Course Description
This course engages some of the latest research on the material effects of ethical, political, scientific, environmental and social practices. For our purposes, materiality is defined as the notion that the physical properties of a cultural artifact have consequences for how the object is used. The course presents students with a new way of considering materiality via understandings about the human body, the natural world and the material world. It offers a material-discursive approach where students will have an opportunity to explore how nature and the body collide.