Content

Week 1 (Aug. 27 – 29)

Week 1

• Introduction
  • General Introduction
  • The website of the course, the syllabus
  • Inspiration and Core Concepts, Definition
• The Automobile in Movies: Scenes from Herbie the Love Bug (1968)
• Assignments (due Friday, September 6)
  • Reading: Maurie Cohen, “The future of automobile society”
  • Written reflection: “Have Cars Lost Their magic?”
    • Alternative written assignment: “The Magic of Cars in On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down (2021)”
  • Open the Week 1 page link above for lecture notes and additional details about the assignments.

Week 2 (Sep. 3 – 5)

Week 2

• Transportation, Energy Sources, Technologies
• Brief History of the Automobile
• The Automobile in Movies: Scenes from Herbie the Love Bug (1968)
• Assignments (due Sep. 13)
  • Readings: Charles Loomis, Araminta and the Automobile, etc.
  • Reflection: “Old cars, new cars: how do they feel?”
    • Alternative written assignment: “An Automotive Love Story”

Week 3 (Sep. 10 – 12)

Week 3

• Charles Loomis: Captive to the New Technology
  • The three short stories of Araminta and the Automobile
• The Automobile in Early Children’s Books
  • Nicolas Stanislas-Auguste Vimar, L’Automobile Vimar (1902)
• The Automobile in Movies: Bumblebee (2018)