□ Why science and popular culture?
□ Images of scientists in popular culture

week 1 reading
textbook
□ Baron, American Eclipse (chapters 1-4)

related sources
□ Tim Delaney, "Pop Culture: An Overview" from Philosophy Now (2007)
□ Peter Eugster, "The Perception of Scientists" from The Science Creative Quarterly (2011)
□ Roslynn Haynes, "From Alchemy to Artificial Intelligence: Stereotypes of the Scientist in Western Literature" Public Understanding of Science, 2003 (12) 243-253

□ "Scientists Share the Most Ridiculous Stock Photos of their Jobs on Twitter" / Michele Debczak, Mental Floss (2018)

week 1 viewing

□ Mike Rugnetta, "Does Pop Culture Need to be Popular?" from the Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios | 2014 (8 min; the last 5 minutes are a discussion of a previous topic)

□ Hank Green, "The Limits of History": Crash Course History of Science (#46, 2019)

□ Jay Smooth, "History of Media Literacy, (Links to an external site.) Part 2 (Links to an external site.)" / Crash Course: Media Literacy #2 (2018) [10 min]

□ The Mad Doctor (1933) [7 min]

The Mad Doctor

week 1 assignments
1. Brief Student Intros
(this is discussion #1 in the gradebook)

2. Meme Mania Intro Page
(this is survey #1 in the gradebook)