Schedule – Spring 2005

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1/13

Syllabus & Orientation

Technology: Must We Use It?

"Why Use Technology?"

"Web Definitions of Technology"

"Definition of Technology"

"Does Technology Mean Progress?"

 Print out syllabus and bring to class

Review links 

1/18 - 
1/20

 Meddling with Mother Nature "What is Genetic Engineering?'
Dupont Short Course in Biotech
"Playing Ecological Roulette"
"Genetic Engineering: The Future of Foods?"
"Are Bioengineered Foods Safe?"		 Monsters Conference: 
General Information

Monsters Conference:
Getting Started

1/25 -
1/27

Designing a Better Human:

The Morality of Genetic Modification

Caplan/Elliott

"The Ethical Dangers of Genetic Engineering"

New: Of Mice and Men -- Genetic Engineering and Sport

  Study Question 1: Due 1/25

Monsters Conference Topics

Monsters Conference Groups

2/1 -
2/3

   Analyzing Frankenstein Making Money, Making Monsters

Frankenstein

An Introduction

 Study Question 2: Due 2/4 in my box, 
Morrill 407, or by email to Stacey at isisjean@aol.com 

Conference Matrix

2/8 -
2/10

 Doing Science and Playing God:
The Moral of the Story		 Frankenstein

McKeever on Frankenstein

Literary Analysis

Morality and Frankenstein

Reasoning in Frankenstein

Abstract for Mini-Project #1:
Due 2/8

 Group Proposal: Due 2/9

Study Question 3: Due 2/10

Monsters Conference Paper Assignment

2/15 -
2/17

 The Monster and the Mind

 

Biotechnology and Crops

 

Frankenstein

Handout on Genetically Modified Crops in Society: Websites and Reading

 

Reading for 2/15 Lecture

 

  Mini-Project #1: Due 2/17
2/22 -
2/24 		2/22: Finishing Frankenstein

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2/24:  Freaks

 

 Frankenstein

A Critique of Impure Reason

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 The Sideshow

 

Study Question 4: Due 2/22

 

Abstract for Conference Paper: Due 2/24
3/1 -
3/3
3/1: Freaks

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3/3: Of Androids and Toads:
You Can't Tell the Monsters
Without a Scorecard

 

 Freaks: The Movie

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 Blade Runner

Monsters or Freedom Fighters?

February 28, 7:00-9:00 pm, CNR 10:
 Blade Runner / The Movie

Study Question 5: Due 3/4 in my box or by email to Stacey.

Blade Runner / The Book

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3/8 -
3/10

 What Makes Us Human?

 

Blade Runner

 

The Idea of the Person

 

Can Machines be Persons?

 

Gods and Monsters

 Mini-Project #2: Due 3/10

Leave Sketchbook/Journal with Michael & Stacey: 3/10

3/15 -
3/17

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Spring Break
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3/22 -
3/24

 Darkness and Monstrosity:
Revenge, Vigilantism, and Death
 
Batman

Reading Comics & Batman's Monsters

Is Batman a Monster?

 

Study Question 6: Due 3/22

 

First Electronic Portfolio Check: 3/24

 

Student Web Help

 

Cartoon and Comic Art Examples

 

3/29 -
3/31

 And Now, For Something Completely Different...
 
3/29: Film and Storyboarding

Dean Panttaja, Theater and Film

3/31: Research at the Library

Room 212A; Meet at the Reference Desk at 2:00

 Study Question 7: Due 3/31

INPC website: Extra credit opportunities

Lecture: The Epistemology of Monstrosity

Storyboard Cell Worksheet

4/5 -
4/7

 The Holocaust

Maus

 

Reading/Viewing Maus

Batman 4/4, CNR 10, 7 pm

4/12 -
4/14

 The Holocaust

Maus

 

 

Mini-Project #3: Due 4/12

 

Study Question 8: Due 4/14

 

4/19 -
4/21

 

4/19: Genocide

 

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4/21: Presentations

 

TBA

 

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Conference Time Schedule

4/26 -
4/28

 Presentations

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5/3 -
5/5

  

5/2-5/3: Monsters Conference

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5/5: Evaluations

 

May 3:  No Class

5/10 -
5/12

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Finals Week

Conference Paper Due: 5/9

 

Electronic Portfolio Due: 5/11