Investigates how children and youth use digital technologies and new media both as "extensions" of individual identities and facilitators of "youth culture." Texting, sexting, tweeting, learning, playing, protesting, creating-how are youth making meaning of the world through digital youth cultures? What are children and youth doing in a digital world and what are the implications […]
Explores the human condition of childhood as portrayed and experienced in Canadian culture over time.
This course studies selected ancient Greek and Roman novels in English translation, the social and literary currents which shape their narratives, and their role in the cultural politics of their era.
The course examines contemporary and posthumous literary and iconographic representations of Caligula, Claudius and Nero, Roman emperors from AD 37 to 68, and explores the cultural conditions that help to explain why they were represented in such a hostile manner. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HUMA 4100A 6.00 (prior […]
The Interdisciplinary Capstone Project allows upper-year undergraduate students in LA&PS to work in multi-disciplinary teams with students from across the university on pressing, 'real-world¿ challenges posed by organizations operating in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. Teams research, design, test and reflect on potential solutions to their challenge that build on existing skills and knowledge acquired […]
This course explores the importance of biographical and autobiographical writing in the ancient Mediterranean among Greeks, Romans, and minority populations, focusing less on the subjects of each life and more on literary, ethnic, social, cultural. Crosslisted with RLST 4109 6.00 and CLST 4109 6.00
Examines the specific role that art and artists have played in selected social movements.
The underlying project of the course is the analysis of how we make meaning through art forms. More specifically, we will investigate the literary, music, and visual cultures of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to examine what we could call, with hindsight, a burgeoning interdisciplinary and interartistic inclination. The course contextualizes how and why this […]
Investigates the employment of the created environment and other expressions of culture for propagandistic purposes, meant to advance privileged ideologies in politics, religion, and social interchange. Discusses examples chosen from different eras and communities, including modern and contemporary applications.
Probes the role of pleasure, desire and power in contemporary consumer culture, especially around objects of consumption, such as so-called designer goods or iconic products such as the Kitchenaid mixer or the Ipod.