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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2017 |
Registration ID | ENGLB260001 |
Course Title | Origin Stories |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | English |
Instructor | Schneider,Bethany |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | EHII |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1197 This course is part of the "Origin Stories" 360. It will begin with an examination of "Western" origin stories and philsosophies of progress and history, with the intention of both historicizing and "making strange" the cultural inheritances most prevalent in Europe and post-contact North America. We will then turn to an in-depth analysis of the Diné Bahane', or "Story of the People," the creation cycle of the Navajo, focusing attention on a geographically specific and temporally non-linear philosophy of origin and continuity. We will conclude with a series of contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy engagements with the problem of origin, asking how we continue to reinvent our beginnings, and why. Throughout the course we will turn our attention to origin stories from various parts of the world that might specifically illuminate the science in the other two courses. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC);, ; Enrollment limit;15: Part of 360: Origin Stories. 360 Description: This year-long cluster will explore the intersections of scientific, philosophic and humanistic ways of thinking about, writing about, and visually representing ways we look at origin stories. From a scientific perspective, we will focus on the core scientific principals related to Cosmology, Physics, Biology and Geology that address fundamental questions regarding the origins of the universe, time, stars, the Earth, and its inhabitants. The scientific perspective will be balanced by the humanist view, though which we will examine cultural and historical expressions of the problem of "beginning”, paying close attention to Dine (Navajo) and Greco-Roman/Christian cultural narratives, and contemporary Science Fiction fantasies about origin. 360 Application: https://www.brynmawr.edu/academics/special-academic-programs/360-course-clusters/upcoming-clusters/fall-2016-application-2 |
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