Faculty First Year Seminars 197SCH4 - Eccentric Ethnographies: Entre

The biopic lecture series of ethnographies, Michael Wilson shares the fascinating stories reflecting the human condition of people such as steel tycoon Charles M. Schwab and tomboy-turned-pilot Amelia Earhart. While becoming familiar with little known facts and fandango, students will learn about semiotics, pragmatism, and the phenomenology contributing to the fabric and lore of industries, of politics, and of untold agendas. The lecture series will include: music, videos, quotations, demonstrations, and hands-on activities during each talk. Example bio features include:
1. Entrepreneur Charles M. Schwab: Not the Investor, the Rogue and Rake.
2. Engineer Amelia Earhart Body: Slamming Fame!
3. Entrepreneur Cassius Clay Becomes Muhammad Ali
4. Eccentric Ayn Rand: Hokum, Hubris, or Hirsute Truth?
5. Hemingway and his hyphen-use ? controlling tempo and time.
6. The fate of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos; today and tomorrow?
7. Michael Faraday?s ?Christmas Lectures? / middle finger to elitism.
8. John Dewey on the inevitable intertwining of culture and nature

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