Critical/Cultural CommStudies

COM 75-134-01/02 | Spring 2017

 

Course Schedule and Resource Links:

 

Jan 11: Mapping the Course/Introductions

Jan 16: --No class, MLK day--

Jan 18: What is Critical/Cultural CommStudies?

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 1; Herrman, "Stage Craft"
Due: Discussion Questions

Jan 23: Authors and Readers

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Chs. 2-3
Due: Discussion Questions

Jan 25: Subjectivity

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 4
Due: Discussion Questions

Jan 30: Cultural Semiotics

Read: Hall, "The Work of Representation" pp. 1-26 plus Reading A (Bryson), B (Barthes), C (Barthes), D (Barthes)
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 1: Discourse

Read: Hall, "The Work of Representation" pp. 26-47 plus Reading E (Laclau/Mouffe), and Reading F (Showalter)
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 6: "That's Me" Presentations

Feb 8: Embodied Performances

Read: Goffman, from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Due: "That's You" Paper
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 13: Culture

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 5
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 15: Ideology; Review

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 6
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 20: --Mid-Term Exam--

Feb 22: History/Memory

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch 7; Walker, "Things To Do in Cyberspace When You Are Dead"
Due: Discussion Questions

Feb 27: Space/Time

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 8; de Certeau, "Trajectories, Tactics, Rhetorics"; "Walking in the City"
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 1: Gender and Sexuality

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, pp. 171-189
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 6: Race and Class

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, pp. 189-205
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 8: Power and Privilege

Read: McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege" and McIntosh, "Privilege Checklist"
Due: Discussion Questions
Due: Communication/Culture/Identity Analysis Project

Mar 13-15: --No Class--Spring Break--

Mar 20: Post-modernism/structuralism/colonialism

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 9
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 22: Biopower

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 11
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 27: Nature/Culture

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 12
Due: Discussion Questions

Mar 29: Agency

Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 13
Due: Discussion Questions

Apr 3: --Reading Day--

Apr 5: The Medium is the Message

Read: McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 1

Apr 10: Mobile Communication, Social Media, and Constant Connectivity

Read: de Souza e Silva & Frith, "Introduction"
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 2

Apr 12: Interpellation, Spectatorship, and Identification

Read: Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"; Smith, "How Do We Identify with Characters?"
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 3

Apr 17: Commodification, Resistance, and Incorporation

Read: Fiske, "The Jeaning of America"
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 4

Apr 19: Culture Jamming

Read: Harold, "Pranking Rhetoric"
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 5

Apr 24: --Reading Day--

Apr 26: Review/Course Evaluations

Due: Discussion Questions

May 4 (Thursday): --Final Exam--

Section 1 (11 AM): 1:30-4:30 PM
Section 2 (1:30 PM): 8:30-11:30 AM

 

Course Syllabus

 

 

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