." ¿ Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll What is Time? How does it relate to our daily experience and our sense of memory? How have the definitions of time, and our ability to measure it more precisely influenced literature and art ¿ and vice-versa? This C349 Science and Literature class will focus on novels, films, and theoretical works that explore various ways of understanding the human experience of Time and Memory. Here is a glimpse of the works on the syllabus: - Kurt Vonnegut¿s Slaughterhouse Five (1969) - Virginia Woolf¿s To the Lighthouse (1927) - Ruth Ozeki¿s A Tale for the Time Being (2013) - excerpts from Marcel Proust¿s In Search of Time Lost Time (1913) - film: Memoria (2021) by the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Tilda Swinton. - Life on Earth (La vie sur terre 1998) by the Mauritanian-born Malian film director Abderrahmane Sissako. - After Life (1998), known in Japan as Wonderful Life (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), dir. by Hirokazu Kore-eda. - Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, 1998) by German director Tom Tykwer. - La Jetée (1961) by French director Chris Marker. The theoretical text, written for a wide audience, will be: Carlo Rovelli¿s The Order of Time (2017). Excerpts, videos/podcasts, and short texts by other writers and thinkers will include popular scientists and literary authors: theologian St-Augustine, psychologist Mary Sturt, philosopher Martin Heidegger, physicists Dean Buonomano and Jimena Canales, Bill Nye, and Zen master D¿gen. Join us to study the fascinating ways in which thinkers, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and filmmakers worked to conceptualize time and memory! (No scientific background is required.)
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