Human Scale: Contemporary American Literature

Three credits · Undergraduate

Human scale is the practice of measuring and designing things to match the physical and cognitive characteristics of humans. But what happens when the world falls out of scale? When cities become too large to be knowable? When the internet makes information seem infinite? When the size of multinational corporations no longer resembles persons? We will read detective and sci- fi novels and watch films on architecture and design to understand post-1960’s changes in scale. Prerequisite: 9 credits ENGL. Three credits.