[Sfts-faculty] relevant courses next year

[Chikako Takeshita]

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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>> Professor of Philosophy
>> University of California at Riverside
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> Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (she/her)
> Assistant Professor of Media and Culture
> Department of Media and Culture
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