Spacetime! - 17328 - HONR 39900 - 009 |
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This course will boldly go where no course has gone before, providing students the chance to explore strange new ideas about space and time. Want to write a sequel to Interstellar or your own episode of Star Trek? Want to see how our idea of spacetime has evolved in response to religion, philosophy, and physics? Want to hear Purdue scientists talk about science fiction that matters to them? To study spacetime requires that we engage a variety of perspectives from the past and present. In that sense, HONR 399: Spacetime! is deeply historical and philosophical in its approach. The course also takes an active interest in creative processes behind scientific thought. To that end, students will explore how arts and symbolic thought have played significant roles in scientific discoveries, including Einstein’s. Students will also practice creative modes of inquiry firsthand, as course projects will be based in creative writing practices. [Note: projects will be assessed on critical and creative thinking, not artistic quality.]
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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