Core course:

11483

HIST 144 History of Experiment: Experience and Scientific Method in the Western World

Gregory Moynahan

. . W . F

3:10 pm– 4:30 pm

HEG 308

HIST

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities (core course), Science, Technology & Society (core course) The scientific method and the modern form of the scientific experiment are arguably the most powerful inventions of the modern period. Although dating back in its modern form to only the sixteenth century, the concept of the experiment as an attempt to find underlying continuities in experience has numerous origins stretching back to earliest recorded history. In this course, we will look at several different epochs' definition of experiment, focusing on the classical, medieval, and finally renaissance era to the present. Throughout, we will understand the concept of experiment as closely connected with an era's broader cosmology and definition of experience, and as such will see the epistemological problem of the experiment in a framework that includes aesthetics, theology, ethics and politics. We will also assume that "experiment" has taken different forms in the different sciences, and even in fields such as art and law. Authors read will include Aristotle, Lucretius, DaVinci, Leibniz, Newton, Goethe, Darwin, Curie, Tesla, Einstein, Schroedinger, Pasteur and McClintock. Class size: 22

Cross-listed courses, see primary section for descriptions:

11616

ART 200 Cybergraphics II: Graphic Novel

Hap Tivey

. . W . .

10:10 am -1:10 pm

FISHER

PART

11604

ART 206 KL Sculpture II: Network Art

Kristin Lucas

. . . . F

10:10 am -1:10 pm

AVERY 333

PART

11575

ARTH 289 Rights and the Image

Susan Merriam

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

OLIN 102

AART

11436

BIO 122 The Science of Creativity

Amy Savage

M . W . .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

RKC 115

SCI

11646

FILM 353 Virtual Environments

Ben Coonley

. . . Th .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

AVERY 117 / 333

PART

11529

MUS 237 Machine-Made Music, Past and Present

Alexander Bonus

. T . Th .

10:10am - 11:30 am

BLM N217

AART

11726

THTR 360 Going Viral: Performance, Media, Memes

Miriam Felton-Dansky

. . . . F

10:10am - 12:30 pm

OLIN 202

AART

11697

LIT 2195 Why Do They Hate Us? Representing the Middle East

Dina Ramadan

. T . Th .

10:10am - 11:30am

OLIN 107

FLLC

11314

LIT 3018 Medievalisms

Maria Cecire

. T . . .

3:10 pm -5:30 pm

OLIN 309

ELIT

11736

LIT 341 The Book Before Print

Marisa Libbon

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

HEG 300

ELIT

11842

CMSC 118 Hapax Legomena and the words we use: Computing for the Digital Humanities

Rebecca Thomas

. . W . .

3:10pm-4:30pm

RKC 100

N/A

11479

HIST 314 Violent Cultures and Material Pleasures in the Atlantic World

Christian Crouch

. . . Th .

10:10am - 12:30 pm

OLIN 303

HIST

11708

HR 318 Persons and Things

Ann Seaton

M . W . .

1:30pm - 2:50 pm

OLIN 107

ELIT

11711

HR 412 Re-reading "The Family of Man"

Thomas Keenan

. T . . .

10:10am - 12:30 pm

CCS

AART