[Sfts-faculty] relevant courses next year

[Gloria Kim]

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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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
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