| Title: | Pandemic |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-17 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | HYBRID COURSE FRT-101-17: PANDEMIC Agata Szczeszak-Brewer has more Zs in her name than you do. She is a professor of literature, a writer, and a gardener. She has been at Wabash since 2006 and teaches British, Irish, and South African literature, Science Fiction, and writing. Pandemics have changed the course of history and the make-up of societies, inspired artists, prompted philosophers to think about isolation and control, and revealed human selflessness as well as human capacity for evil. In this tutorial, we will read and talk about disease from Black Death to AIDS and analyze the rhetoric of plague and infestation. We will discuss the ecology, biology, and politics of disease. The field of Medical Humanities has long focused on the social ecology of pandemics, and it will guide our approach to real and imagined disease: the bubonic plague, the cholera pandemic, the Spanish Flu, AIDS, and COVID-19. We will also look at how images and emotions associated with infection have been employed in anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and fascist propaganda to invoke fear of the other. We will read selections from Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Albert Camus, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, JM Coetzee, and Ling Ma; watch Panic in the Streets and Angels in America; listen to an opera (Feast in the Time of Plague); and play Resident Evil 7: Biohazard as well as a popular board game Pandemic. Visiting speakers from across academic disciplines (Biology, Global Health, Political Science, History, Art) will help us understand the topic and form questions for our final podcast project. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 12, 2020 |
| End Date: | November 24, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/13/2020-11/24/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Center Hall, Room 216
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| Faculty: | Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata |
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