ACS 500

This course focuses on volatile themes of contemporary and post-modern experience, as the world is opened up to the voices of the "other". The marginalized, and thinkers and artists of other cultures, expand and destabilize the boundaries of the human, while discoveries of genetic science suggest something of the profound unities that underlie the evolution of human diversity. The ideas to be considered range from the genome project to contemporary architecture to the Uncertainty Principle.