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Syllabus

1. Two Cultures: Science and Modernism (9/4/01)

2. What is Modernism?: Definitions & Terms (9/6/01)

3. What is Motion? Cosmology Case Study (9/11/01)

4. Math and Motion: Newton's Laws (9/13/01)

5. Towards Modernism: 19th C. Art (9/18/01)

6. Towards Modernism: Impressionism (9/20/01)

7. Discretization of the Continuum: Jim Lipton visiting

8. What is Light and Color? Ishita Mukerji visiting

9. Cezanne: What is Different? (10/2/01)

10. What is Energy? (10/05/01)

11. Talkin' about an Evolution (10/9/01)

12. Modernist Poetry Slam (10/11/01)

13. Seurat : Painting with Light (10/18/01)

            PowerPoint Presentation

14. Moulin Rouge (10/19/01)

15. Apres La Jatte: Fauvism, Futurism, etc (10/21/01)

16.Genes and Genomics: Mendel, de Vries, Morgan (10/25/01)

17. Music and Modernism: Neely Bruce visiting (10/27/01)

18. Russell and Husserl: Jim Lipton visiting (10/30/01)

19. Yo! Picasso!! (11/06/01)

            PowerPoint Presentation

20. Absinthe and Einstein (11/8/01)

21. Freud, etc: Dr. Steve Bank visiting (11/13/01)

22. Mystery of Picasso - Video (11/15/01)

23. Relativity Theory: Special and General (11/20/01)

24. Cubism and Kandinsky: Pat Rosoff visiting (11/27/01)

            PowerPoint Presentation

            Pat Rosoff's Own Work

25. Discovery of Quantum Mechanics (11/29/01)

26. Modern Dance and Modernism: Katja Kalso visiting (12/4/01)

27. Big Reads: Joyce and Proust (12/6/01)

            PowerPoint Presentation

28. Special Guest: William Everdell, author of The First Moderns (12/17/01)