Survival of the Fittest Course 2015-16
Beginning in the 2015-16 school year, I will be teaching a new course called Survival of the Fittest. Through this humanities-based course, our students will be studying the concept of survival as it pertains to biology, social situations, and apocalyptic scenarios. They will be studying Darwin, dystopias, satire, technology, and death (bodily, physical, concept) itself. Though we will be studying literature, I will also incorporate a great deal of nonfiction, poetry, and media. We will become a collaborative team which will ultimately plan for survival of any situation. At the heart of this course we will be attempting to explain or answer what it means to be human in a world that has lost its humanity.