Critical/Cultural CommStudies |
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COM 75-134-01/02 | Spring 2017 |
Course Schedule and Resource Links:
Jan 11: Mapping the Course/IntroductionsJan 16: --No class, MLK day--
Jan 18: What is Critical/Cultural CommStudies?
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 1; Herrman, "Stage Craft"Jan 23: Authors and Readers
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Chs. 2-3Jan 25: Subjectivity
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 4Jan 30: Cultural Semiotics
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Hall, "The Work of Representation" pp. 1-26 plus Reading A (Bryson), B (Barthes), C (Barthes), D (Barthes)Feb 1: Discourse
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Hall, "The Work of Representation" pp. 26-47 plus Reading E (Laclau/Mouffe), and Reading F (Showalter)Feb 6: "That's Me" Presentations
Due: Discussion Questions
Feb 8: Embodied Performances
Read: Goffman, from The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeFeb 13: Culture
Due: "That's You" Paper
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 5Feb 15: Ideology; Review
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 6Feb 20: --Mid-Term Exam--
Due: Discussion Questions
Feb 22: History/Memory
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch 7; Walker, "Things To Do in Cyberspace When You Are Dead"Feb 27: Space/Time
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 8; de Certeau, "Trajectories, Tactics, Rhetorics"; "Walking in the City"Mar 1: Gender and Sexuality
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, pp. 171-189Mar 6: Race and Class
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, pp. 189-205Mar 8: Power and Privilege
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege" and McIntosh, "Privilege Checklist"Mar 13-15: --No Class--Spring Break--
Due: Discussion Questions
Due: Communication/Culture/Identity Analysis Project
Mar 20: Post-modernism/structuralism/colonialism
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 9Mar 22: Biopower
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 11Mar 27: Nature/Culture
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 12Mar 29: Agency
Due: Discussion Questions
Read: Nealon & Searls Giroux, Ch. 13Apr 3: --Reading Day--
Due: Discussion Questions
Apr 5: The Medium is the Message
Read: McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"Apr 10: Mobile Communication, Social Media, and Constant Connectivity
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 1
Read: de Souza e Silva & Frith, "Introduction"Apr 12: Interpellation, Spectatorship, and Identification
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 2
Read: Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"; Smith, "How Do We Identify with Characters?"Apr 17: Commodification, Resistance, and Incorporation
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 3
Read: Fiske, "The Jeaning of America"Apr 19: Culture Jamming
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 4
Read: Harold, "Pranking Rhetoric"Apr 24: --Reading Day--
Due: Group Public Advocacy Project Presentation 5
Apr 26: Review/Course Evaluations
Due: Discussion QuestionsMay 4 (Thursday): --Final Exam--
Section 1 (11 AM): 1:30-4:30 PM
Section 2 (1:30 PM): 8:30-11:30 AM
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