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Apr 19, 2024
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Goucher College 2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEC 253 - The Optimist’s Telescope: Futuring and Strategies of Imagination (4 Cr.) (GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area) When addressing social problems from climate change to homelessness, racial disparities to the impact of COVID-19, our solutions are often limited by what we can’t imagine; we try to paint pictures of what could be using only the palette of what already-is. This class is a laboratory of imagination, looking at the strategies of imagination that introduce futuristic and sometimes seemingly-impossible ideas, practicing mapping, learning from, and rearranging existing information into the possible and the necessary. Utilizing speculative thinking and borrowing from artistic strategies, studying social science and creative text, students will choose examples of problems from real life to explore and venture past what’s considered “unthinkable,” mapping out possible solutions and new ways of seeing. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Hopper.
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