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4.00 Credits
Explores the complex relations among different modalities of identity, focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and nationality. Many individuals and groups assert their identities without articulating convincing arguments. Indeed, it is often assumed that such individuals need not defend their rights; that one's own identity is a private matter that does not tolerate any intrusion. Bases of belief systems are explored through a series of theoretical perspectives and historical readings.
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Introduction to interdisciplinary field of women's and gender studies. Topics include "common differences" uniting and dividing women and men; how womanhood has been represented in myth, literature, and media; how gender inequalities have been both explained and critiqued; how gender acquires meaning when connected to race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality; and how to address feminism's historical role in promoting gender studies. Explores central paradox of contemporary thinking: the necessity to make gender both matter and not matter.
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Volunteer time and skills from your major to a nonprofit community organization. Engage in critical reflection about experiences through readings, discussion, and reflective analysis. Readings provide concepts, theories from psychology, and social and political science to analyze on-site experiences. Different modes of inquiry including the case study method in psychology, statistical analysis of survey research in political science, and ethnographic fieldwork. Value of different forms of literary and analytical writing in representing and reflecting on service-learning experience and its relationship to social activism.
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4.00 Credits
Performance is a mode of communication within and across cultures. Performance is considered from multiple disciplinary perspectives while focusing on ethnographic performance and performance art. Examines a variety of performances that construct and critique culture. Theories of performance are applied to the analysis of a canon of contemporary performance and through the development of performances for class.
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4.00 Credits
Historical, socio-economic, and ideological contexts within which 20th-century post-colonial cultures have been produced and are negotiated. Providing geographical coverage and theoretical frameworks, it examines cultural production from formerly colonized nations. Primary material and critical contexts within which these materials can be read and understood. Fulfills General Education Global Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Interrogates the roles communication media (from etchings on cave walls to full immersion virtual realities) play in formation of personal identity, self-consciousness, and consciousness of individuals as social actors. Cognitive skills and habits necessary for gaining fluency or "literacy"in print, radio, television, computers, Internet, cell phones, and personal and mass communication technologies will be considered. Conceptions of self, society, aesthetics, morality, and "culture" areestablished and maintained vis-Ã -vis different modes of communication. Critical understanding of ways communication technologies have altered and continue to change conceptions.
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4.00 Credits
Multiple interdisciplinary approaches to current debates about exile, citizenship, and tangled identities that result from post-colonial/post-war migrations. Explore unstable continuum between location and identity and discuss impact of independence, war, and globalization on national, cultural, social, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual identities. Through post-colonial, psychoanalytic, global perspectives examine issues of agency and responsibility alongside plurality of (re)visions and (re)configurations that experiences of belonging, unbelonging, ambivalence, and in-betweenness make possible using key theoretical texts.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses issues of Culture, Interculturality, Multiculturalism, and Transculturality in contemporary societies of the United States and Eastern Europe, focusing on rise of the nation in Eastern European societies and cultural pluralism in American society. Perspective that is multicultural and interdisciplinary in attempt to question leading assumptions underlying cultural identity and the constitution of "the West." FulfillsGeneral Education U.S. Diversity requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Cultural study of relationship between film and postmodern conditions of social order on how films construct images about social reality and ways in which these images present and interpret this relationship from the standpoint of postmodernism. View films analytically and apply cultural analysis to postmodern conditions of social order. Explore shifting and interdisciplinary relationships between film, film criticism, cultural analysis, and between writing and film as contemporary media forms.
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4.00 Credits
U.S. social history, race relations, and blues culture as a reflection of social change. Historical and literary materials relevant to African American social and economic development and white American cultural and address oral-expressive nature of African American culture, relationship to social experience, and influence on mainstream American culture. Topics include American social/ musical culture, the plantation South, migration, urban adaptation, experience of women, New Deal and 1960s Counterculture politics, and influence of blues culture internationally. Fulfills General Education U.S. Diversity requirement.
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