FULLY ONLINE This course introduces students to Indigenous cinema in the United States and Canada, although films from Mexico, the Andes (Quechua) and Brazil will be screened when available. Students view approximately ten films and read works of film theory and criticism in order to analyze how Indigenous peoples use the moving image to re-present […]
Students discover how local cultural production is fostered, disseminated, and in some cases restricted in and by the communities they serve. Building on cultural theories and concepts of public pedagogy, students work in small groups with partner organizations to engage in a choice of research or community focused experiential learning activities to be used for […]
This course focuses on interrogating how the modern conception of race and racism has been produced and reproduced within cultural forms over time. We will analyze fictional and non- fictional texts to critique the role of culture and representation played in both constituting and perpetuating the violences of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. We will […]
Explores the form, function and content of Spoken Word, in terms of language, rhythm, historical developments, social- political contexts, as well as key artists of poetry, rap, dub, slam, lyricism and spoken word as live and direct purveyors of culture. By examining performance as text and artist/creator narratives, commentaries and cultural discourse, students survey the […]
This course considers sound as a social, aesthetic, historical, material, and political phenomenon, highlighting how it integrates with contemporary artistic practices. Students will learn about sound art experimental music; be introduced to the physics of sound; and explore how sonic and extra-sonic forces collide. Through these foci, the course addresses the cultural politics of sound, […]
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 issues of gender and sexuality in Greco-Roman culture through reading Greek and Roman literature in translation.
Examines childhood experience and the social construction of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the end of classical antiquity. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3103 3.00.
An overview of the society, culture, politics and history of fifth-century Athens providing the context for a close reading of selected ancient Greek tragedies and a range of modern critical approaches to Greek tragedy. Course credit exclusion: AP/HUMA 3100 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HUMA 3100 6.00.
Through the study of selected examples of tricksters from a diverse range of cultural contexts and historical periods, this course examines the importance of cultural transgression in the chaotic process of creating culture and the centrality of the trickster figure in this process. An interdisciplinary theoretical framework sets the context for the examination of contemporary […]