Day: First fivc Fridays, 10:00-11:50 a.m., Psychology 1902
Field trip 4/24/09 (Location TBA). Transportation will be provided.
Enrollment Code: 57570
Description:
What are tools? Do they have to be something we can see and grasp with our hands? We use them for manufacturing and artistic creation, but is it also possible that contact with tools changes the way we think and create things? With readings from the humanities and social sciences (including psychology and anthropology), this seminar will consider the different ways people think about tools and instruments. You will never look at a hammer the same way again.
Professor Jocelyn Holland, German, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, teaches in German and Comparative Literature. Her focus is literary studies (18th – 20th century) with a subfield in the history of science. This course relates to her new book project. She has taught European lit. from Renaissance through the present as well as special topics (German media and politics, Metamorphosis, Chaos and Literature).
Email: holland@gss.ucsb.edu
