Lecture Notes & Handouts

 

Lecture Notes

Date
Topic

January 20

Genetic Engineering and Playing God

January 25

Ethics and the Moral Evaluation of Genetic Engineering

February 1

Making Money, Making Monsters

February 3

Frankenstein: An Introduction

February 10

Morality and Frankenstein

February 15

Biotechnology and Crops

February 22

Reasoning in Frankenstein

A Critique of Impure Reason

February 24

The Sideshow

March 8

Bladerunner and the Idea of the Person

March 10

Gods and Monsters

March 22

Reading Comics & Batman's Monsters

March 24

Is Batman a Monster?

March 29

The Epistemology of Monstrosity

April 5

Reading/Viewing Maus

 

Handouts

Topic
Title

Library & Research Materials

Link
Analyzing Monsters
Monster Rubric #1

Monster Rubric #2
Defining Monsters
Concepts and Conditions

Reflections on Monsters

Technology

Technology: Promise or Threat?

Tools, Technology, and Human Identity

Genetically Modified Crops in Society: Websites and Reading

Frankenstein

McKeever on Frankenstein

Literary Analysis and Frankenstein

Conference Work

Group Assignments

Blade Runner

Can Machines be Persons?

 Electronic Portfolio

The Assignment

Student Web Help

Storyboard Mini-Project

The Cell Worksheet


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