IDPS 104 - Making it in America

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

Americans pride themselves on values of democracy. individualism, and personal efficacy. What remain hidden in this discourse of national pride are the poverty, economic inequality, and the class, racial, gender, and sexual cleavages that are also features of American society at the beginning of the new century. This seminar will introduce students to these developments by taking us on a journey up the class ladder of American society. Through the use of film, journalism, sociology, anthropology, guest speakers and field work, we will examine American society through a variety of analytical prisms: opportunity and constraint; power and resistance; mobility ladders and mobility traps; individualism and group identities. This course is discussion-driven. Each student is expected to be full participants in class discussions. This course is also writing-intensive and will require the mastery of several different analytical styles. There will also be a final project that will deal with images of class and "making it in America" in the media. 1.00 units, Seminar

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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