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This course outlines the major theoretical concepts underlying cultural studies practice. Much of contemporary cultural studies draws upon feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism, critical race theory, and semiotics. We will read, discuss, and apply works from theorists such as Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, Dubois, de Beauvoir, Foucault, Barthes, Chomsky, and Hooks, among others. Pre-Requisite: Comp II and Introduction to Cultural Studies 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 46-1100 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES, 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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This course introduces students to diverse methods of inquiry in the field of cultural studies. It provides students with an understanding of critical vocabularies and examines key issues in cultural studies research. Students in this class will learn to utilize various methodologies relevant to interdisciplinary problems and questions that the field of cultural studies poses. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 46-2100 CULTURAL THEORIES
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Hip hop has captured the minds of youth worldwide spawning themes, trends, attitudes, and behaviors that are similar to but distinct from the manifestation of hip hop in the US. This course is designed as an intellectual excursion to explore the global creation and consumption of hip hop through the lens of cultural studies. Class will study processes of imitation, appropriation, translation, and customization and their impact on themes of gender, hegemony, commercialism, sexuality, race, and identity. 3 CREDIT S
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This course will study the postmodern satirical presentations and commentary which The Simpsons has made (and continues to make) through its utilization of the humanities. We will examine how The Simpsons raises and comments on issues of civic, cultural, gender, global, and political identities using traditional humanities studies including artistic, film, literary, philosophical, and religious critiques. Special emphasis will focus on self-referentiality and how The Simpsons satirizes both itself and its characters as an operative principle and strategy. 3 CREDIT S
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Since the early 1990s, globalization--a multi-faceted and highly contested concept--has become the new buzz word used to name, frame, and also direct the processes of social and technological change that have been taking place all over the world. By the same token, and since then, issues of globalization have been a central preoccupation of intellectual debates and political discourses and practices. This course aims to introduce students to the hotly debated and highly contested conceptual and social phenomenon of globalization, its histories, manifestations, implications, as well as its consequences for the individual and society. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 46-1100 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES OR 51-1101 WESTERN HUMANITIES
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This course is an inquiry into the concept of national culture, the issues of cultural resistance and negotiation, and the complexities of citizenship and representation in Puerto Rico. The island is unique in its development during the 20th century because it is, in fact, a nation without a sovereign state, and its political relationship with the United States, along with its cultural and historical links to Latin America, provide fascinating perspectives in subjectivity, transculturation, nationalism, and popular and official cultures. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 46-1100 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES OR 49-1402 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: SINCE 1800
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Technologies have long played a critical role in the development and sustenance of human societies and they have similarly raised some of the most vital questions about humanity and the natural world. Indeed, the relationships between people and machines are distinctly shaped by interconnected cultural, socioeconomic, religious, and political contexts that inform the invention, innovation, and use of technologies. This course introduces students to some of the key theorists and critics of technology and engages with a number of cultural histories of industrial technologies (the factory, the assembly line), communications technologies (the telegraph, the radio, the phone, the television, the computer), transportation technologies (the car, the bicycle), technologies of the home (appliances, electrification) and technologies of the body (prosthetics, implants, birth control). The goal of this course is for students to utilize these perspectives as a means to initiate and develop a critical analysis of technologies in their culture context. 3 CREDIT S
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This course presents opportunity for hands-on civic engagement, with two guiding questions: 1) Can art save lives 2) It might be activism, but is it art Students read theory and examine examples of artistic activism in the larger context of social and political issues informing artistic action. In the studio students execute their artistic action plan. Students will complete, present, and hand in written assignments reflecting on and connecting theories of artistic action with their own practice of creating activist art. 3 CREDIT S
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An independent study is designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project. 3 CREDIT S
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The social value of physical things (sometimes called material culture by anthropologists) is often overlooked in the study of human interactions. Course will investigate how objects mediate relationships between individuals and social groups. Current theories in the anthropology of material culture will help students examine ethnographic case studies about the manufacture and the trade of objects from several different world areas. Students will be encouraged to develop broader understandings of the ways in which objects are used in their own lives. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 46-1100 INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES, 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
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