Overall in this course i learned how closely art and science are connected. People never usually consider this true, but after this course i can now see. What people usually connect is the coralation between science and technology, but now i can connect the element of art into it also. I learned that every time a new concept in science is discovered that an artist will create a new innovative art form. For example today i saw a video that showed how the electromagnetic waves expand. At first i thought that this was a scientist who was talking because it used many scientific laws and talked in a very knowledgeable tone. Then after i finished the video i learned that it was an artist that created the video and i was surprised because they knew so much about science. This is just one example of how the barriers of art and science are being weakened throughout society today.
One thing that i would like to see improved is that there was too many lectures in a row the first week. During the first week it was basically six full hours of lectures. I think that there should be some hands on labs to mix up the lectures and the physical activities that way people dont get too overloaded with lectures. I think that this was one reason that people got so tired that they were falling asleep; people were too overloaded with lectures and just dozed off because they have been sitting in their seats for a long time. Overall i really enjoyed this course and hope for the best next year!
www.princeton.edu/~artofsci/2009
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_field
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111499