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Spring 2020 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (51937)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (100 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51937/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (16893)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (183 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1001+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- What is culture? How does culture impact our everyday lives, and influence the larger world in which we live? This class will tackle the BIG questions about our living together in this world, and will throw us all into some of the most pressing and heated discussions happening today. We will come at these big questions and cultural hot topics through a consideration of contemporary and historical aspects of popular culture. This class will introduce students to various strategies for making sense of and speaking more deeply about movies, music, literature, advertisements, and current events. This will involve taking up a range of theoretical approaches to making sense of our world and our place in it. Our ultimate goal will be to ask whether a more engaged and critical perspective on our own cultures could open up space for us all to rework, rethink, and redirect our world to a better future.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Take this class if you enjoying taking on the big questions, or would be interested in being more engaged in speaking about and debating aspects of contemporary popular culture.
- Grading:
- The course grade is roughly calculated as follows: attendance/participation (20%); quizzes/exams (30%); writing assignments (50%)
- Exam Format:
- The exams are composed of questions drawn from lecture and the readings.
- Class Format:
- Each class will generally be a combination of lecture and discussion with occasional screenings.
- Workload:
- Students will complete a variety of blog/discussion posts (~6), will be responsible for reading around 40+ pages a week, and will be asked to prepare for exams.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16893/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 April 2019
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (52063)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (127 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52063/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (17124)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (177 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1001+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17124/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (48798)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 275
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (183 of 184 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1101+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48798/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (14014)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1001+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14014/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (49187)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49187/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (14166)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1001+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14166/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (46612)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 370
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?vayox001+CSCL1001+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce Cultural Studies as a critical, theoretical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary way to come to understand our world and our place in it. You will be working simultaneously in three dimensions: reading culture, theorizing culture, and changing culture. As part of this work, you will gather data from people and groups you observe, from the media, from your life, and from your own work as scholars. You will also work on developing theories about culture, to where you can start seeing connections, patterns, and a logic that governs how culture works in different situations. Finally, you will figure out how to spur cultural change, taking your critical cultural analysis and doing something with it, to put it to work changing culture toward the better.
- Grading:
- The course grade is calculated as follows: attendance/participation (15%), quizzes (25%), blogs (35%), and the final exam (25%).
- Exam Format:
- The exam is composed of short answer questions drawn from each of the major units in the course.
- Class Format:
- Each 75 minute class period typically contains 35 minutes of lecture/presentation, 25 minutes of discussion in blog communities, and 10-15 minutes of summary and preparation for the following class.
- Workload:
- Students will complete ten blog entries with accompanying comments, take five quizzes over the major course units, and take a final exam.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/46612/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2015
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (11038)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1001+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce Cultural Studies as a critical, theoretical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary way to come to understand our world and our place in it. You will be working simultaneously in three dimensions: reading culture, theorizing culture, and changing culture. As part of this work, you will gather data from people and groups you observe, from the media, from your life, and from your own work as scholars. You will also work on developing theories about culture, to where you can start seeing connections, patterns, and a logic that governs how culture works in different situations. Finally, you will figure out how to spur cultural change, taking your critical cultural analysis and doing something with it, to put it to work changing culture toward the better.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/11038/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 January 2014
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (46427)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce Cultural Studies as a critical, theoretical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary way to come to understand our world and our place in it. You will be working simultaneously in three dimensions: reading culture, theorizing culture, and changing culture. As part of this work, you will gather data from people and groups you observe, from the media, from your life, and from your own work as scholars. You will also work on developing theories about culture, to where you can start seeing connections, patterns, and a logic that governs how culture works in different situations. Finally, you will figure out how to spur cultural change, taking your critical cultural analysis and doing something with it, to put it to work changing culture toward the better.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/46427/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 January 2014
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (11128)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankFraser Hall 102
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce Cultural Studies as a critical, theoretical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary way to come to understand our world and our place in it. You will be working simultaneously in three dimensions: reading culture, theorizing culture, and changing culture. As part of this work, you will gather data from people and groups you observe, from the media, from your life, and from your own work as scholars. You will also work on developing theories about culture, to where you can start seeing connections, patterns, and a logic that governs how culture works in different situations. Finally, you will figure out how to spur cultural change, taking your critical cultural analysis and doing something with it, to put it to work changing culture toward the better.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/11128/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 January 2014
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (51129)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- This course will introduce Cultural Studies as a critical, theoretical, interpretive, and interdisciplinary way to come to understand our world and our place in it. You will be working simultaneously in three dimensions: reading culture, theorizing culture, and changing culture. As part of this work, you will gather data from people and groups you observe, from the media, from your life, and from your own work as scholars. You will also work on developing theories about culture, to where you can start seeing connections, patterns, and a logic that governs how culture works in different situations. Finally, you will figure out how to spur cultural change, taking your critical cultural analysis and doing something with it, to put it to work changing culture toward the better.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51129/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 January 2014
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (16792)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankBell Museum Of Natural History 100
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- How did we become who we are? How did we become "women" or "men," 'gay' or 'straight?' Where did we get our tastes in clothes, food, music, and decorative arts? And where did we get our political, religious and philosophical beliefs, our sense of what's logical, natural, and believable? Cultural Studies assumes that the world around us (our culture) means, and that its meanings are central in creating us--individually and collectively. And it assumes culture can be "read." CSCL 1001 explores cultural reading, examining the "texts" around us: music videos, television and film, some paintings and photographs, magazine ads, poetry, a graphic novel, science and science journalism, and some "practices" from everyday life: dress, manners and body decoration. The "rhetoric" of culture transmits a view of the world and our loyalty to that view. Its systems of "power" fold us and our texts into large, historical conversations and struggles over ideas and social positions. And the operations of "desire" direct who and what we love, where we find pleasure and how these pleasures figure in the process of making and reproducing culture. It's a basic course for majors and non-majors interested in making sense of their worlds.
- Grading:
- 15% Final Exam
30% Special Projects
20% Journal
15% Class Participation
20% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Many engaging, short, blog-based and group activities throughout the course. Do what we tell you, and you'll do just fine. - Exam Format:
- open-book; short, guided answers
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
20% Web Based Active-learning class with participation figuring largely in grade. On-line community / blog activity throughout course. - Workload:
- 60 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
1 Presentation(s)
3 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Blog and other interactive media work constitutes the majority of the written production. Group project as capstone. While not 'writing-intensive,' the course requires fluency in speaking, reading and writing in English. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16792/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 September 2013
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1001 Section 001: Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire (46086)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery MediumFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 155
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways of reading texts, artistic forms, everyday practices that define ongoing conflicts over meaning, value, truth. Examples from visual arts, music, film, literature, myth, ritual, built environment.
- Class Description:
- How did we become who we are? How did we become "women" or "men," 'gay' or 'straight?' Where did we get our tastes in clothes, food, music, and decorative arts? And where did we get our political, religious and philosophical beliefs, our sense of what's logical, natural, and believable? Cultural Studies assumes that the world around us (our culture) means, and that its meanings are central in creating us--individually and collectively. And it assumes culture can be "read." CSCL 1001 explores cultural reading, examining the "texts" around us: music videos, television and film, some paintings and photographs, magazine ads, poetry, a graphic novel, science and science journalism, and some "practices" from everyday life: dress, manners and body decoration. The "rhetoric" of culture transmits a view of the world and our loyalty to that view. Its systems of "power" fold us and our texts into large, historical conversations and struggles over ideas and social positions. And the operations of "desire" direct who and what we love, where we find pleasure and how these pleasures figure in the process of making and reproducing culture. It's a basic course for majors and non-majors interested in making sense of their worlds.
- Grading:
- 15% Final Exam
30% Special Projects
20% Journal
15% Class Participation
20% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Many engaging, short, blog-based and group activities throughout the course. Do what we tell you, and you'll do just fine. - Exam Format:
- open-book; short, guided answers
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
20% Web Based Active-learning class with participation figuring largely in grade. On-line community / blog activity throughout course. - Workload:
- 60 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
1 Presentation(s)
3 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Blog and other interactive media work constitutes the majority of the written production. Group project as capstone. While not 'writing-intensive,' the course requires fluency in reading and writing in English. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/46086/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2012
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