Culture, Art, and Technology
OFFICE: Multi-Purpose Building, second floor
http://sixth.ucsd.edu/
Program Director
Linda Strauss, 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. Not offered 2004–2005.
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