Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WEIRD SCIENCE: BLOOD, BODY SNATCHING, & FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES & LITERATURE

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course texts will begin by exploring the ethics of early modern medical practices, including body snatching of the purposes of human dissection and Frankenstien-esque attempts at reviving corpses, and will move forward into questions about contemporary medical ethics and the ethical dangers imagined for our future by dystopic writers.