Overview
Description
Language and literature of science as a reflection of scientific and technological developments and their impact on society.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate the circumstances under which it is ethical to employ science (and the language of science) to make arguments about culture and values.
- engage in analysis of a variety of ethical issues at the intersection of science and culture to current problems such as sustainable agriculture, climate change, environmental toxicity, and water management.
- apply a range of critical and rhetorical modes of analysis to interpret works of literary science writing and science-based documentary film, with the ultimate objective of applying these modes of analysis to other problems involving science and culture.
- engage in effective composition and communication and the critical analysis and use of information as a means of addressing significant scientific and environmental issues and debates current in the culture.
- identify and characterize current scholarly debates (and the opportunities and challenges they present) that exist within current conversations about environmental problems, as well as the role of popular science writing and filmmaking in communicating these problems to the general public.
- analyze the multi-disciplinary, multi-generic and multi-media intersections of science-informed literature and film, with the goal of understanding the relationship of text to image in larger conversations about science and values occurring in the culture. In order to perform this synthetic, integrated analysis, students will necessarily need to engage in effective composition and communication and the critical analysis and use of information.