Time Schedule:
Amy R. Peloff
CHID 496
Seattle Campus
Credit/no credit only.
Class description
AUTUMN 2005
CHID 496 FOCUS GROUPS
Focus Groups serve an important function in CHID. They often begin when a couple of students want to do reading on a particular topic, and discuss ideas with others who share this interest. Students typically organize and lead focus groups under the supervision of the CHID Advisor, or a graduate student or faculty member affiliated with CHID. Students typically register for two credits of CHID 496 (C/NC) for each focus group, and four credits total of CHID 496 can apply toward the CHID degree. If you are interested in participating in any of the focus groups listed below, please contact Jeanette at chid@u.washington.edu.
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SLN 2622 B 2 F 330-450
NEW MAJOR FOCUS GROUP This course is designed to introduce new majors to the CHID programits philosophy, structure, faculty, and students. The goals are: (1) To provide new students with a cohort of CHID majors and to help situate them within the CHID community. (2) To familiarize new students with the unique educational opportunities CHID has to offer. (3) To ensure that new students understand the CHID requirements for graduation. (4) To help new students to approach their CHID degree strategically.
SLN 2623 C 2 to be arranged
THE DIALOGUE PROJECT The DIALOGUE project is a group of students and faculty at the University of Washington committed to Developing International Alliances with local organizations for global understanding. One of the projects goals for this the corning year is to create a sustainable network of students, community leaders and organizations to facilitate dialogue. To this end this focus group will be dedicated to doing the ground work necessary for creating a structure for the implementing of International Clubs and Exchange programs in Seattle High Schools. We will do this by primarily studying the structure already in place for Roosevelt High School's Hands for a Bridge project as well as other types of International Education efforts taking place in the city. The emphasis will be on a sustained Local-Global community comprised of University of Washington students, Seattle High Schools and a number of High Schools around the world.
SLN 2624 D to be arranged
VIDEO CONFERENCING PROJECT
The Videoconferencing Project, a student driven initiative, has transitioned into a 2-credit course to encourage and involve students with diverse backgrounds to participate in the project's development. Students will concentrate on the technical and ideological implementation and evolution of videoconferencing at the University of Washington. The main purpose of this focus group is to encourage students to maintain the student driven mission through creative thought about the use of such technology in global education outside of the classroom. This will include discussing, creating and implementing ideas surrounding the use of the equipment, coming up with innovative ways to publicize the equipments existence and making the equipment more accessible to students at the University of Washington.
SLN 2626 F 2 to be arranged
ANARCHY This class will be based on reading and discussing the topic of anarchy. We will look at the different ideologies within anarchy, different anarchist thinkers throughout history and current examples of anarchy in the world. As a student run group the material for the class will obviously be provided by the students and guided by their interests.
SLN 2627 G to be arranged ROBERTS,G
PUBLIC RHETORIC AND PERMANENT WAR
This focus group will be offered in conjunction with a year long lecture series of the same name, and will consist of readings that frame the broader theoretical and historical context of the lecture series. As a year long focus group, the sets of readings for each quarter will be structured around a particular theme: Empire and Permanent War (fall); Permanent War and Mass-Incarceration (winter); and Public Rhetorics and Permanent War (spring). However, as a group we intend to creatively intertwine these themes in our discussions and readings during each quarter. The objective of the lecture series and focus group is to generate a dialogue on the production and the role of public culture and rhetoric during what increasingly appears to be a state of globalized permanent war. How does public rhetoric become a site through which productive political contest emerges and becomes effective? We will seek to have broader transformative discussions on what it means to perform critical cultural work which engages with pressing political questions, debates and concerns. Key readings for the course will include texts from Michel Foucault, Loic Wacquant, Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, W.E.B. Du Bois, Arundhati Roy, Saul Williams, Suheir Hammad, Michael Denning, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
SLN 2034 H W 330-520
QUEER PERFORMANCE POETRY
In this focus group we shall explore the world of performance poetry in order to discover a comfortable medium for the presence of queer voices. We will dive into the work of many contemporary poets, both local and international. Students will utilize the 'workshop' setting to develop their work from the page to the stage. At the end of the quarter, students will showcase their pieces at a final event held here on campus.
CHID 496I, Fridays 9am-11am EMBODIED PRESCENCE Facilitator: steven oscherwitz Fridays 9-11
Art/Techno science Mediated through Instrumental Consciousness This exploratory discussion group is designed for upcoming techno science researchers who are developing their own unique projects in the current art/techno science field.
Through open and spontaneous discussion, we will examine each speaker’s interests by associating to key treatises and texts from the history of science and philosophy while constantly contrasting these more traditional themes and methodologies with the current postmodern and contemporary theater of ideas in current media practice.
Through historical and philosophical interpretation, we hope to enrich and strengthen our own independent research understandings with experimental science and the art/science practice interface. While examining some past monolithic notions of Theoretical (analytic knowledge) and Empirical (manipulative Knowledge) we will hopefully begin to build the case that recent media studies and interactive /collaborative research between artists and scientists transforms and redefines these earlier meanings and practices of art and science.
I will present images from Radiochemistry, Confocal Microscopy, Two-Photon Microscopy, and cutting edge art/science conferences research such as Defocusing Digital Particle Image Velocimetry, Magneto hydrodynamic Waves and then my own Art/Techno science Cancer Research. Thus through examining this sophisticated mediated instrumental imagery we hope to exemplify how this 21st century high powered instrumental knowledge and its images provide a powerful knowledge (Deleuze, Delanda) and experiential base for compounding phenomenological research (Husserl, Ponty, Heidegger, Ihde) with current Techno/science research. Our aim is not just meshing a hodgepodge of ideas of the biophysical, bicultural, and biodigital, but instead, realizing we are actually re-experiencing the physical world through our own empowerment of exploring our own bodies with technologies that are remaking our experience of self while changing our relationship to the material world.
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