IHUM 57 - The Human and the Machine ::
This course explores the shifting boundary lines between the mechanical and the human by considering how human individuals connect and interact with machines, how they may even be conceived, designed, and manipulated as machines. The course examines these ideas from a variety of directions ranging from paradigms of bio- and social engineering to ethical issues concerning biotechnology and creationist arguments for "intelligent design" that reveal the work of God. (Lowood, Schnapp, Shanks)

ArtHist283A - Shanghai/Paris: Urban Imaginaries, 1880-1940 ::
Tracing the development of the urban imaginary in two distant cities over time. While attending closely to material artifacts, we will investigate how the modern experience in these respective cities is constituted by mediations, representations, conceptions, theorizations, fantasies, and repressions. (Larkin, Vinograd)

HUM 198J (seminar) - Digital Humanities: Literature and Technology ::
In what ways do electronic texts, literary data and computers offer us unique ways of reading, analyzing, and understanding literature? This course addresses this question by exploring the possibilities opened by electronic texts, digital corpora, and literary databases and by investigating how scientific methods, including quantitative methods, statistical analysis, and electronic coding can assist us in the study of literature. Throughout the course we will consider the overwhelming intellectual and philosophical problems associated with employing an objective methodology within a traditionally subjective discipline. Students last year encoded a text for the Irish-American West project as part of their course work. (Jockers)

Irish-American Literature (seminar) ::
This seminar will explore the diverse nature of Irish-American literature including works of pre-famine, famine, and post-famine immigrants. The course will consider questions of ethnic and cultural identity and include reading and discussion of mainstream writers of Irish ancestry as well as lesser-known Irish-American authors. Readings are taken from works in the Irish-American West project collection, and student research contributes to the online database component of that project. (Jockers)

French/Italian/Comp Lit 319 - Revolutionary Tides ::
This research seminar examines the importance of the collectivity in the era of popular sovereighty, concentrating on the role of the "revolutionary" crowd in the modern cultural imagination. Course materials include texts by 19th and 20th century crowd theorists, as well as artworks, literature, and films dealing with crowds from the French Revolution to contemporary "flash mobs." The course is linked to an exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Students will be directly involved in researching and writing labels for the exhibit and in helping to design installations and programming, getting hands-on experience in the production of a major museum exhibition. (See the Crowds project description here.) (Schnapp, 3-5 units)

German 61 (at UCLA) - Hypermedia Berlin ::
This cultural studies course includes people, places, and history in a context of linked and annotated digital maps, giving students a topographical perspective on the city. The nine maps, dating from 1811 to 2003, function as layers, with each layer providing a focus on key moments, figures, structures, people and events that are significant to the ongoing process of construction, destruction and reconstruction of Berlin. The class is completely web-based. Students use the maps and syllabus to explore the object of the lesson, tracking down readings, images, and other information. (See the Berlin: Temporal Topographies project description here.) (Presner)

HUM 181 - Introduction to Strategic Foresight ::
The course will explore how the future can be imagined and communicated. Upon completion, students will have a clearer grasp of strategic foresight methods, their advantages and disadvantages, and how to apply them in research and business. (Cockayne, 3 units)

HUM 182 - Case Studies in Strategic Foresight ::
This course will present ten case studies, both successes and failures, of individuals and organizations attempting to develop "knowledge of the future." The course will critique the strategic foresight models and underlying methodologies in each case, asking the key question, "How effective was the foresight in helping to envision the future?" Upon completion of this course, students will understand the strengths and weaknesses of strategic foresight and how to embed the practice in organizations. (Cockayne, 3 units)

HUM 183 - Strategic Foresight and Innovation ::
The class will explore plausible futures by hearing from field experts, discussing seminal papers, and building multiple scenarios. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand, explore, and prepare for the impending changes in emerging technologies and how to embed the practice in organizations. (Cockayne, 3 units)

STS 145/HPS 163 - History of Computer Game Design: Technology, Culture, Business ::
This course, a spinoff from SHL project How They Got Game, provides a historical and critical approach to the evolution of computer and video game design from its beginnings to the present. It brings together cultural, business, and technical perspectives. Students should come away from the course with an understanding of the history of this medium, as well as insights into design, production, marketing, and socio-cultural impacts of interactive entertainment and communication. (Lowood, 4 units)

HUMNTIES 198S - Digital Humanities ::
A core component of the Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Program, this course is a broad introduction to key issues in the contemporary Humanities, in the light of digital culture. (Shanks, 4-5 units)

STS 112 - Science, Technology and Culture: The Design of Ten Artifacts ::
The course examines the connectiobns among science, technology, society, and culture by looking at a range of made objects, from a palaeolithic hand axe to the BMW Mini. Interdisciplinary perspectives include archaelology, cultural anthrpology, science, history and sociology of technology, congnitive science, and evolutionaly psychology. (Shanks, 4-5 units)

CompLit 253 - Marinetti and Futurism ::
(Schnapp)

CompLit 355E - R. Buckminster Fuller, Polymath ::
(Schnapp)

Teaching the Unteachable: Teaching and Representing the Holocaust ::
In this seminar we will consider how we teach something often considered unteachable. How does catastrophe become curriculum and for what purpose? What forms of representation—mémoire, testimony, literature, film, and even simulation—are used in classrooms, and what do students actually learn from these encounters? Readings will include selections from a broad range in the social science and humanities. (Wineburg)