Culture, Art, and Technology
OFFICE: Sixth College Administration Building
http://sixth.ucsd.edu/
Program Director
Hillel Schwartz, Ph.D.
The theme of Sixth College was prompted by the rich intellectual challenges
at the intersection of technology and the arts as historically imbedded
within diverse cultures. The academic plan develops the college theme
through a curriculum that prepares students for a future that demands
an aptitude for thinking analytically and moving fluently between worlds
of theory and practice; the ability to adapt to rapid change; skill
at teamwork; competence and enthusiasm in searching out, assessing,
and integrating text, image, and sound; a critical understanding of
media and the forms in which new information may be presented or underrepresented;
proficiency at communicating across disciplinary boundaries; and, throughout,
probity and integrity. To achieve these goals, Sixth College is creating
a learning environment inside and beyond the classroom that emphasizes
collaborative learning, pattern recognition, close reasoning, and creative
approaches to well-defined problems through consistent exposure to methods
and models from diverse fields, including the expressive and kinetic
arts. Sixth College will provide the tools and momentum necessary for
lifelong learning in the twenty-first century: information literacy,
familiarity with digital media, the habit of seeking out and learning
from those at the forefront of their fields, and the equally valuable
habit of pausing to reflect upon the wider ethical and cultural implications
of new theories or discoveries.
On campus and off, students will be linked in many waysby social
and local engagement, by cultural and intellectual projectsso
that Sixth College becomes an identifiable, sustaining community that
is always reaching out to others. More than an ethical obligation to
service, the engagement with the outlying community is integral to the
mission of the college to engage our students in the process of learning
to listen across cultures.
Courses
Lower-Division
CAT 1. Culture, Art, and Technology 1 (4)
A global historical overview of principles and patterns of human development,
with emphasis on technology and the arts. Traces causes and consequences
of cultural variation. Explores interactions of regional environments
(geographic, climatic, biological) with social and cultural forces.
Prerequisites: Sixth College students only; may be taken concurrently
with SDCC 1.
CAT 2. Culture, Art, and Technology 2 (6) Fundamental
shifts in one area of endeavor can have a profound impact on whole cultures.
Examines select events, technologies, and works of art that revolutionized
ways of inhabiting the world. Intensive instruction in university-level
writing; featured sections on information literacy. Prerequisites:
completion of Subject A requirement; Sixth College students only.
CAT 3. Culture, Art, and Technology 3 (6) Students
engage with various interdisciplinary modes of apprehending the near
future. Working in teams on community projects, they are challenged
to listen and communicate across cultures and develop cogent technological
and artistic responses to local problems. Writing and information literacy
instruction. Prerequisites: completion of Subject A requirement;
Sixth College students only.
CAT 4. Culture, Art, and Technology 4 (2) Students
will work in project teams to explore the prudent and appropriate use
of software applications to gather, process, shape, and communicate
information. Topics may include critical examinations of computer-based
technology, impact on privacy, ethical problems in computing, etc. Prerequisites:
Sixth College students only; lab attendance is not required.
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