Category: NMCC Course Updates

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This Winter: ES 440/540

This winter term (Winter 2025), NMCC invites you to consider enrolling in Dr. Abigail Lee’s course ES 440/540: Techno-Orientalism: Asian American Sci-Fi & Futures (MW 10:00-11:20am).

Course Description:

Why are Asian Americans so often ridiculed as robots or machines, and why are the high-tech cityscapes of sci-fi films, video games, and fiction so often coded as Asian, even if there are no Asian characters living in them? The term techno-Orientalism describes cultural depictions that associate Asianness with the future in harmful and reductive ways. Our course will consider this racist history of inscribing Asianness as alien and robotic in dehumanizing ways, but we will also investigate how Asian Americans imagine our own futures. To do so, we will read, watch, and study AAPI futures through Asian American speculative fiction, comics, poetry, sci-fi films, and critical theory. Together we will ask: What areAsian American futures, and how do we live, resist, and imagine differently? Some weekly topics will include: Asian American cyberfeminisms, robots and posthumanism, Palestinian futurisms, and speculative utopias.

Please contact Dr. Abigail Jinju Lee at ajinju@uoregon.edu to discuss any questions you may have.

This Winter: ARTD 413/513

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Ashley Campbell from artist book “I am Falling into the Abyss”

This winter term (Winter 2025), NMCC invites you to consider enrolling in Dr. Colin Ives’ course ARTD 413/513: Machine Vision and Artificial Intelligence (MW 12:00-2:50pm).

Course Description:
Artists can use their unique perspectives to explore the cultural and societal implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential impacts on humanity. Through their work, they can raise awareness of the ethical considerations surrounding AI, spark critical dialogue about its use, and experiment with AI as a tool to create new forms of expression, pushing the boundaries of traditional art-making. By engaging with AI, artists contribute to a more nuanced understanding of its potential and limitations, helping to shape its role in society. This course will explore the growing field of AI through creative expression, focusing on Machine Vision and AI-driven image and video generation. We will engage with and examine the contradictions, challenges, and possibilities that AI presents to contemporary practitioners.

Please note that students are required to complete ARTD 370, 378, 416, or equivalent work as a prerequisite to enrolling. Contact Dr. Ives at ives@uoregon.edu to discuss any questions you may have.

NMCC Spring 2024 Course Listings

now live! spring 2024 course listingsBelow is the NMCC’s pre-approved course list for the spring 2024 term:

 

If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.

NMCC Winter 2024 Course Listing

Below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the winter 2024 term:

If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.

NMCC Winter 2022 Course Listing

Initial Registration for Winter Term 2022 runs November 15th through the 24th; below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the term.

The NMCC Common Seminar will be offered only once this year, in Winter. Note that this course is not reserved for NMCC students only. If you’re taking it next term, you should enroll as soon as possible to guarantee your place.

If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.