[Sfts-faculty] relevant courses next year

[Tim Labor]

My MCS class Music in Science Fiction was an MCS highlight last year, and
is scheduled for 2024. In addition (and in the same quarter) I am scheduled
to teach MCS 003 (VR Game production using Gravity Sketch and Unreal
Engine), which might also be interesting.

Tim


On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 9:24 AM Chikako Takeshita <chikakot at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Both Eric's and Gloria's courses sound so interesting! I wish I could take
> them!
>
> Chikako
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:18 AM Gloria Kim <gloriak at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sherryl,
>>
>> I hope you're well! Thanks for reaching out with this.
>> (Eric, that sounds like such a great course - I wish I could take it).
>>
>> I'm teaching one course each quarter that SFSC students would be
>> interested in. Each course is listed under a generic course name for now
>> (and I'm working on getting each listed under their own course
>> tities/numbers in the future). Here are two brief descriptions:
>>
>> WINTER I'll be teaching the MCS Senior Seminar (MCS 134) on "Imagining
>> Extreme Environments."
>>
>>    - This course looks at histories, narratives, and technologies of
>>    perception as they are recast in extreme environments. A focus on extreme
>>    environments -"extremis" as the last point of life, the end of it, outside
>>    of it, or beyond it - brings us to analyze the specificity of their
>>    conditions (thermatics, pressure, saturation, whiteouts, weightlessness,
>>    and so on) as they shape the work of thinking, narrating, sensing, and
>>    transmitting. We explore both past and contemporary projects to reimagine
>>    habitability and rebound life in the contexts of inhospitable worlds.
>>
>> SPRING I'm teaching MCS /ENG 146F (listed under Technologies of the
>> Visual) I am teaching "Elemental Media" again. We've done this one with
>> SFCS before, but here is a short excerpt from the syllabus as a quick
>> refresher:
>>
>>    - How can thinking through an elemental matter, like dust, tell us
>>    about the experience of time, labor, and the body in contemporary media
>>    cultures? What is concealed by the insubstantial language of "the cloud"
>>    (as in cloud computing) and why might one be better off looking down
>>    into the earth, rather than up to the skies, to study it?  Media culture
>>    relies on being able to draw on metaphors, systems, processes, and
>>    materials of the elemental world; for example, while the internet is often
>>    imagined as an ethereal network, it is only made possible by the existence
>>    of the ocean, and complex AI systems would not exist without legions of
>>    offshored and exploited laboring bodies. This course cultivates a
>>    materialist literacy around media, examining media
>>    as human/technology/nature formations. Through this, we retheorize core
>>    concepts of media studies by examining media in its inseparability from the
>>    elemental world.
>>
>> Best wishes to all,
>> Gloria
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 5:21 PM Eric Schwitzgebel <eschwitz at ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> SFCS students might be interested in Philosophy of Mind, PHIL 134, in
>>> Fall of 2023.  Most of the course treats the "mind-body problem" -- how
>>> consciousness can arise from physical stuff or whether something
>>> non-physical is needed.  Near the end of the course, SF themes come in,
>>> including robot consciousness, alien life, and teleportation.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:34 AM Sherryl Vint <sherrylv at ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear faculty,
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to update the SFCS website with the courses that will be
>>>> offered next year that are eligible for the DE. Could you let me know if
>>>> you are teaching anything in scope next year and, if so, provide the Course
>>>> Name, Number, and Title.
>>>>
>>>> thank you,
>>>> Sherryl
>>>> Sherryl Vint (she/her)
>>>> Professor and Chair, Department of English
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>>
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>>
>> Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (she/her)
>> Assistant Professor of Media and Culture
>> Department of Media and Culture
>> CHASS South Building, INTS 3137
>> University of California-Riverside
>> 900 University Avenue
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