| Course Title: Designing the Future |
| Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2024 |
| Description: For as long as there have been people, people have been thinking about the future. But who gets to decide what the future looks like? And what do our visions of the future reflect about ourselves? In this class, we'll use books, movies, and Mount Holyoke's own Archives to explore what people of the past and present imagined the future would be. We'll also engage in the practice of "futuring" to imagine possible, probable, preferable, and preposterous technological futures of our own and take a trip to the Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab to get familiar with some current technologies we can use to build tomorrow. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Alyxander Burns | ajburns@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 09:00AM - 10:15AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 126 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 12 | Enrollment: 16 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Binti (Binti, 1) Author: Okorafor, Nnedi Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0765385252 Publisher: Tordotcom |
Required | 10.99 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |