WUSTL Course Listings Login with WUSTL Key
Search Results: Help Display: Open + Closed     Just Open     Just Closed View: Regular     Condensed     Expanded
1 course found.
GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (L21)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)
L21 German 240Mad Science? The Ethics of Knowledge, Technology and Knowledge in the German World3.0 Units
Description:This interdisciplinary lecture course explores the long pursuit of ethical questions concerning science, technology, and medicine in the German-speaking world. Beginning with the medieval period and extending into the present, the class examines a range of texts in order to track the transition from pre-Enlightenment notions of the human to the modern concept of the reasoning subject, from the embrace of technology in the 19th century to its murderous implementation under fascism in the 20th, from postwar debates about human nature to 21st-century debates about bioethics - asking how a culture that once espoused reason, knowledge, and technology as forces that could direct our inner and outer nature devolved in the early 20th century into myth, irrationalism, and genocide, and how in the aftermath of the Nazi period, German culture continues to wrestle with the quandaries of scientific and technological advancement in ways that raise more universal questions about the ethics of progress. Led by a faculty member from the German department with regular guest lectures by faculty from across the disciplines, including literature, history, the arts, medicine and philosophy. In conjunction with the lectures, students will read literary, critical, and historical writings that address the broader topics of the course. Possible session topics include: Medieval Concepts of Race; The Science of Witchcraft; Early Modern Midwifery; Nietzsche Reads Darwin; The Birth of Science as a Discipline; Making the Forensic Case for Ritual Murder; Sex in Vienna; Nazi Medicine Then and Now; Machine Monsters of the Modern Age; Body Worlds and Contemporary Bioethics. Twice-weekly lecture with one one-hour discussion section. Lectures, readings and discussions in English. Open to freshmen. Designations: TH, CD
Attributes:
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
Label

Home/Ident

A course may be either a “Home” course or an “Ident” course.

A “Home” course is a course that is created, maintained and “owned” by one academic department (aka the “Home” department). The “Home” department is primarily responsible for the decision making and logistical support for the course and instructor.

An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

Grade Options
C=Credit (letter grade)
P=Pass/Fail
A=Audit
U=Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
S=Special Audit
Q=ME Q (Medical School)

Please note: not all grade options assigned to a course are available to all students, based on prime school and/or division. Please contact the student support services area in your school or program with questions.


No section found for FL2024.