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Strange courses spice up
spring-term class schedule
Students can explore cyborg
babies and Asian rock art
at the University this spring
By Chelsea Duncan
News Reporter
The University is offering an array
of courses during spring term that al
low curious students to dabble in un
usual and unexpected topics.
Among these classes is a women's
and gender studies class called Tech
no-Sex and Cyborg Babies, which
explores the integration of technol
ogy into processes such as pregnan
cy and birth.
Alexandra Stotts, women's and gen
der studies visiting assistant professor,
will teach the class next term. She said
the class is important for analyzing
human interaction with technology,
adding that it explores the advantages
and disadvantages of advancing tech
nology in reproductive medicine.
"This course gives students an op
portunity to think about their own
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Associate Professor Malcolm Wilson teaches his Introduction to Greek class on Friday
morning. Wilson will also teach the class during spring term.
values and priorities around techno
science," she said. "Just how cyborg
do we want to be?"
Other course topics focus more on
the arts and less on the sciences. In Art
History 407, students learn about
rock art in Northern Asia.
"There's an enormous amount of
rock art from that region," Professor
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer said. "The
quality is just beautiful."
Jacobson-Tepfer, who is the first to
teach the class at the University, said
students study rock art that dates as
far back as the Paleolithic period.
She said she bases the class on her
own field work in countries with
this form of art.
The University also provides students
with the chance to learn dead languages,
such as Latin and ancient Greek.
Associate Professor Malcolm Wil
son, who teaches an introductory
course in ancient Greek, said ancient
Greeks probably wouldn't under
stand modern day interpretations of
the language.
"It's dead so we don't know how it
sounds," he said.
He said the course gives students
the ability to ponder the original
"pristine" writings of famous an
cient Greeks, such as Homer, Plato
and Euclid.
For students who are hoping to im
prove their Japanese writing abilities,
the Japanese special topics course,
Learn Writing Through Comics, could
do the trick.
Graduate student Kyoko Sato,
who teaches the class, said students
study Japanese anime to make read
ing Japanese texts easier and to "in
crease motivation."
"I think for most students it's
helpful to have some visual input,"
she said.
Junior Ashley Wright, who is study- t
ing music, said the most unusual class
she has taken at the University was a '
music class in which students learned
how to play instruments in an Indone
sian Javanese Gamelan orchestra.
"You don't really find a lot of those
instruments in the United States," she
said. "I didn't really even hear about it
until I came here."
Sophomore Sayer Singleton, who is
studying general sciences and busi
ness, said the Evolution of Human
Sexuality anthropology course made
a strong impression on him.
"It was sex," he said. "It was exciting."
He said his most memorable expe
riences were his professor's dirty jokes
and drawings of Chimpanzees' sexu
al behaviors.
"I was a little surprised and shocked
at times," he said.
Students can check out other un
usual courses on the University's
DuckHunt Web site at http://ore
gon.uoregon.edu/~bnrserve.
Contact the higher education/
student life/student affairs reporter
at chelseaduncan@dailyemerald.com.
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