Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Course Master:
Term:
Fall 2024
Discipline:
PO (Politics)
Credits:
4 credits
Type:
CCI
Level:
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?:
No
Exam Date:
Friday, December 13, 2024 - 12:30
Pre-requisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
Professor(s)
Notes
Space exploration holds political and strategic significance. Military projects related to space travel held a crucial role in the balance of power towards the end of the Cold War. Yet the constant increase in the cost of space technology ultimately made it necessary to pool global resources and postpone confrontation. An entire economy has emerged around space travel, situated in changing cultural attitudes. Discover how this context provides opportunities to divert power away from the military industrial complex and towards efforts leading to peace.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. (FB LO1)
- Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. (FB LO2)
- Students will know the basic stages of the history of Outer Space research and how to contextualize them in consideration of their political, historic, and cultural environment.
- Students will know the individuals, technologies (Tsiolkovsky, jet propulsion, Werner von Braun, V1, V2, Vostok and Saturn rockets, EVA, astronauts of most important space missions such as Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, female astronauts, and technicians etc.).
- Students will be able to understand interdisciplinarity by identifying the links between apparently unconnected issues and questions common to Outer Space research and gender, race, society, communication, creativity, the arts and imagination.
- Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures and the histories of local societies, and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
- Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (eg visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions. (CCI LO2)
- Students will think critically about cultural and social difference. Students will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities relating to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion or class. (CCI LO3)
Syllabus
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Schedule
Start Date:
Monday, September 2, 2024
End Date:
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |
Friday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-505 |