AST 389: Science Fiction

Learning Outcomes

Updated 16 January 2018

AST 389 satisfies the STAS (Understand Relationships between Science or Technology and the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences) SBC category. As such, it must include the following learning outcomes:

  1. Apply concepts and tools drawn from any field of study in order to understand the links between science or technology and the arts, humanities or social sciences.
  2. Synthesize quantitative and/or technical information and qualitative information to make informed judgments about the reciprocal relationship between science or technology and the arts, humanities or social sciences.
In this class we use science and technology (introduced through lectures and the non-fiction readings) as a tool to examine various gedankenexperimente, largely in the social sciences, as presented in the readings (arts and humanities).

The two learning outcomes will be assessed in assignments b and c . Students are asked to balance the quantitative scientific and technical tools with appropriate creativity in their assignments.