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3.00 Credits
In the capstone seminar, students working on an independent project in line with the theme of the seminar share their scholarship, integrating what they have learned in the major, emphasizing knowledge gained in their focus area, as well as presenting their work at a concluding mini-conference. The capstone experience involves close analysis of cultural artifacts that examine at a higher level issues first raised in the introductory course. The department plans to offer two seminars every year, at least one in media studies, enabling students to select the seminar most relevant to their intellectual development. In exceptional cases, students with sufficient preparation may take the seminar prior to their senior year. Students may take more than one senior Seminar (488) as long as content varies. Prerequisite: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 110 (Texts and Power: Foundations of Cultural Studies), or permission of instructor. Recommended prerequisite for film studies seminars: Humanities and Media and Cultural Studies 128, Film Analysis and Visual Culture. Non-majors are welcome if they have taken 110 or a comparable course. Recent seminar topics have included: Image/Text: Metaphor, Myth and Power; Advanced Film Analysis; Advanced Studies in War and Media; Postmodernism, Identity and the Media; Whiteness and the Media; Advanced Queer Media. Every semester. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Closely supervised individual or small group study for advanced students on a subject not available through regular catalog offerings. Every semester. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
For the advanced student capable of independent study and the production of original work. Prerequisite: normally junior or senior standing and permission of the instructor. Every semester. (1-4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
The department offers a variety of internships in educational, business, and governmental institutions. Internships sponsored by department faculty are available only to juniors and seniors who have made substantial progress toward the major or have completed a media studies minor or the equivalent and must be grounded in previous coursework. Normally, internships are graded pass/fail. Exceptions to this policy permitting a letter grade may be made at the discretion of the individual faculty member sponsoring the internship. Internships may be of variable credit as determined by the instructor, and up to four credits may be applied to the department major. Every semester. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Work in assisting a faculty member on a varied range of activities involved in the planning and teaching of a course. Duties usually include course attendance, library research, test correction, conducting group study sessions, and tutoring individual students. Normally available only to juniors and seniors who have taken the course they will precept. Every semester. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Independent research, writing, or other preparation leading to the culmination of the senior honors project. Every semester. (1-4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Globalization is upon us, resulting in unprecedented cultural interpenetration and civilizational encounter. Most of what animates this condition is old. However, the contemporary velocity, reach, and mutations of these forces suggest a new "world time," full of contradictions, perils, and promises. This course introduces students toglobalization by asking What is globalization, and how does one study it What are the principal forces (social groups, ideas, institutions, and ecology) that shaped and propel it What are its consequences, and how do we respond Open to first- and second-year students. Every fall. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
One of the most significant trends of the current era has been globalization: the shrinking of distances, the greater interpenetration of the world's peoples, and the rise, perhaps, of global culture. Yet it is too simple to say, "it's all a big mix," for the questions of how the mixing is done, and who mixes, are complex. The study oliterature illuminates these questions. By reading important recent texts, this course tackles "world" questions:what does it mean to be from a certain place what is a culture and who are we in it We'll link personal readings in dialogue with the world. Texts will be drawn from U.S. multicultural, "world," and travel literature,and rich theoretical readings. Open to first- and second-year students. Next offered in 2009-2010. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course investigates the effects of globalization on worldwide cultural identities, with media and popular culture as the primary focus of inquiry. We will interrogate where cultural identity and symbolic communities come from and consider the politics of common culture. We will ask who defines meanings, and what meanings are omitted. Combining theory, worldwide media (film, video, e-media, music and more), and case studies, we will explore numerous paradigms (modernization, cultural imperialism, post-modernism, post-structuralism) as frameworks of understanding. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course develops a base of knowledge, concepts, and analytical skills for engaging with International Studies' multi-dimensional concerns. Ranging across disciplines but with an emphasis on social science, we study global theories of interaction and conflict between human groups, situate globalization historically, and explore sites and implications of increasing encounter. Focusing on culture, people flows, nationalism and ethnicity, democratization, security, religious fundamentalism, gender, and the environment, we examine how particular cases reflect broader processes. Open to first- and second-year students. Every year. (4 credits)
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