Study Group Syllabi

Transhumanism in General

The Ethics and Policy of New Technologies
- Fall 2002, taught by Dr. Nick Bostrom (Yale,  Philosophy) Dr. Bonnie Kaplan (Yale School of Medicine)
Working Group Background Document:  A Somewhat Whiggish and Spotty Historical Background, by Bonnie Kaplan and Nick Bostrom, Yale University
Working Group Planning Document

 

Futurism

John Smart's LA Futurists Reading Group 

Jim Dator's  Politics of the Future Course  University of Hawaii

Creating Cultural Practices and Economic Structures for the Next Millenium Wendy Schultz, Oxford University

Barry Hughes' International Futures proseminar, University of Denver

Ian Roxborough's Sociology of the Future Fall 1999, SUNY Stony Brook

John McCarthy's Technological Opportunities for Humanity Stanford

Intro to Studies of the Future  Oxford

 

The Web, AI and Computing

Technological Futures: Reading and Writing Discourses of Science and Technology University of Rochester

Philosophy of Mind's and Machines

Information Revolutions and Information Operations  Georgetown

Imagining the Future: The Politics and Possibilities of Emerging Information Technologies , Ted Friedman, Duke University

Science Fiction

Literature and Science On-Line Syllabi

Tonya Browning, Mafalda Stasi (U. Texas, Austin), Cyberpunk

Science Fiction and the Future Lorna S. Dils (Yale)

J. Hughes' (Chicago OUL) Better Worlds Through Speculative Fiction: Politics of SF Course

Martin Irvine (Georgetown U.), Technoculture from Frankenstein to Cyberpunk

20th Century Speculative Fiction in VT