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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 Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 117
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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 Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby 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 Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik 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

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