Course Catalog - 2019-2020

     

HURC 501 - QUANTA, PSYCHE, CELL

Long Title: MELLON GRADUATE SEMINAR I
Department: Humanities Research Center
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: Focusing on epistemologies of time and the problem of perceiving and capturing presence, the seminar will bring together theories and conceptions about time, temporalities, and temporal perception offered by quantum theories, psychoanalysis, and biology, engaging as well the myriad aspects of the multi-layered sensory, epistemological, psychological, and phenomenological registers through which humans perceive, remember, represent, and calculate time. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.
Course URL: http://hrc.rice.edu/aw-mellon/node/56