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Class number:
3235
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Title: Powers of Observation |
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Department: Humanities Gateway |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Cocco, Sean |
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Prerequisite(s): Only students in the Humanities Gateway Program are allowed to enroll in this course. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr + Hum Requirements |
Course Description:
Human observation of nature is as fundamental as our biology, as unique as our individual sensoria, and as varied as our cultures and histories. Observation frames the present, but it can help humans envision detail and intimacy across chronological and spatial distances. Deep etymologies of the word in English speak, from older languages, of a skilled, protective, and reverent closeness before a thing. This course takes a historical approach to introducing you to the powers of observation. We will study evidence of past ways of seeing and sensing nature, and through our own acts of reading, writing, and observing, we will build our skills of noticing. Our work will acknowledge precarious futures and raise hope from knowledge of human interdependence and assemblage with the living world. |