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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-1 hour; fieldwork-hour. Prerequisite: one course chosen from course 120, Anthropology 2, Psychology 16, or Sociology 1; or consent of instructor. Exploration of the small group cultures of American corporate workplaces, including the role of environment, stories, jokes, rituals, ceremonies, personal style, and play. The effects of cultural diversity upon corporate cultures, both from within and in contact with foreign corporations.- III. (III.) de la Pe?
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; fieldwork-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 1 or upper division standing. American popular expression and experience as a cultural system, and the relationship between this system and elite and folk cultures. Exploration of theories and methods for discovering and interpreting patterns of meaning in American popular culture. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.) Kelman, Smoodin
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours; film viewing-2 hours.Critical approaches to the study of contemporary media culture, focusing specifically on film, television, computer, and print media and their products and on the various interrelationships between media and U.S. culture. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. An introduction to rhetorical analysis of social issues as depicted within media culture, with specific emphasis on the way media frame messages about new social problems. Not open to students who have taken Rhetoric and Communication 124. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-(III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Women's Studies or American Studies. The histories, theories, and practices of feminist traditions within cultural studies. (Same course as Women's Studies 139.) GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. (III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-1 hour; fieldwork-hours. Prerequisite: course 1, upper division standing. Comparative study of several American cultural populations inhabiting a region, including their relationship to a shared biological, physical, and social environment, their intercultural relations, and their relationships to the dominant American popular and elite culture and folk traditions. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Experienceof childhood and adolescence in American culture, as understood through historical, literary, artistic, and social scientific approaches. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. (III.) Smith
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Interdisciplinaryexamination of past and present tensions between the individual and the community in American experience, as those tensions are expressed in such cultural systems as folklore, public ritual, popular entertainment, literature, fine arts, architecture, and social thought. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II. (II.) Kelman, Wang
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Interdisciplinaryexamination of the lives of boys and men in America, toward understanding cultural definitions of masculinity, the ways individuals have accepted or resisted these definitions, and the broader consequences of the struggle over the social construction of gender. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.- I. (I.) Mechling
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; discussion-2 hours. Prerequisite:course 1. Interdisciplinary examination of selected, richly expressive events (parades, festivals, holidays) and symbols (flags, memorials, temples) which encode nationwide values and understandings (Thanksgiving, New Year's, etc.) or which realize more limited, special meanings (Mardi Gras, rodeo, Kwanza, graduation, bar mitzvah, etc.). Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SocSci, Div, Wrt.-III. Biltekoff, de la Pe?
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