ML 471 - Integrative Capstone II:Constructions of Culture

Institution:

University of Hartford

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Description:

This is the second and final course in a required capstone sequence. The capstone sequence (ML 470-471) presumes advanced competence based on previous experience in the study of major writers, ideas, and cultural periods within the student's target literature and culture program. This course will explore and situate theory and methods from cultural studies, an approach in which literary and artistic texts, including film, television, and video, are treated as conveyors of the working myths of a culture, not representations of essences or natures. Cultural studies treats texts as living structures that tend to become frozen within the limits of a historico-cultural scene and to intermingle with the scene to such an extent that imagining something else becomes difficult. In this way, particular categories of class, race, gender, sexualities, and the like acquire the status of norms (become normalized). The course focuses on how messages are constructed, how readers deconstruct them, and on distinct approaches to reading the various texts of a given culture. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Normally taken in the senior year.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hartford.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 768-4100

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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