A murdered garden gnome. Courtesy of Ilya Boyandin on Flickr. License: CC BY-NC.
Instructor(s)
Peter Weise
MIT Course Number
21G.412
As Taught In
Fall 2014
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course provides the opportunity to discuss, orally and in writing, cultural, ethical, and social issues on a stylistically sophisticated level. It explores representative and influential works from the nineteenth century to the present, through literary texts (prose, drama, poetry), radio plays, art, film, and architecture, as well as investigates topics such as the human and the machine, science and ethics, representation of memory, and issues of good and evil. Taught in German.
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