[Sfts-faculty] relevant courses next year

Sun Jul 2 05:20:39 PDT 2023

Hi, All,
  I am scheduled to teach DNCE 244, a special topics class, entitled, Dark Matter(s) in Black Performativities. A transdisciplinary studio course.

Sage

Sage Ni'Ja Whitson

MFA, MFAW

they/them/theirs

Associate Professor

Departments of Dance and Black Study

University of California, Riverside

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Subject: Re: [Sfts-faculty] relevant courses next year

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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
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