PRTR 151The Deep Read: Special Topics

Small, discussion-based seminar held in conjunction with The Humanities Institute's community reading initiative, The Deep Read. The Deep Read aims to bring together UCSC undergraduates, faculty, and alumni to discuss and think deeply about a text and its key themes and issues. Course is a comprehensive study of The Deep Read book, the author's work, and its relevant contexts. While the textual analysis framework remains consistent every year, the topic, author, and key text changes each year.

• This year’s course will feature mycologist Merlin Sheldrake’s best-selling book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. This will be an interactive seminar that explores not only the science of fungi and fungal webs but also the role and influence of fungi in literature, philosophy, history, the arts, and beyond. As we read about the incredible reach of the often hidden worlds of fungi, we’ll explore fungal habitats in the campus redwoods, participate in fungi cooking demonstrations, explore mushroom art making, host fungal experts in our class, and attend public Deep Read events.

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