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First Year Experience
Starbuck Center 201A
Skidmore College
815 N. Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
PROGRAM DIRECTOR:
Marla Melito
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Allie Taylor
Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Water: Society, Science and the Arts
Instructor(s): Judy Halstead, Chemistry
Water is essential for life. It connects us to one another, to other forms of life, and to our entire planet. We drink it, grow food with it, swim in it, worship it, use it for commercial purposes, generate energy with it, waste it, pollute it, compete for it and go to war over it. In this course, we will take an introductory look at the role of water in human society and some of the ways our relationship with water is reflected in media and art, though such works as Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People and the films Chinatown, A Civil Action, and Erin Brockovich.
Course Description
Water: Society, Science and the Arts
Instructor(s): Judy Halstead, Chemistry
Water is essential for life. It connects us to one another, to other forms of life, and to our entire planet. We drink it, grow food with it, swim in it, worship it, use it for commercial purposes, generate energy with it, waste it, pollute it, compete for it and go to war over it. In this course, we will take an introductory look at the role of water in human society and some of the ways our relationship with water is reflected in media and art, though such works as Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People and the films Chinatown, A Civil Action, and Erin Brockovich.
