TY - CHAP
T1 - Chemistry of Literature, Literature of Chemistry
T2 - Developing and Promoting a Course for the Humanities and Natural Sciences
AU - Sykes, Dan
AU - Morrisson, Mark S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - An inter-domain chemistry and literature course at Penn State is a pedagogically innovative course co-taught by Chemistry and English faculty. The course teaches both the basic concepts of chemistry and their cultural elaboration in literature across the modern period. Students discuss how texts such as Frankenstein, The Island of Dr. Moreau, WWI poetry, and White Noise, among others, mirror the cultural perceptions of science during their respective time periods and provides students with a nuanced understanding of how literature and science inform each other and negotiate cultural, religious, and political tensions. A principal aim of the course is to facilitate mutual informed dialog concerning science and society between students from a diverse set of majors.
AB - An inter-domain chemistry and literature course at Penn State is a pedagogically innovative course co-taught by Chemistry and English faculty. The course teaches both the basic concepts of chemistry and their cultural elaboration in literature across the modern period. Students discuss how texts such as Frankenstein, The Island of Dr. Moreau, WWI poetry, and White Noise, among others, mirror the cultural perceptions of science during their respective time periods and provides students with a nuanced understanding of how literature and science inform each other and negotiate cultural, religious, and political tensions. A principal aim of the course is to facilitate mutual informed dialog concerning science and society between students from a diverse set of majors.
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U2 - 10.1021/bk-2017-1266.ch002
DO - 10.1021/bk-2017-1266.ch002
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85106907625
T3 - ACS Symposium Series
SP - 11
EP - 25
BT - ACS Symposium Series
A2 - Kloepper, Kathryn D.
A2 - Crawford, Garland L.
PB - American Chemical Society
ER -