|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
3.00 Credits
No course description available.
-
3.00 Credits
This course combines methodological tools from business and anthropology for analyzing the impact of migration movements on local socio-economic conditions and on the markets and the economy. This joint approach will focus on the study of the economic, social and cultural dimensions of Mexican migration, --the largest contemporary source of migration to the United States-- with a particular emphasis on two economic aspects, namely (1) entrepreneurial traits and skills of the migrant population and (2) the pattern and level of remittances by the migrant sector residing in the USA. The course also considers how transnational social, cultural, political and religious networks and institutions affect and are affected by Mexicans' activities as workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and general economic agents. The course will examine the following topics: the role of remittances in the Mexican economy, local business partnerships between migrant organizations and the state, Mexican transnational households' financial structure, characteristics of the Mexican migrant labor force, consumption patterns and savings behavior, and the study of a Latino/Hispanic market segment in the USA which includes the production and/or sales of Mexican products, special advertising, and promotion techniques specifically targeted for that market. Comparative case studies of entrepreneurs based in central Mexico and those of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. Midwest complete the course and seek to understand how these economic agents and community leaders build economic, social and cultural capital in the context of the communities where they reside.
-
3.00 Credits
The ideological character of the 19th century concept of folklore allowed it to transcend the social category of peasants from whom it was largely recorded. This course will look at the role of folklore in the building of an Irish national culture from the time of the Gaelic Revival. Programmatic texts in Irish and in English by Douglas Hyde, first president of the Gaelic League, and by Séamus Delargy, director of the Irish Folklore Commission, will be discussed. It will also look at a later polemical text of the Gaelic writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain directed at what he perceived as the essentialism of Irish folklorists. No knowledge of the Irish language required.
-
3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the philosophy, principles, and practice underlying the social and political aspects of Latino art. We will approach this analysis by examining a range of topics, including Chicano and Puerto Rican poster art, mural art, Latina aesthetics, and border art.
-
3.00 Credits
In this course we will examine the "violence of everyday life" experienced by people both inside and outside of active war zones, and investigate how taken-for-granted structures such as bureaucracy, security, nation, color and creed (to name only a few) constrain and damage peoples' lives, causing suffering and stress, and often leading to radicalism and violence. How do physical walls perpetrate and perpetuate violence? Why does resource richness cause poverty and war? What is the lived experience of systematic inequality? When does everyday hopelessness become explosive violence? Students will examine how violence is both culturally mediated and understood, and will learn to recognize the symptoms and anticipate the consequences of oppression, neglect, and resistance around the world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|