AP/HUMA 2001 6.00

Understanding Culture: Text, Image, Music

This course introduces students to the theoretical study of culture, offering tools for understanding, questioning, and analyzing the social, historical, and political contexts of the media we experience on a day-to-day basis. It covers and develops the fours streams of the Humanities Major: Power, Diaspora, and Race; Arts, Material, and Popular cultures; Digital, Technological, and Natural Worlds; Texts, Contexts, Interpretations. (All Humanities Majors will be required to take this core course)