Lee M. Silver: Challenging Nature

Week	day	Lecture Topic	Precept Readings	Film	Paper
1	M	Science, Faith, Religion		no film
	W	What is life?
2	M	What is human?	Challenging Nature: 1-6	Contact
	W	Natural Selection
3	M	Sexual Selection	Dawkins: River Out of Eden	Frankenstein
	W	War of the Sexes			Life
4	M	Reproduction	Ridley: Red Queen 6-10	Stepford Wives
	W	Biological Children
5	M	Counting People	Dick: Electric Sheep & Chall. Nat. 9	Blade Runner
	W	Abortion #1
6	M	Abortion #2	Course review for midterm	no film
	W	MIDTERM
7	M	Embryonic stem cells	Robert George & Chall. Nat. 7-8	no film
	W	Reproductive technology			Sex
8	M	Reproductive politics	Huxley: Brave New World	Brave New World
	W	Vending gametes/wombs
9	M	Future reproduction	Leon Kass & Eden: 8-10 online	The 6th Day
	W	Cloning
10	M	Repro-ethics/genetic eng.	Challenging Nature 10-11 & 15-17	Jurassic Park
	W	Genetic Engineering			Babies
11	M	Human Genetics	Chall. Nat. 18-20 & Eden to Hell	GATTACA
	W	Personal Enhancement
12	M	Reprogenetics	Vonnegut: Galapagos & Epilogue	no film
	W	Future of Humankind
		READING PERIOD			Year 3000

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