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Have you ever wondered how it is that humans have developed self-reflecting minds capable of meta-representation and other cognitive capabilities? Have you ever pondered how the human mind operates in relation to its cultural context? These are the kinds of questions that cognitive archaeologists explore and the sorts of questions we will discuss in this course. Intersecting several fields including anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, cognitive archaeology is a truly multi-disciplinary field that has contributed significantly to our understanding of the human mind. Cognitive archaeology not only deals with how the mind works and how it evolved, but it also deals with how archaeologists utilize what is known of how the mind operates in order to interpret the archaeological record. Students are expected to enhance their skills at critical reading, thoughtful analysis, constructing logical arguments, and improving written and oral communication. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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Economists have focused on competition, not cooperation as a mechanism for allocating and transforming resources, and lawyers have relied on an adversarial process to resolve disputes. However, many firms and other institutions have found cooperation to be quite beneficial. In this course, we will discuss topics such as: features common to many types of cooperation. We will examine questions such as the following: What do World War I trench warfare and urban living have in common? Does the public suffer when some groups (such as the American Medical Association, the Mafia, and Japanese firms) cooperate? Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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e live today surrounded by spin---corporations don't fire, they downsize; government pronouncements are assumed to be cynically slanted and misleading; even scholarly medical articles are written by public relations (p.r.) flacks. The guiding principle isn't truth or reality but the right message and staying on it. How and why has p.r. become such a seemingly potent force in our time? What does this say about America and its values--about even the meaning of truth? In this seminar we will explore the role of public relations and image-making, in American society today. Our objectives are (1) Examine the users of p.r. today in business, politics and popular culture to shape images and define reality; (2) explore the tools used to construct and sell those messages and perceptions and (3) Analyze the values underlying these activities--to the end of deepening our understanding society today. This seminar explores these issues through reading, both academic and popular writing, discussion, and research. The writing assignments will be both academic and various forms of media and public relations formats. We will use class time to discuss and review student writing. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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Cultural conceptions of shame and honor register different understandings of the self, revealing how identities are created and maintained. Shaming can be a way of separating insiders from outsiders and cementing communal identity, but it can also be a very visceral feeling of inadequacy. Thus, shame and honor are ways whereby individuals negotiate their place in a social community. Considering the transformation of these ideas at different temporal moments, this course will look at literary depictions of shame and honor from the classical period to the present including works by Seneca, Marlowe, and contemporary films to uncover the different conceptions of selfhood, and their relationship to their social context, at work in these texts. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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3.00 Credits
How do the things we like and the things we buy indicate who we are? What role has consumption played in the development of ideas about masculinity and femininity? Has the emergence of modern consumerism altered the way we interact with art and history? In this course, we will consider the political and ethical implications of consumerism. We will investigate the history of commodity culture, read about the early department stores in Paris and the first cases of kleptomania, and look at Victorian advertisements and popular magazines for collectors from the turn of the century. We will use the works of Karl Marx and Oscar Wilde to theorize the ethical implications of taste. The philosophical, economic, and literary texts we read will help us to understand why it is pleasurable and why it might be problematic to be manipulated by the marketplace. In addition, we will ask if there are methods for maneuvering within the possibilities of commodity culture in an ethical manner. Can we express our politics or preserve cultures and traditions with the right kinds of shopping? Can we be moral consumers? Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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3.00 Credits
Current debates over such issues as immigration and affirmative action raise core questions about the government's influence upon American race relations. What roles have various governmental entities--e.g., federal courts, state governors, and city councils--played in promoting racial equality or defending racial hierarchies? What roles should they play? And how much can the government (re)shape cultural attitudes and social practices? How much authority over race relations should remain with states and localities, and how much should be exercised by the federal government? This course offers a forum to investigate and debate such questions more thoroughly by examining a range of instances in the period from the late 19th century to the present day in which different kinds of government action have significantly influenced American race relations. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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How have dating practices changed over the past centuries? What links exist between on-line dating and sixteenth century love poetry? This course will explore western forms of courtship in literature (poetry, fiction, magazines, guidebooks, film, and critical studies) from the Renaissance to the present day. By tracing how practices of courtship and the expectations of relationships have changed over time, we will explore how romantic relationships both reflect and shape cultural attitudes about women, men and social and political order. We will consider particularly how changes in acceptable practices of dating are linked with the development of the women's movement. By exploring how the lovers' discourse remains stable and/or varies over time and place, students will be encouraged to question the often unspoken social rules and expectations that govern romantic relationships, and thus to consider how the private affair of love is a subject of intense public concern. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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This course explores important themes in the study of law, lawyers, and legal institutions by regarding their representations in movies. We will cover such issues as race/class/gender and the law, legal ethics, legal education, the adversarial system, and the image and status of the lawyer in American culture. We will also look at the ways in which law and the legal profession affect popular culture and, conversely, the ways in which poplar views of legal problems and lawyers affect law. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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In seminar format, students will develop plans for a new institution of higher learning, shaping and communicating in several different formats its mission, goals, academic focus, and physical and financial needs. Supporting the course's research, writing, and presentation expectations will be documents from existing colleges, information on the policy and social environment for such a venture, and requirements imposed by external entities such as governmental and accrediting agencies. Course will include interactions among two sets of student teams and several intermediary presentations, culminating in a group presentation of plans for the new college to a panel of experts including current or former members of the University's Board of Trustees and the Ohio Board of Regents. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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3.00 Credits
While many of us are familiar with thinking about wealth in social, political and economic terms, wealth can also be understood as a function of geography. This seminar will look at American history and culture to seek a deeper understanding of how place and wealth interact; some of the government policies that affect those interactions; and some of the grand experiments in philanthropy, law, and social policy that have tried to reverse the perceived evils of "concentrated poverty." The seminar will not require an advanced mathematical or statistical background. However, we will analyze how statistics can illuminate (and disguise) issues and problems. We will look at the business corporation as both an aggregator of wealth and as a wealth allocation system. Of necessity we will wander into matters of race, employment, power, class, culture, history, and government. Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSSO, FSCC, FSNA, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
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