Course Information - FRS 127
This course explores the crossover collaborative of bioengineering and art, presenting the notion of bioengineering as an artistic practice. A creative portrayal has the potential to humanize this highly technical field. Advancements in the field of biotechnology are examined as potential tools to not only improve health care, but also as an art medium. The course material exposes students to organisms manipulated in an imaginative context and consider how these artistic ventures may affect public perception of emerging biomedical technologies.
Instructor: Penelope Georges
Distribution: SEN
Penelope Georges, Instructor
It has been a joy to design this freshman seminar and even more enjoyable to implement. The seminar is filled with an eager and engaged group of first year students that, through artistic pieces, are learning about current biotechnologies from CRISPR to tissue engineering to stem cell therapeutics. Students discuss the impact and concerns that are depicted in the art works and have been creating artistic pieces in the StudioLab to ask their own provocative questions. I am delighted to guide this talented and curious group through a survey of bioengineering topics and feel fortunate to have been supported by the CST to bring this course to fruition.
