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Spring 2025 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (52864)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52864/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2025 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54903)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54903/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2025 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54904)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Wed, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54904/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2025 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54438)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54438/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2025 | CSCL 1301W Section 005: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54528)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54528/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (18839)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 138
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18839/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (18840)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPeik Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (3 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18840/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (20544)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Wed, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 138
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20544/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (20545)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Mode
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (2 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20545/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 005: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (21294)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 134
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21294/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (53236)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Wed 11:15AM - 01:45PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53236/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66335)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66335/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66336)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankSmith Hall 121
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66336/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (55212)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankScott Hall 4
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55212/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2024 | CSCL 1301W Section 005: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (55430)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 139
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55430/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19255)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 420A
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19255/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19256)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 123
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19256/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (21538)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Wed, Fri 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21538/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (21539)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21539/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 005: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (34189)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankWulling Hall 220
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34189/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (53647)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankBurton Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53647/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (53648)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53648/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (53652)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Mode
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53652/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66476)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66476/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2023 | CSCL 1301W Section 005: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (68028)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankWulling Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68028/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19891)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19891/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19892)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 144
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19892/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (34184)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankFord Hall B10
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34184/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (34185)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon 11:15AM - 01:45PMUMTC, East BankHubert H Humphrey Center 184
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34185/1229
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54653)
- 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 Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54653/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54654)
- 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 Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankBurton Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54654/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2022 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54659)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54659/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2021 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (21320)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- This course engages in readings of culture, i.e. the interpretation and analysis of various things, materials, products, forms, and contexts in which culture is produced, consumed, and understood. "Theory" in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about culture and conceptualizing culture; "Practice" refers to the modes of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how culture is imagined, produced, and understood. For this reason, the course is not an arts appreciation course, or a survey of any particular period, form, or genre of culture, nor a study of specific ethnic, national, or cultural groups. Instead, the course is focused on a series of cultural practices: seeing (on art and visual culture), reading (on language and literature), listening (on sound and music), playing (on sports and games), eating (on taste and food), "surfing" (on the internet and new media), and remembering (on history and the past). We will learn to theorize these practices by reading a number of canonical texts in criticism, cultural studies, and its related fields. Readings include Theodor Adorno, bell hooks, John Berger, Susan Sontag, W.J.T. Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, Raymond Williams, Jonathan Sterne, Franz Fanon, Roland Barthes, C.L.R. James, Margaret Mead, Lev Manovich, Paul Connerton, Svetlana Boym, and more. We will pair these classic readings with our own analyses of timely case studies.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone interested in the critical, interdisciplinary, and theoretical humanities; anyone interested in the study of word, image, and sound across various media and cultural practices. This is an introductory course to Cultural Studies and its related fields; no prerequisites and no prior knowledge is required. (This is not an art/culture appreciation class and you will not learn the specific form and history of a particular genre or period; the readings and the essay(s) you will be required to write are critical, analytical, academic papers.)
- Learning Objectives:
- CSCL 1301W fulfils the Liberal Education Core requirement in Arts and Humanities: Works in Humanistic Studies reflect on the common and familiar human condition - our human limitations and unique failures together with our distinctive human capacities and achievements. In this course we examine works that invite or compel critical thought. Reflection on such works will enrich students' lives and make them more thoughtful and perceptive members of our communities. Courses in the Arts explore the ways in which art derives its value from various histories and perspectives, means and methods. Among the specific traits fostered in the course are thoughtful analysis, flexibility, experimentation, and ingenuity in problem solving and making use of complex concepts. These courses are designed to initiate a lasting connection to the arts for students as creators, viewers, listeners, or participants.Student Learning Outcomes:- Can locate and critically evaluate information: Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of cultural meaning as a philosophical, political, and social problem. Students will be able to identify and critically evaluate culture, art, media, and theories about these things through reading and analysis. They will hone their skills through discussion, presentation, and writing.- Understand diverse philosophies and cultures within and across societies: Students will be exposed to a variety of theories, philosophical writings on culture. The course is fundamentally comparative and seeks to make students draw connections across different periods, areas, cultures, and genres.- Have mastered a body of knowledge and a mode of inquiry: Building upon a set of readings of canonical texts the students are introduced to the field of cultural studies and build a sense of the variety of approaches of "reading" culture this interdisciplinary field is characterized by. Through discussion leading, in-class presentations, and writing exercises the students learn to ask questions and carry out analyses framed by the language, methods, and theories of cultural studies.
- Grading:
Class participation (15%): Participation in class discussions and one in-class presentation/discussion-lead.
In-class final (10%).Written assignment(s) (75%). There are two options:
1.) 4 response essays. 3 - 4 page essays asking you to respond to questions and problems raised in class and readings. Focus in these assignments is on your close reading and analysis skills and on your ability to define concepts, use terminology from the readings, and analyze and interpret culture in response to the texts we have read in class. (Due in weeks 3, 7, 11, 15; one revision).2) Final research project. 12 - 15
page essay on a topic of your choosing. While you may draw on the material from the course you will need to do reading and research on your own. Focus in this assignment is on your ability to design and carry out individual research and use it to write an academic paper. You may first hand in a full draft of the paper and then be able to correct errors and elaborate from my comments before handing in the final version. (Draft due in week 13, revision due in finals week.)- Class Format:
- Class will alternate between lecturing and class discussion, plus sometimes group work. Lectures and discussions will always have the assigned readings and examples as their starting point, but we will aim to find connections between the different texts, examples, and perspectives that broaden our understanding of the topics even more. Therefore, you must not only read the texts closely, but also reflect upon them; and class participation does not just mean that you are in attendance, but that you take part in class discussion. Reading, as suggested in the title, is essential for this course. If you have not read the assigned readings you will not be able to profit from my lectures and our discussions.
- Workload:
- Readings are generally short, but somewhat difficult. Plan on using a couple of hours prepping for each class session. As this is a writing intensive course plan on using a substantial amount of time crafting your essay(s).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21320/1219
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/vadxx003_CSCL1301W_Fall2018.docx (Fall 2018)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 May 2018
Fall 2021 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (21321)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 31
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21321/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2021 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (50646)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50646/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2020
Spring 2021 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (50647)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery ModeOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (18 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussionCOURSE TITLE: Interrogating the space of the classroom
Cultural Studies teaches us to question and criticize the normal and the familiar in their micro operations, in their taken for granted status and in their common sense. For example, if certain practices come to characterize and determine the lives of large number of individuals, the discipline of Cultural Studies help us question this taken for grantedness of the particular practice by drawing our attention to the historical origins, the politics and their meanings and how these practices constitute the individuals in question. By taking a step back, it draws our attention to the way an individual is always living, working and interacting with other individuals in a society. It foregrounds the way these social interactions are never simple and peaceful but diverse and conflicted and are mediated by the spaces we occupy and the subject positions we embody. It helps us engage with the ideas and ideologies behind certain practices through its method of analysis of a diverse range of texts that can include a novel, a film, an advertisement or a simple conversation between two people in a shared space.
Using the tools of Cultural Studies, we will focus on one of the most normal and accepted aspects of our everyday life, that of the classroom. In this course, we will ask the following questions:
Why do we say that everybody needs education? Why do people say that going to a specific school or college determine our characters, our lives, our worldview? What are the implications of these assumptions?
Why are some people excluded from these spaces? What are the conditions that lead to such exclusions? Additionally, what are the conditions that determine inclusions of people?
Why are some departments considered critical and too liberal? Is there a connection between the critic and the classroom? What the hell is a critic!
Why and when do university spaces become places of conflict and battles, antagonism and death, leading to the posting of cops and arrest of students?
Why are young people so invested in these spaces? Can these spaces offer hope, shelter and relief from oppression and exploitation? If yes, how does it happen?
How and when does the classroom fail to deliver its promise?
Our readings, comprising novels, films, autobiographies, histories and theories will work towards the formulation of these questions. Not reading the texts as isolated pieces of art, we will read them as particular interpretations and interventions in understanding and sometimes creating what we understand by classroom. While we will focus on particular styles, language or forms of a novel or a film, we will use them primarily as examples or instance for understanding the above mentioned questions or themes. We work with the assumption that texts and the world interact with each other, co-constitute each other and co-construct each other. Over the course of the semester we will familiarize ourselves with the concepts of "subject", "ideology", "critic", "exclusion", "subversion", "healing", "experience", "responsibility" and "pedagogy". However, the concepts will never be understood in an abstract way but always in relation to specific historical and sociological contexts. Hence, we will have to build these concepts as we read the different texts as opposed to using them as products.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- If you are interested in the following questions, do consider taking the course1) What is a classroom? What is its relationship with power, history, identity?2) How does race, gender, class and colonialism construct the classroom?3) Can classrooms be potential sites of resistance against power?4) Is is possible to separate desire, friendship, love and bonding from the classroom?5) What is the relationship between the classroom and the neo-liberal university?
- Workload:
Weekly posts: ten percent.
First paper: twenty five percent.
Class Reports: twenty-five percent.
Final paper: Thirty Five percent
Class participation: five percent.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50647/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 November 2020
Spring 2021 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (50652)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Mode
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Spring2021
- Class Description:
This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, structures of power and modes of belief. and that produce effects-- anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). With a special focus on 20th and 21st century popular culture, this course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; (2) the way popular and mass culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being and (3) how discursive formations like race, gender, and class are created, maintained, and challenged in popular culture (and vice versa). Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is, how it works, and why it matters. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Required materials: course reader from Paradigm course resources. Will be available December/January.- Learning Objectives:
By the end of the semester, you will have:
Developed the tools to read and interpret a cultural text.
Learned how to perform a close reading of a text.
Learned how to engage critically with a text in discussion.
Fulfilled the University of Minnesota's Writing Intensive Course and Liberal Education requirements.
- Grading:
15% Participation
10% Discussion posts
10% Short quizzes
10% Critical meme project
15% Object Analysis paper
20% Midterm Paper
20% Final Paper
- Exam Format:
- Final paper.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion. Asynchronous and synchronous meetings.
- Workload:
- 20 to 40 pages of reading per week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50652/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 December 2020
Fall 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16031)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
Conspiracy theories comprise a ubiquitous cultural discourse, paradigmatic of the post-truth milieu of the 21st century. Avril Lavigne was replaced by a clone. 9/11 was an inside job. Delaware doesn't exist. The conspiracy theory offers a plausible enough account for otherwise inexplicable phenomena: but they don't have to be proven true to become popular, they just have to be proven reasonably not-false. This course will examine conspiracy theory as a means for the emergence and distribution of contested cultural knowledges. What qualifies as a conspiracy theory? What marks a conspiracy theory as different from gossip, rumor, secret, or myth? We will analyze conspiracy theory as a vehicle for the dissemination of "truth" - assuming that these truths are really "out there" - tracing the conspiratorial through the political, the social, and the economic as a powerful instrument of influence. Specifically, we will unpack the formal elements of the conspiracy theory - its resistance to falsification, circular reasoning, and so on - in order to develop critical reading and visual analysis skills that will help us assess information presented to us as true. Given the Latin etymon conspirare - "to work secretly towards a goal" - we will consider what motivates conspiracy theorists and what ends they might serve. How do conspiracy theories disrupt or subvert accepted knowledge about society? And who benefits from such a disruption? We will also use the conspiracy theory to frame our understanding of culture in the post-truth world, where it appears that truth has been displaced, delayed, and is always subject to denial. Beyond that, the conspiracy theory will serve as a tool for personal reflection or excavation. What we take to be true and what we are convinced to - or want to - believe should be helpful in evaluating our own tendentious relationships with truth.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16031/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 18 June 2020
Fall 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16032)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16032/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16033)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16033/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54304)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54304/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54305)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (21 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54305/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2020 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54310)
- 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 Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54310/1203
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19490)
- 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 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19490/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19491)
- 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 - 12/11/2019Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankMechanical Engineering 221
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19491/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19492)
- 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 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (19 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19492/1199
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54539)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description:
Culture, the titular topic of this course, is a broad, fuzzy, and difficult to define concept. We might include such disparate elements as art, music, technology, food, tradition, religion, ideas, worldviews, behaviors, customs, stories, myths, and any other socially connective phenomena. While culture will be the subject of our course, we will not be trying to tackle the entirety of culture's existence or function. Instead, we will look at a particular structure to identify shifts in ideas, frameworks, and perspectives.
In this course we will focus specifically on the manifesto as a cultural form. The first question to ask is what is a manifesto? What marks a manifesto as different from an essay, a poem, or a strongly worded letter? In French manifeste (manifesto) is both a noun and verb; in other words, to write a manifesto is to bring that thing into existence (i.e. to "manifest" it). The manifesto, as a form, is a material act, an attempt to change or create.We will look at the manifesto as a uniquely modern form, tracing its history from the early modern period to the present day. How do these texts attempt to bring something new into existence and how can we connect them to the modernist impulse? How can we use a study of this deliberately incisive medium to identify ideological change? We will use the manifesto to frame our understanding of modernism and postmodernism, and the difference between them. Our course will place particular emphasis on arts manifestos, putting such texts in conversation with the artistic output of their authors.
If our preliminary hypothesis is correct - - that through studying the manifesto we may come to understand something essential about culture in modernity - - then this form will be an excellent tool for tying together the various artifacts that make up the nebulous mass of Culture with a capital C. But beyond that, the manifesto will also serve as a tool for personal reflection or excavation - - the sharp edges of the manifesto (its polemical and provocative aspects) should be useful in uncovering our own core values. Each of you will finish the course by writing your own manifesto.
- Learning Objectives:
We will leave this semester together with a better understanding of the manifesto as a historically specific form. We will also work to understand the slippery conceptual difference between modernism and postmodernism, within an artistic, political, and epistemological context. I hope we will also leave this course with a better understanding of our own politics and values and how they relate to a variety of movements, both artistic and political.
- Grading:
What is a Grade?
A Exceptional work, creative, original, and well-written
B Good work, exceeds course requirements
C Meets course requirements in every respectD Worthy of some credit, but missing significant aspectsS Satisfactory work (No lower than C-)F Work does not fulfill the requirements of the course- Exam Format:
- Your Grade:
20% Attendance and Participation
10% Group Presentation 15% Midterm Essay Test
15% Aesthetic Analysis
5% Manifesto Proposal/Workshop
5% Manifesto Draft
25% Final Manifesto
5% Artist Statement
- Class Format:
- This is a discussion-based class. Arrive in class on time and ready to discuss the assigned reading for the day. Take notes while you read and bring them to class. While many class sessions will begin with short lectures, your participation in discussion is essential - - otherwise we will all find this to be a tedious exercise.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54539/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 May 2018
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54540)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54540/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2019 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54545)
- 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 Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: Zosha Winegar-Schultz.
This course is grounded in the idea that we are all immersed in cultures that we use and enjoy, but that also influence our ideas about gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and class. Historically, such cultural constructions have also served to divide individuals, nations, and regions. Such divisions are at the core of this class, which examines how culture is and has been theorized. This class will take that into consideration, examining how culture is considered, constructed, and then practiced in the experiment of the Soviet Union, with the understanding that rhetoric surrounding the Soviet Union has long been shaped by the West's ideological opposition to its tenets, resulting in its exclusion from popular discourse.
Our study of cultural objects and projects includes films, novels, historical documents, magazines, television, clothing, and foods, although it is certainly not limited to these things. Over the course of the semester, we will investigate (1) the role played and work done by cultural objects in creating and maintaining a Soviet culture and (2) why the Soviet Union had a vested interest in theorizing, constructing, and practicing a unique, entirely new culture. This approach is meant to be interdisciplinary, using multiple access points to provide a foundational understanding of the discipline of cultural studies.
- Learning Objectives:
By the end of the semester, you will have:
Developed the tools to read and interpret a cultural text.
Learned how to perform a close reading of a text.
Learned how to engage critically with a text in discussion.
Fulfilled the University of Minnesota's Writing Intensive Course and Liberal Education requirements.
- Grading:
- 20% Participation20% Group Presentation20% Object Analysis Project20% Midterm Paper20% Draft and Final Paper
- Exam Format:
- Final paper.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion.
- Workload:
- 20 to 40 pages of reading per week.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54545/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 November 2018
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19850)
- 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 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description:
Culture, the titular topic of this course, is a broad, fuzzy, and difficult to define concept. We might include such disparate elements as art, music, technology, food, tradition, religion, ideas, worldviews, behaviors, customs, stories, myths, and any other socially connective phenomena. While culture will be the subject of our course, we will not be trying to tackle the entirety of culture's existence or function. Instead, we will look at a particular structure to identify shifts in ideas, frameworks, and perspectives.
In this course we will focus specifically on the manifesto as a cultural form. The first question to ask is what is a manifesto? What marks a manifesto as different from an essay, a poem, or a strongly worded letter? In French manifeste (manifesto) is both a noun and verb; in other words, to write a manifesto is to bring that thing into existence (i.e. to "manifest" it). The manifesto, as a form, is a material act, an attempt to change or create.We will look at the manifesto as a uniquely modern form, tracing its history from the early modern period to the present day. How do these texts attempt to bring something new into existence and how can we connect them to the modernist impulse? How can we use a study of this deliberately incisive medium to identify ideological change? We will use the manifesto to frame our understanding of modernism and postmodernism, and the difference between them. Our course will place particular emphasis on arts manifestos, putting such texts in conversation with the artistic output of their authors.
If our preliminary hypothesis is correct - - that through studying the manifesto we may come to understand something essential about culture in modernity - - then this form will be an excellent tool for tying together the various artifacts that make up the nebulous mass of Culture with a capital C. But beyond that, the manifesto will also serve as a tool for personal reflection or excavation - - the sharp edges of the manifesto (its polemical and provocative aspects) should be useful in uncovering our own core values. Each of you will finish the course by writing your own manifesto.
- Learning Objectives:
We will leave this semester together with a better understanding of the manifesto as a historically specific form. We will also work to understand the slippery conceptual difference between modernism and postmodernism, within an artistic, political, and epistemological context. I hope we will also leave this course with a better understanding of our own politics and values and how they relate to a variety of movements, both artistic and political.
- Grading:
What is a Grade?
A Exceptional work, creative, original, and well-written
B Good work, exceeds course requirements
C Meets course requirements in every respectD Worthy of some credit, but missing significant aspectsS Satisfactory work (No lower than C-)F Work does not fulfill the requirements of the course- Exam Format:
- Your Grade:
20% Attendance and Participation
10% Group Presentation 15% Midterm Essay Test
15% Aesthetic Analysis
5% Manifesto Proposal/Workshop
5% Manifesto Draft
25% Final Manifesto
5% Artist Statement
- Class Format:
- This is a discussion-based class. Arrive in class on time and ready to discuss the assigned reading for the day. Take notes while you read and bring them to class. While many class sessions will begin with short lectures, your participation in discussion is essential - - otherwise we will all find this to be a tedious exercise.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19850/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 May 2018
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19851)
- 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, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 31
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19851/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (19852)
- 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 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
- This course engages in readings of culture, i.e. the interpretation and analysis of various things, materials, products, forms, and contexts in which culture is produced, consumed, and understood. "Theory" in the title of this course refers to the various ways of thinking about culture and conceptualizing culture; "Practice" refers to the modes of reading and writing critically about these concepts and theories in order to analyse how culture is imagined, produced, and understood. For this reason, the course is not an arts appreciation course, or a survey of any particular period, form, or genre of culture, nor a study of specific ethnic, national, or cultural groups. Instead, the course is focused on a series of cultural practices: seeing (on art and visual culture), reading (on language and literature), listening (on sound and music), playing (on sports and games), eating (on taste and food), "surfing" (on the internet and new media), and remembering (on history and the past). We will learn to theorize these practices by reading a number of canonical texts in criticism, cultural studies, and its related fields. Readings include Theodor Adorno, bell hooks, John Berger, Susan Sontag, W.J.T. Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, Raymond Williams, Jonathan Sterne, Franz Fanon, Roland Barthes, C.L.R. James, Margaret Mead, Lev Manovich, Paul Connerton, Svetlana Boym, and more. We will pair these classic readings with our own analyses of timely case studies.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone interested in the critical, interdisciplinary, and theoretical humanities; anyone interested in the study of word, image, and sound across various media and cultural practices. This is an introductory course to Cultural Studies and its related fields; no prerequisites and no prior knowledge is required. (This is not an art/culture appreciation class and you will not learn the specific form and history of a particular genre or period; the readings and the essay(s) you will be required to write are critical, analytical, academic papers.)
- Learning Objectives:
- CSCL 1301W fulfils the Liberal Education Core requirement in Arts and Humanities: Works in Humanistic Studies reflect on the common and familiar human condition - our human limitations and unique failures together with our distinctive human capacities and achievements. In this course we examine works that invite or compel critical thought. Reflection on such works will enrich students' lives and make them more thoughtful and perceptive members of our communities. Courses in the Arts explore the ways in which art derives its value from various histories and perspectives, means and methods. Among the specific traits fostered in the course are thoughtful analysis, flexibility, experimentation, and ingenuity in problem solving and making use of complex concepts. These courses are designed to initiate a lasting connection to the arts for students as creators, viewers, listeners, or participants.Student Learning Outcomes:- Can locate and critically evaluate information: Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of cultural meaning as a philosophical, political, and social problem. Students will be able to identify and critically evaluate culture, art, media, and theories about these things through reading and analysis. They will hone their skills through discussion, presentation, and writing.- Understand diverse philosophies and cultures within and across societies: Students will be exposed to a variety of theories, philosophical writings on culture. The course is fundamentally comparative and seeks to make students draw connections across different periods, areas, cultures, and genres.- Have mastered a body of knowledge and a mode of inquiry: Building upon a set of readings of canonical texts the students are introduced to the field of cultural studies and build a sense of the variety of approaches of "reading" culture this interdisciplinary field is characterized by. Through discussion leading, in-class presentations, and writing exercises the students learn to ask questions and carry out analyses framed by the language, methods, and theories of cultural studies.
- Grading:
Class participation (15%): Participation in class discussions and one in-class presentation/discussion-lead.
In-class final (10%).Written assignment(s) (75%). There are two options:
1.) 4 response essays. 3 - 4 page essays asking you to respond to questions and problems raised in class and readings. Focus in these assignments is on your close reading and analysis skills and on your ability to define concepts, use terminology from the readings, and analyze and interpret culture in response to the texts we have read in class. (Due in weeks 3, 7, 11, 15; one revision).2) Final research project. 12 - 15
page essay on a topic of your choosing. While you may draw on the material from the course you will need to do reading and research on your own. Focus in this assignment is on your ability to design and carry out individual research and use it to write an academic paper. You may first hand in a full draft of the paper and then be able to correct errors and elaborate from my comments before handing in the final version. (Draft due in week 13, revision due in finals week.)- Class Format:
- Class will alternate between lecturing and class discussion, plus sometimes group work. Lectures and discussions will always have the assigned readings and examples as their starting point, but we will aim to find connections between the different texts, examples, and perspectives that broaden our understanding of the topics even more. Therefore, you must not only read the texts closely, but also reflect upon them; and class participation does not just mean that you are in attendance, but that you take part in class discussion. Reading, as suggested in the title, is essential for this course. If you have not read the assigned readings you will not be able to profit from my lectures and our discussions.
- Workload:
- Readings are generally short, but somewhat difficult. Plan on using a couple of hours prepping for each class session. As this is a writing intensive course plan on using a substantial amount of time crafting your essay(s).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19852/1189
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/vadxx003_CSCL1301W_Fall2018.docx
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 May 2018
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (51394)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 136
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51394/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (51395)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 02/18/2018Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 15102/19/2018 - 02/23/2018Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankKolthoff Hall 13902/24/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankFord Hall 151
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51395/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2018 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (51400)
- 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 Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 215
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: Emily Fedoruk "Culture on Sale"
Our course will ask us to think critically, and incessantly, about our own social and cultural interactions - in particular, our inescapable roles as economic subjects. In our time together, we will seek out shopping practices that are foreign, familiar, or draw us into economic relations we have yet to consider. At times,our task will be to ‘make strange'the familiar by responsibly imagining those behaviors that have become nearly involuntary at this stage of late capitalism: credit card swipes, crumpling up receipts, and adding products and services to an army of electronic "shopping carts" online - in the last case, an activity each of us has carried out to just to register for this course. Our objective will be to gain a sense of empowerment in understanding our economic lives, but not in the methods that are offered to us most frequently by those who hold the most financial power. Instead, we will work to become critics of shopping culture, even as we continue to participate. - Who Should Take This Class?:
- Exam Format:
- No exams.
- Class Format:
- To investigate consumption from the perspective of cultural studies, we will begin by interrogating the commodity as itself a symbol of our social relations, extending this symbolism into our own reading practices. We will look at how connections emerge between formal as well as representational elements of each text, such as vocabulary, character, and rhythm, in tandem with politics of pop culture, consumption, globalization, racism, sexism, incarceration, gentrification, and class conflict. In each reading, we will seek opportunities to challenge or resist the political circumstances at hand, and engage our own parts in power struggles that begin on the page but are enlivened by our own discussions, activities, and writing.
- Workload:
- Group presentation; essay; essay revision; final paper or project.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51400/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 November 2017
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16929)
- 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 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 117
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1301W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice, 3 credits, meets Lib Ed Req. of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed Req. of Writing Intensive Instructor. STAFF Description: This course will critically interrogate what has come to be often identified as the hierarchical arrangement of ‘western' - that is, primarily (but not only) North American and European - cultural production. Over the course of this seminar, we will familiarize ourselves with a number of basic concepts and methods in sociology and cultural studies to facilitate our discussion of and approaches to the complicated relationship between society, culture, politics, taste, style, etiquette, boredom and subjectivity. We will spend most of our time at the margins of cultural production to meet different kinds of rebel, outcast and misfit groups and discuss how their disbelonging, at times, translates into a powerful iconography across the broad landscape of mass-marketed culture. We will examine the different ways in which media, genres, events and activities serve as focal points for the emergence of subcultural movements but also ask how different dispositions such as dis/ability, class, race, gender and sexual orientation serve as avenues into (sub)cultural identity. Furthermore, we will venture outside of our own comfort zones to broaden our understanding of and means of appreciating different cultural formations, and inquire the status of subcultures as ‘secret societies' of shared interests. Finally, we will treat cultural hierarchy as a historically unstable category that has changed in the past and will forever continue to change.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This course is open to undergraduate majors and non-majors; there are no prerequisites.
- Learning Objectives:
- To understand what cultural hierarchy is, how it operates, how it emerges, how it is resisted. To see cultural movements as embedded within a wide socio-political context. To read media texts critically, with awareness of their social/cultural/historical contingency. To learn and practice interesting, meaningful and confident writing.
- Class Format:
- Lecture, Discussion, Group Work, Film Screenings, Close Reading
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16929/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 April 2017
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16930)
- 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, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAppleby Hall 226
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fedo0049+CSCL1301W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16930/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (16931)
- 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 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankPeik Hall 375
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sanni010+CSCL1301W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16931/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (52128)
- 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 Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52128/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (52129)
- 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 Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52129/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2017 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (52134)
- 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 Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52134/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (17417)
- 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 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 335
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?wilde229+CSCL1301W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17417/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (17418)
- 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 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fedo0049+CSCL1301W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17418/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (17419)
- 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 145
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?sanni010+CSCL1301W+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17419/1169
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (58487)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?baner070+CSCL1301W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive
This course turns on one central question: What is culture? Culture, as we shall explore in this course, is the agency of inner life. And at the same time, it signifies a whole way of life. Culture is something that is held in common - defining and uniting us as a group, as a nation and so on. Culture is also something that divides - separating one set of people from the others. Owing to its very complexity as a concept, culture is the object of study across disciplines. In this course we shall attempt to bring some of these into conversation. We shall read poets, literary critics, sociologists, economists and political theorists. We shall watch and discuss films, music videos, TV shows. We shall read cultural texts in their historical contexts. At the same time, our task will be to relate these texts to our own contexts. Texts that we will read and discuss in this class include poems, paintings, and other traditional forms of culture.
- Grading:
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58487/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2015
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (58488)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?azod0001+CSCL1301W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58488/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2016 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (58493)
- 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 Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?puli0005+CSCL1301W+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58493/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (23785)
- 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 - 12/16/2015Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?renwick+CSCL1301W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23785/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (23790)
- 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 - 12/16/2015Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?camb0014+CSCL1301W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23790/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (23791)
- 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 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?gyeng002+CSCL1301W+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23791/1159
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (59948)
- 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 Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59948/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (59949)
- 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 Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59949/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2015 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (59954)
- 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 Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59954/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (25751)
- 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 Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25751/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (25757)
- 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 - 12/10/2014Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25757/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (25758)
- 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 - 12/10/2014Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 120
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25758/1149
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66815)
- 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 Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66815/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66816)
- 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 Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66816/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2014 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (66822)
- 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 Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 355
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66822/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (33874)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33874/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (33880)
- 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 - 12/11/2013Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33880/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Fall 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (33881)
- 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 - 12/11/2013Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 315
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33881/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 001: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (46087)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- 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 Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 31
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/46087/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 002: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (54323)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- 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 Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 345
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54323/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 003: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (59456)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- 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 Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankFolwell Hall 112
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59456/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
Spring 2013 | CSCL 1301W Section 004: Reading Culture: Theory and Practice (59457)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Seminar
- 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 Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 115
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Culture and cultural conflict. Reading cultural theory/texts such as film, literature, music, fashion, commercial art, and built environment.
- Class Description:
- CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice 4 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Other Humanities Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: This course turns on one central question: How do things 'mean?' Specifically, how do cultural texts mean in relation to each other and to human life in society and across history? 'Cultural texts' are made objects and forms of communication that encode messages and values, and that produce effects--anything from movies, TV shows, magazine ads and rock concerts to 'high art' (paintings, classical music, plays, poems, etc.). The course specifically examines: (1) the role played by cultural forms in creating, maintaining or challenging social boundaries and power relationships; and (2) the ways art and culture function as sites where creative and alternative visions of 'the good life' come into being. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it's a good place to start thinking about what "culture" is and how it works. It will also help you develop reading and writing techniques useful for many courses and majors. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59457/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 November 2007
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