ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

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Spring 2017 | CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (50716)

Instructor(s): Thomas David
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 Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed, Fri 09:05AM - 09:55AM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 110

Course Catalog Description:: How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:: 'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:: 25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:: Essay
Class Format:: 25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:: 50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50716/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 1 July 2013

Spring 2017 | CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (52135)

Instructor(s): Brad Bellatti
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 Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Tue 06:20PM - 08:50PM

UMTC, East Bank

Kolthoff Hall 135

Course Catalog Description:: How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:: "The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:: 25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:: Essay
Class Format:: 25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:: 50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52135/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 4 September 2007

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