핵심교양 강좌 <Man and Machine> 수업 사례 연구

Abstract

This thesis aims to review a core general education course “Man and Machine” taught in English. In order to understand the polemical relationship between humans and machine, we have discussed three novels and four films: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Bicentennial Man, The Island, The Matrix, and Gattaca. I focus on Huxley’s Brave New World in this paper because I think the novel deals with key issues in the discourse of man and machine. By the key issues I mean such diverse subjects as manipulation of human reproduction, magic drugs, clones, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, and utopia/dystopia. I have analyzed how those topics had been discussed in class from multiple perspectives. For example, we have tried to figure out specific meanings of the state’s slogans — community, identity, and stability. And we have found many scientific specimens in reality in which Huxley’s theories have been applied. Also we have investigated the effects of soma and its modern counterparts. Furthermore, the whole system of the state, in which Fordism and Sloanism are main pillars, has been analyzed in detail to construct the best matrix between humans and machine. Finally, I have added useful suggestions to make a best offer to interdisciplinary classes like Man and Machine.