Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2013

     

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FWIS 103 001 (CRN: 18783)

IN THE MATRIX

Long Title: IN THE MATRIX: ON HUMAN BONDAGE AND LIBERATION
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Instructor: Wood, Philip R.
Meeting: 1:00PM - 3:50PM M (26-AUG-2013 - 6-DEC-2013) 
Part of Term: First Year Writing
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
 
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 14
Enrollment data as of: 12-MAY-2024 4:13PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: Final Exam Unknown
 
Description: Using the film "The Matrix" as the point of reference, this course presents celebrated explorations of servitude and emancipation - from religious mysticism to Marxism and artistic modernism. Texts by Lao Tzu, Farid ud-Din Attar, Plato, Freud, Marx, Baudelaire, J.S. Mill, Proust, de Beauvior, Malcolm X, Marcuse, Baudrillard.
 
Course URL: http://pwc.rice.edu/