Tutorials

Tut100-01

Vagabondage and Discipline: The Ethics and Aesthetics of American Tramping

Stephen Andrews – English

This course explores the rise in the nineteenth century of “tramping” and other forms of vagabondage. The term had positive value if one were a middle-class vacationer tramping out West or in the Adirondacks, but if one were out of work and forced by dint of circumstances to tramp about from one police jurisdiction to another, to be a “tramp” was to be reviled, feared, and, in an odd sort of way, envied. We will focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a period in which railroad development was transforming the American landscape (and periodically emptying its banks), more and more Americans were demanding and getting vacations, national parks were being reserved for the benefit of all, baseball was achieving status as America’s pastime, “separate but equal” became the law of the land, and hundreds of thousands of tramps were wandering the railways and byways of America looking for work. Against this backdrop we will explore interconnections between home, homelessness, and mobility in selected fiction from Mark Twain and Jack London; cultural criticism from William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and Robert Park; and poetry from Walt Whitman, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, and Harriet Monroe. In addition, we will read selections from various journals, sociological tracts, and national park and railroad promotional literature on the “problem” of the tramp and the value of tramping.

Tut100-02

The Places I’ve Been: Outsiders, Exiles, Tourists

Yvette Aparicio – Spanish

This tutorial explores the role and significance of place in conceptualizations of self and others. Readings, film viewings, and class discussions will focus on how outsiders, exiles and tourists experience place and invent a sense of place. Some questions we will ask and discuss throughout the semester are: What is sense of place? Is sense of place important today? How does our social position and perspective affect our sense of place? Or is sense of place out of place in a globalized world? What are displacement and placelessness? Is placelessness a threat to our well-being? Course materials include U.S. and Latin American film, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including writings by Wallace Stegner, Joan Didion, Ariel Dorfman and Lee Ann Roripaugh.

Tut100-03

HUMAN: WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT?

Vicki Bentley-Condit – Anthropology

Most of us assume that we know what it means to be “human”. Surprisingly, the question posed above is more complicated than one might think and may actually have several answers depending upon who is asked and when/where the asking occurs. In this course, we will examine different interpretations – evolutionary, historical, biological, cross-cultural, legal – of how humaness is or should be determined.   In exploring “what is human”, we will examine such issues as stem cell research, abortion, the Great Ape Project, and the Holocaust. We will read about feral children, “Tarzan of The Apes”, and Primo Levi.  By the end of the semester, we may (or may not) be able to determine where and how we draw the line between human and nonhuman.

Tut100-04

Music and Society in Paris, 1880-1930

Jennifer Williams Brown – Music

During the period 1880-1930, Paris was the center of modern and avant-garde developments in music, painting, poetry, and dance. These developments simultaneously reflected the social upheavals of the early 20th century, and shook “civilized” society to its roots. Musicians active during this period include the Francophone composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Edgard Varèse, Olivier Messiaen, and Nadia Boulanger, as well as such famous émigrés as Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, George Antheil, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, and John Cage. In this tutorial we will read contemporary concert reviews and the composers’ own writings and study the interactions between musicians, other artists, and the public at large. We will focus in  particular on the riot at the premiere of Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring (1913). The ability to read music is NOT required.

Tut100-05

EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY

Jonathan Brown – Biology

Evolution is perhaps both the most influential and the most controversial development in science in the last 200 years. The ideas Charles Darwin laid out in his landmark work, On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, have had a tumultuous history because they appear to confront culturally-embedded beliefs about the nature of human variation, as well as the origin of our species. In this tutorial, we’ll consider what Darwin actually said about evolution and humanity, and compare that to how his ideas have been used, criticized, and adapted by others over the past 140 years. In particular, we’ll critically examine the influence of evolutionary ideas on four issues of enduring social importance: race, gender, religious belief, and ethics.

Tut100-06

Humanities I: The Ancient Greek World

Joseph Cummins – Classics and Philosophy

This tutorial will be an introduction to the liberal arts through reading, comparing, discussing, and writing about several classic works which stand at the beginning of the liberal-arts tradition. More specifically, the course will be an introduction to poetry, history, and philosophy by way of some of the most famous works produced in ancient Greece. We will begin with epic poetry, reading both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Then we will turn to three examples of tragic drama: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and Euripides' Bacchants. We will also study Aristotle's analysis of epic and tragedy in his Poetics. The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, will be our example of historical writing in prose, and it will provide a contrast with epic and dramatic poetry.   Our last writer will be Plato, who illustrates philosophical questioning, reflection, and dialogue in his Defense of Socrates, Crito, and Drinking-Party. Although our texts are chosen to illustrate different types of literature, they are linked by their cultural context, by some common techniques of composition, and by many common themes, such as the fragility of human life, the basic impulses of human nature, and the question of what makes human life meaningful and worthwhile. In sum, the course is about literature, and the course is about life.

Tut100-07

Stirring the Pot: Race, Class and Gender in Higher Education

Karla Erickson – Sociology

Welcome to Grinnell College, now what do we do? Institutions of higher learning promise to socialize citizens, foster personal development, inculcate a set of values and principles, train workers, and sometimes even tout residential college living as “practice” for the “real world.” Given these disparate goals and promises, what exactly is college good for? What is ‘liberal’ about a liberal arts education? What are the rights and responsibilities of students, educators and administrators in higher education? In this course we will consider the multiple forces, political, economic and institutional that are “stirring the pot” of higher education in the U.S. today. To begin, we will develop a context for our study by examining changes in the theory and practice of liberal arts education during the 20^th century, allowing for a historically contextualized and comparative study of how social movements have shaped the discipline of Sociology specifically, and the American academy more generally. Our study will challenge us to scrutinize the politics of higher education from multiple angles: from the philosophy of liberal learning to the “pc” debate regarding what constitutes a uniquely American canon, and from the sweeping changes in the demographics of higher learning to the micropolitics of the classroom.  This tutorial will also challenge you to critically evaluate your own philosophy of education as you begin your academic journey here at Grinnell.

Tut100-08

Color, Culture and Class

Katya Gibel Azoulay – Anthropology

Race thinking dominates ways in which people in the United States differentiate groups of people from each other. This tutorial focuses on associations between color and culture in order to examine how racial meanings are constructed and made comprehensible as well as how they are routed through representations of class. Using a combination of texts—academic articles, films, newspapers and advertisements—we will explore representations of "whiteness," "blackness," and other "race-d" identities in the public arena. Throughout the semester we will interrogate the language, ideas and assumptions that give meaning to the different ways we perceive the world around us and through which we understand our individual experiences.

Tut100-09

Laura Sinnett - Psychology

What makes us who we are? Are the same mechanisms at work in other species, including our closest genetic relatives and our favorite domestic pets? Or, are conceptions of animal personality mere anthropomorphism? Can knowledge about the animal bases and development of personality inform research about human personality? This tutorial will examine conceptions of personality, including personality measurement, development, change, and the relation of personality to behaviors, both normal and pathological. Although we may consider research involving animals from antelopes to zebus and ants to zebra fish, our focus will be first on human personality, and then on personality in cats, dogs, and chimpanzees.

Tut100-10

African-American Literary Ties to Russian Intellectual Thought in the 19^th and 20^th century

Raquel Greene – Russian

This tutorial examines the affinities between Russian and African-American literature in the development of cultural nationalism. It addresses the question of how national identities are constructed, and draws attention to the similar manner in which 19^th  and 20^th century Russian and African-American intellectuals such as Feodor Dostoevsky and W.E.B. DuBois defined their respective national identities. We will examine how social institutions, namely Russian serfdom and American slavery, impacted on the formation of these identities. We will also examine how and why the Soviet Union, as a communist state, increased its political and social appeal to many African-American intellectuals during the 20^th century.

Tut100-11

Religion and Politics across the World

Robert Grey – Political Science

At a time of increasing religiosity in the world, religion is more and more seen as intersecting with major political issues. A theocratic government in Iran contrasts with a secular French government which refuses to let Muslim students wear headscarves in class. A secular government in an Islamic Turkey also refuses to let Muslim students wear headscarves to class, while, in America, fundamentalist Christians object to the teaching of evolution and to any sex education other than abstinence. The tutorial will examine why religious fervor is rising across the world, and in what contexts religiosity dictates a political agenda. We will examine a number of cases, including the United States, Turkey, Iran and India. This tutorial will link periodically with two other tutorials, the first taught by Professor Kathleen Skerrett (Religion) and the second taught by Professor Clark Lindgren (Biology). Our readings will prepare us for educated involvement in the Rosenfield Symposium on Religion and Politics that will be hosted by Grinnell College in early November.

Tut100-12

Americans in Paris: Through the Looking Glass

Jan Gross – French

For centuries, Americans have responded to the irresistible allure of Paris. From statesmen (Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson), African-American musicians, writers and performers (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet), writers (Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach), avant-garde artists, gastronomes (Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher), cyclists (Lance Armstrong), to waves of college students and tourists, Americans have crossed the Atlantic much like pilgrims in search of a promised land. Through literary readings, films, memoirs, essays and cultural analyses, we will examine the myths and realities associated with the Franco-American encounter and consider the myriad of ways that the City of Light has influenced and been influenced by its American voyagers. As a gateway to self-discovery and self-expression, an international meeting place for revolutionary movements and free thinkers, and a refuge from racial and political barriers, Paris has been many things to many different Americans. In addition to an overview of the broader American experience, we will pay special attention to issues of race and ethnicity as applied to the African American in Paris and the role of Black Paris as a crossroads to the larger French-speaking world.

Tut100-13

STORIES FROM A NEW WORLD:  FINDING GRINNELL THROUGH POP CULTURE, QUICK STUDIES, AND IRREVERENT SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Nancy Hayes – Education

Sarah Vowell’s Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World collects stories and essays she’s written about contemporary American life for print, radio, and electronic media. In this tutorial we’ll use Vowell’s collection to decide what makes a story a story and to find the truth in her fiction. Her unique blend of the historical and political with the geographical and autobiographical will serve as a model for our own talk, research, reading, and writing about life in Grinnell. We will draw on related texts and qualitative research methodologies to investigate the social and scholarly worlds in which we take part here, paying particular attention to the use of humor to create engaging descriptions of our own (learning) environments and experiences. We’ll develop these descriptions into written, oral, and digital pieces suitable for both academic and popular audiences.

Tut100-14

Neighbors

Daniel Kaiser – History

Some commentators describe conflicts of the contemporary world as reflecting a “clash of civilizations,” pitting great cultural constructs like Christianity and Islam or Occident and Orient against one another. But many of the most violent episodes of the twentieth century have played out not between civilizations, but among neighbors, the people who lived next door, down the street, or around the corner. This tutorial will concentrate attention upon these close encounters in an effort to determine what explains them and what can be done to avoid their recurrence in the future. Case studies will use history, fiction and film to examine local conflicts in war-time Poland, in an Iowa small town, in Bosnia and Rwanda, among others.

Tut100-15

Ghost Stories

Shuchi Kapila – English

In this course, we will study ghosts and literary ghost stories. Do such fantasies provide an escape from an oppressive reality into a wish-fulfilling world or do they present an exaggerated or distorted version of the “real” world? What are literary ghosts and monsters? Are they particular to the historical moment in which they appear? Texts for the course will include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Tut100-16

Many Roads to Truth: Acrimony, Authority, and Assumptions

Clark Lindgren – Biology

Truth. What is it? How do we get it? Many different answers have been offered throughout human history and have been a source of persistent controversy. The controversy shows no sign of lessening and, especially in the United States, the divisions between people with divergent viewpoints appear to be growing stronger. Witness the current “debate” playing out on school boards and in the media between evolution and intelligent design. This tutorial will examine the pursuit of truth in science, religion and politics, paying particular attention to the unique mix found in the United States during the early years of the 21^st century. After scrutinizing several methods for discerning truth, each member of the tutorial will develop a personal strategy for seeking truth. For the “final exam” each student will describe, defend and apply their strategy to answer the ultimate question of human origins: “What is a human?” This tutorial will link periodically with two other tutorials, the first taught by Professor Bob Grey (Religion and Politics around the World) and the second taught by Professor Kathleen Skerrett (Religion and Politics in the United States). Some of the authors of our readings will be presenting their ideas at a symposium on religion and politics that will be hosted by Grinnell College in early November.

Tut100-17

Visions of War: Depictions of War and its Aftermath in Literature and Film

Jennifer Michaels – German

In this tutorial, we will examine how writers and filmmakers have depicted war and its aftermath in the 20^th century. We will look in particular at the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Vietnam War. We will read and discuss a variety of texts written by German, Japanese, American, and other writers, including Holocaust survivors and survivors of Hiroshima and will view films by a variety of filmmakers from different countries.

Tut100-18

The Person Behind the Discovery

Martin Minelli – Chemistry

Many breakthroughs in science, especially in the early days, are attributed to the work of one person. The names of these people are mentioned in textbooks, but the reader is generally not informed about the personality of the discoverer, their background or how the discovery was made. In this tutorial we look at the personalities and background of people who made outstanding contributions in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine. We will study the historical setting these people worked in, their family background, their education, their professional career and finally how they made their significant contribution to science and what impact it had. Was it planned or was it by accident? A general discussion of science and scientific topics is also included.

Tut100-19

GLOBALIZATION

Mark Montgomery – Economics

Check the labels on the clothes you are now wearing—it is likely that every item was manufactured in some other country. Globalization is happening now, it is happening everywhere, and it unlikely to stop happening anytime soon. The question is: Should we be pleased or frightened? Many apparently think the latter because global economic integration encounters hostility from a surprisingly diverse array of opponents: farmers, environmentalists, organized labor, social activists, and (of course) college students.  Moreover, the debate over globalization is extraordinarily intense, sometimes involving riot squads and tear gas, as in Seattle in 1999. What is all of this passion about? We will examine the globalization controversy drawing on sources from scholarly literature, the popular press, government documents, commercial advertising, and propaganda on both sides of the issue. We will relentlessly pursue this controversy, even if we have to go to the movies!

Tut100-20

THE COLD POLITICS OF GLOBAL WARMING

Wayne Moyer – Political Science

Students will first conduct an inquiry into the current state of scientific knowledge about human induced climate change caused by the atmospheric build-up of greenhouse gases. They then will delve into why governments have been so slow in taking action to limit climate change, and why international cooperation has been so ineffective. Attention will be given to the international negotiations leading up to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the strengths and weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol, and the prospects for more effective action in the years to come.

Tut100-21

A Woman’s Place

Tammy Nyden-Bullock – Philosophy

The seventeenth century is arguably the most important century in the making of the modern world.  The Medieval world view, founded on the authority of the Church and Aristotelian philosophy, gave way to the modern science of Galileo and Newton, the new philosophy of Descartes, and the modern political theories of Hobbes and Locke (not to mention to rise of capitalism and invention of calculus). Needless to say, these were exciting intellectual times.  What role did women play in the formation of this new worldview? In this tutorial, we will examine two senses of “a woman’s place” in Seventeenth-Century Europe: the role that women played in the intellectual culture and the way women were portrayed by that culture. We will examine the lives and ideas of women such as Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Damaris Cudworth Masham—women who influenced the likes of Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz through their correspondence, friendship, and philosophical writings. We will also read selections from The Equality of the Two Sexes (1673) by François Poullain de la Barre and A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) by Mary Astell: two works which argue for a reevaluation of a woman’s place based on the principles of the new philosophy.

Tut100-22

IMAGINING THE CARIBBEAN, 1492-1789

Teresa Prendergast – English

Why were early modern Europeans so fascinated with the Caribbean? What happens when Europeans encounter Africans and Indigenous Americans in this “New World”? How do writers of the period imagine or recreate the speech and actions of Indigenous Caribbean peoples? Why do these writers continually return to the theme of cannibalism? We will explore such questions by reading fictional texts, journals, early ethnographic writings, and court documents that focus on early encounters between Africans, Europeans, and indigenous Caribbean peoples from the late fifteenth through the late eighteenth centuries. Texts will include excerpts from Columbus’ diaries, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Caribbean captivity narratives, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and legal documents surrounding the mysterious life and death of “Indian” Warner.

Tut100-23

American Memorials and the Politics of Memory

Sarah Purcell – History

In the post-September 11 United States, public memory has taken on heightened social importance.  Plans for several September 11 memorials are well under way, and the public recollection and commemoration of the events of September 11 have taken on a large role in American political discourse. Why does the American public feel the need to commemorate sacrifice, and why is there a debate over the proper form of public memory? This tutorial will explore these questions and will put the current debate in the context of a long tradition of public memorials in America. Students will investigate how Americans have often defined important matters such as national identity, politics, and race in the process of building memorials that celebrate the past. We will analyze formal commemorations such as war memorials (including the Bunker Hill Monument and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial), museums, and national parks; popular culture commemorations in graffiti, rap music, and on the web; and proposals for new kinds of monuments in the twenty-first century. We will investigate how public memory has been and continues to be politicized.

Tut100-24

Misbehavior of Memory

Nancy Rempel-Clower – Psychology

Our memories are our record of who we are and our connections with the world around us. Memory is amazing, but far from perfect. Why do we forget where we parked the car? Why do we remember a seemingly insignificant childhood event? Can we rely on our memories to be accurate? This tutorial will explore various ways in which memory can “misbehave” and the implications of this “misbehavior” in our daily lives. In addition to our exploration of normal memory and its errors, we will consider how the study of true memory disorders can inform our understanding of memory processes. Selected readings will focus primarily on approaches to understanding memory from the fields of psychology and neuroscience.

Tut100-25

AMERICAN CINEMA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

Janet Seiz – Economics

Hollywood has been called “the dream factory,” and some of its most popular products have been examinations of the American Dream. Sometimes there’s a hero whose determination and hard work lead to prosperity and happiness. In other films the American Dream is pictured as unattainable, or its pursuit is shown to be destructive. In this course, we will watch and discuss ten important films from the 1930s to the 1980s that offer contrasting messages about American capitalism. We will read about the history of the US film industry, focusing on how filmmaking techniques have evolved and how movies have reflected and shaped broader social changes. Students will write several short essays and give a class presentation on a research project.

Tut100-26

COMEDY

Erik Simpson – English

In this Tutorial, we will focus primarily on the process of crafting analytical papers about literature and film. We will spend a number of class sessions in a workshop format, which will allow the class to participate in a collaborative editorial process, and the rest of our time in discussion. Assigned texts will range from the traditional materials of English classes (a Shakespeare play, a Jane Austen novel) to fairy tales, films (The Princess Bride, Manhattan, Pulp Fiction), and a range of interdisciplinary texts about joking, laughter, and comedy. Throughout the semester, our focus will remain on developing the skills of written and oral expression, textual analysis, revision, and research. Graded assignments will include in-class work, oral presentations, short writing assignments, and a final portfolio of essays.

Tut100-27

Religion and Politics in the United States

Kathleen Skerrett – Religious Studies

We will consider the contemporary influence of religious citizens in the political processes of the United States. Our tutorial will explore, in particular, the constitutional framework that balances disestablishment of religion with the right to free exercise of religion in this country. We will consider contemporary political activism among religious citizens in support of civil rights, anti-imperialism, public education with respect to intelligent design, regulation of scientific research, and anti-sodomy laws. This tutorial will link periodically with two other tutorials, the first taught by Professor Bob Grey (Political Science) and the second taught by Professor Clark Lindgren (Biology). Our readings will prepare us for educated involvement in the Rosenfield Symposium on Religion and Politics that will be hosted by Grinnell College in early November. While the content of the tutorial is very important to me, the syllabus is designed explicitly to promote students’ development of skills in active reading, lucid writing, and constructive involvement in classroom discussions.

Tut100-28

Old English Rediscovered

Paula Smith – English

Most readers know something about Beowulf, but what else was written in that time? The rich offerings of Old English poetry—weird charms, bawdy riddles, scenes of gruesome battle, laments of men and women in exile, and cryptic words of wisdom—have captivated prose writers and poets including Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges, John Gardner, Denise Levertov, Kevin Crossley-Holland and Jill Paton-Walsh.  These modern and contemporary writers look to the Anglo-Saxon poets for vivid language in which to describe violence, alienation, fear, wonder, redemption, courage, physical needs, and the endurance of loss. In this tutorial we will study modern works of literature such as Grendel, “The Green Children,” “The Seafarer,” and “Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf” side by side with accessible translations of the original works that inspired them: the earliest poems and prose in English, written over a thousand years ago.

Tut100-29

FREE SOFTWARE, FREE CULTURE

John Stone – Computer Science

Recent developments in copyright law and mechanisms for controlling the production and distribution of creative works impose socially counterproductive constraints on artists and innovators, impeding the evolution of new forms and styles, squandering the opportunity for cultural development and exchange that digital technology provides, and reserving to media corporations the freedom to guide, shape, and contribute to popular culture. We shall explore legal ways to oppose these trends, beginning with techniques developed over the last twenty years by the Free Software movement, techniques that take advantage of copyright law to protect the free development and exchange of computer software.

Tut100-30

PAINTING MODERNITY

Susan Strauber – Art

What do we mean when we identify our times as modern? Many of the characteristics of contemporary western society actually emerged during the later nineteenth century in the new cultural capitals of Europe, particularly Paris. One way to explore the emergence of modern cultural phenomena is to examine the artists of 1860s Paris who sought to depict this new society—its appearance, its values, and its effects on the individual—on their canvases. Our tutorial will study the paintings of Edouard Manet and the Impressionists, along with writings of the period and historical texts, to understand the formation of modernity. We will consider how their paintings and their artistic practices connect to the new phenomena of modern life: urban space, photography, leisure time and public entertainment, the commodity culture of department stores, and sexual and social class consciousness and tensions.

Tut100-31

Engineered Humans:  A Study in Technology and Literature

Paul Tjossem – Physics

While the technology of genetic engineering holds high promise for enhancing human potential, using science to change the human body to attain personal or societal goals of “perfection” has long held an uneasy place in literature. This tutorial will combine novels (e.g. Frankenstein, Brave New World, He, She, and It) with readings from scientists such as Galton, Haldane and Gould, to examine the attempts to change the pace and alter the direction of human evolution. We will look at the scientific eugenics movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and follow this with the fledgling modern-day echo of appearance-altering surgery, gene therapy, and cloning. Discussion will focus on how, in both science and literature, human-altering technologies force us to confront the question of what it means to be human.

Tut100-32

Computing:  Limitations, Developments, and Ethical Issues

Henry Walker – Computer Science

With the many successful applications of computers to solve a wide range of problems, it is natural to wonder what lies ahead for this technology. This tutorial will review ideas behind several active areas within the field of computing, including applications in artificial intelligence (e.g., expert systems and neural networks), approaches to Web-based database systems (e.g., record-keeping applications and e-commerce), and research in multi-processor computing (e.g., parallel algorithms and distributed systems). Each of these areas provides perspectives on problem-solving, and this tutorial will explore each of these perspectives in some detail. Artificial intelligence studies both how the human mind might function and approaches for solving problems often associated with intelligent decision making; Web-based applications often integrate efficient data storage with understandable and easy-to-use interfaces within the context of data security and personal privacy; parallel algorithms involve problem-solving approaches which take advantage of multiple processors; and distributed computing utilizes networks of machines for the storage and processing of data. To complement the discussion of many successes of computing, the tutorial also will identify factors that limit how computers may be used. Results from the theory of computation show that some problems are inherently not solvable, while practical considerations restrict the nature of the solutions that may be found for other problems. Finally, the widespread use of computers in today's society raises questions of ethical behaviors and responsible use. Thus, the tutorial will consider principles and practices related to cyberethics.