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Integrating Life: Making Sense beyond Disciplinary Boundaries
Cursusdoel
After completing this course students are able to
- critically reflect on the nature of interdisciplinarity in terms of its concept, its vocabularies, its processes, and in terms of its practice;
- understand what it takes to do interdisciplinary work by having performed complex case studies regarding life;
- use their communicative and organizational skills to collaborate in interdisciplinary contexts;
- navigate interdisciplinary spaces by having trained several qualities of knowing.
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Vakinhoudelijk
"'Life' remains what is absent par excellence from all biological science" - Jean-Luc Marion.
In this capstone course you will take yourself on a journey by focusing on the single, complex and integrational topic of life. From Schrödinger's 1944 What is Life? to Nobel-Prize winning Paul Nurse's 2021 book of the same title, scholars from a broad variety of disciplines have attempted to address life as the focus of our concern with ourselves, each other, and the planet.
But what is this thing called life? How does our understanding of this phenomenon affect what we care about and live for?
In the course, you will discover what your discipline(s) tells you about life, and how you can integrate this with the views of other disciplines, and expand or transform your knowledge. You will learn how integration is a matter of structured, stepwise interaction with divergent disciplinary and worldly viewpoints. Starting out by studying the ways in which life is defined in each of our disciplines, we will first ask what it means to be grounded in a discipline. Next, we will ask what the stories of other disciplines mean to us, and how we can open up perspectives for interdisciplinary dialogue. Finally, we will study ways in which we can create common ground and aim for integration of the various perspectives on the question “what is life?”.
Case studies are for example: the historical discovery of DNA and its aftermath, a bio-artist's inquiry into human life/plant life interaction, the (auto-)biography of polymaths and other interdisciplinary scholars, or the debate on the rights of the oceans. As we will discuss, such cases overflow disciplinary perspectives and boundaries, and they allow us thereby to create more integrated accounts of life as a complex phenomenon.
Format
This course is designed as an interactive course, with students and teachers working together towards joint insights and results. The first part of the course focuses on 'solo' interdisciplinarity, the second part explores collaborative or 'team' interdisciplinarity. Instructor Sander van Maas was trained in philosophy, musicology, and medical biology. The course features guest lectures from across the (social) sciences and humanities, and embodied practices of learning.
In this capstone course you will take yourself on a journey by focusing on the single, complex and integrational topic of life. From Schrödinger's 1944 What is Life? to Nobel-Prize winning Paul Nurse's 2021 book of the same title, scholars from a broad variety of disciplines have attempted to address life as the focus of our concern with ourselves, each other, and the planet.
But what is this thing called life? How does our understanding of this phenomenon affect what we care about and live for?
In the course, you will discover what your discipline(s) tells you about life, and how you can integrate this with the views of other disciplines, and expand or transform your knowledge. You will learn how integration is a matter of structured, stepwise interaction with divergent disciplinary and worldly viewpoints. Starting out by studying the ways in which life is defined in each of our disciplines, we will first ask what it means to be grounded in a discipline. Next, we will ask what the stories of other disciplines mean to us, and how we can open up perspectives for interdisciplinary dialogue. Finally, we will study ways in which we can create common ground and aim for integration of the various perspectives on the question “what is life?”.
Case studies are for example: the historical discovery of DNA and its aftermath, a bio-artist's inquiry into human life/plant life interaction, the (auto-)biography of polymaths and other interdisciplinary scholars, or the debate on the rights of the oceans. As we will discuss, such cases overflow disciplinary perspectives and boundaries, and they allow us thereby to create more integrated accounts of life as a complex phenomenon.
Format
This course is designed as an interactive course, with students and teachers working together towards joint insights and results. The first part of the course focuses on 'solo' interdisciplinarity, the second part explores collaborative or 'team' interdisciplinarity. Instructor Sander van Maas was trained in philosophy, musicology, and medical biology. The course features guest lectures from across the (social) sciences and humanities, and embodied practices of learning.
Werkvormen
UCU INT 3 course
Toetsing
Paper
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
Assignments (Weeks 1-7)
Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5
Group project (poster and reflection)
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
*midterm FEEDBACK*
Niet verplicht
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Je moet minimaal 90 punten van het bachelor programma hebben behaald
Voorkennis
Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Academisch schrijven
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Interdisciplinariteit
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Kritisch lezen
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Leren In Community’s
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Onderzoeksvaardigheden
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Presenteren
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Samenwerken
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
| Materiaal | Omschrijving |
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| READER | Readings and other material will be made available digitally. |
Aanbevolen materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend
Opmerkingen
Counts toward HUM, SCI, or SSC major. Capstone
Coördinator
| prof. dr. S.A.F. van Maas | S.A.F.vanMaas@uu.nl |
Docenten
| prof. dr. S.A.F. van Maas | S.A.F.vanMaas@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.
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