CORE 443 - The Proper Order of Things?

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

CORE CURRICULUM

Description:

Prerequisite: Core seminar, required for graduationCore 101 through 105 and at least sixth semester standingFrom the Monopoly board game to the Periodic Chart, we take theworld we live in and put it in order. Understanding how things arecategorized gives us a power over our world and finding a new wayto order our world results in ground breaking discoveries. Just thinkof the scientific advances made possible once we understood thatthe planets revolve around the Sun instead of the Earth! This courseinvestigates the history of set structures and categories established inour own primarily European-based culture, and compares them withhow people organize their world in other cultures of contemporaryand ancient Asia, Africa, Oceania and Native America.Readings include selections from: Mark Francis and RandolphHester, Jr. (eds.), The Meaning of Gardens: Ideas, Place andAction (on landscape design); Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine,Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display(on classification of artifacts); Martin W. Lewis and Karen Wigen,The Myth of the Continents: A Critique of Metageography (onclassifications of geography and mapping); Harriet Ritvo, The Platypusand the Mermaid, and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination;Nathan Spielberg and Bryon D. Anderson, Seven Ideas that Shookthe Universe; Mark Turner, The Literary Mind; and excerpts fromcontemporary films: Party Girl, Angels and Insects, A Day on theGrand Canal With the Emperor of China.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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