Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3461 Section 001: Monsters, Robots, Cyborgs (15067)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed, Fri 02:30PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 155
Course Catalog Description:
Historical/critical reading of figures (e.g., uncanny double, monstrous aberration, technological hybrid) in mythology, literature, and film, from classical epic to sci-fi, cyberpunk, and Web.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL3461+Fall2016
Class Description:
Monsters, Robots and Cyborgs is a theoretical and historical investigation of these three figures of radical difference. The monster not only gives birth to robot and cyborg, it embodies the fantasies of aberrant reproduction and indestructibility that will characterize its technologized mutations. The course will provides you with a critical genealogy of the monster, robot and cyborg; it will will emphasize relationships between oral tradition and literary forms, ancient perspectives and modern practices, myth and technology, monstrosity and human rights, psychoanalysis and science fiction, and cyborgs and the body politic. Something, you might say, for everyone.
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
Workload:
80 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/15067/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 July 2008

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