Culture, Art, and Technology
OFFICE: Pepper Canyon Hall, Second Floor
http://sixth.ucsd.edu/
Program Director
Linda Strauss, Ph.D.
Courses
The Sixth College core sequence in Culture, Art, and Technology
offers an opportunity for students to explore the ways in which
human beings have come to express and shape themselves and their
world through their own creations. The core sequence takes an interdisciplinary,
integrated approach to the college theme, with students examining
a series of problems and issues from multiple perspectives. These
issues center on how culture, art, and technology have developed
over time in different societies, how they interact with each other,
how human beings have used them to address challenges and how their
uses have generated fresh challenges by reshaping peoples’ relationships
to each other and to their environment. The sequence spans the
whole range of human experience, from the prehistoric through the
present, ending with a consideration of future possibilities.
The
college writing program is imbedded in the core sequence, with
writing-intensive quarters in CAT 2 and CAT 3. Students learn
to use writing to probe and experiment with new ideas as well as
to
express themselves clearly and effectively to others in their
own voices. The core sequence provides students with instruction
and
multiple opportunities for practice so they may develop a repertoire
of strategies and tools for communication.
Students in CAT learn
through a combination of lectures, discussions, questions, readings,
guest speakers, hands-on activities, writing
assignments, and multimedia projects. Sixth College offers
a learning environment that extends beyond the classroom and emphasizes
teamwork,
critical thinking, close reading, pattern recognition, and
creative
approaches to problems, drawing on models and methods from
a variety of fields.
The core sequence prepares Sixth College students
to become self-motivated, lifelong learners. They will have broadened
and deepened their
visions of themselves and the world and will have developed
an appreciation of the diversity and powers both of ideas
and of
the social body. Through inquiry into problems and issues
of Culture,
Art, and Technology, our students will know how to ask and
how to go about answering good questions, recognizing that
good questions
lead not just to answers but to more penetrating, more fruitful
questions and approaches to problems, which can then lead
in many cases to more effective solutions.
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