Born as industrial artifacts, robots, androids, and cyborgs have become representations of our fears, our hopes, and our expectations of the future. This course looks at the historical representation of human-like creations, from robots to cyborgs, and discuss media technology, techno-militarization, trans-humanism and posthumanism in the context of science-fiction cinema, literature, and new media.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites.

4

Units

Optional

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

None

Level Limit

Letters and science

College
GEs Area F Writing
BRUSUTTI A
Anna Brusutti
3.1
183 reviews
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14:00 PM - 15:50 PM
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FAMST55CY . Brusutti A 2 Years Ago

She graded literally one assignment of 6 throughout the entire quarter and her feedback was incredibly confusing and her instructions on what she wanted were never clear. I would not say that this is a hard class, but it is extremely frustrating and you will not have any idea what your grade is until the day that the overall grade is due on Gold.

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FAMST55CY . Brusutti A 2 Years Ago

8/10 class. AREA F and WRT. Two papers each worth 20%. The topics are obscure, but you're free to use Chat GPT so they're both easy. There's a group project worth 30%, and an in person written final also 30%. Neither were put in the gradebook, so grades a mystery till the end. Lectures=a movie, but she never takes attendance so basically optional.

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FAM46 . Brusutti A A Month Ago

If you are into film, you will love the professor! She's passionate, funny and definitely knows what she's talking about. She loves motivated students so just acknowledge and talk to her in office hours! Her lectures may feel disorganized, but after I paid attention a little more, I could see how all her ideas connect in the end. Very inspiring

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FAM46 . Brusutti A 2 Months Ago

Lectures didn't make any sense but it's an easy class.

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46 . Brusutti A 3 Months Ago

Nothing against this teacher, she is just REALLY boring. 3 papers, 3 quizzes, you can drop a low quiz grade. Genuinely just depends on the TA you get. The lectures are SUPER boring but it helps to go to probably 75% of them (esp towards end of quarter). Lwk the slides she uses are not good, lectures have basically zero structure, but she lwk funny

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FAMST46 . Brusutti A 3 Months Ago

Pretty easy class. Quizzes are worth 10 points with only 5 questions but they are pretty specific. Never once did the readings as they seemed useless. We only had 3 papers and they were easy. Final exam was fine, just know the terminology and STUDY. Every Friday you will watch a film. Oh and shoutout to Francis Yeboah, great TA and he's chill!

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