Fall 2017  |  CSCL 5910 Section 001: Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature -- Sound Studies (35657)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3-4 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 31
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Class Description:
What is sound? And among the various ways of absorbing the world through the senses (reading, looking, watching, tasting, touching), what is unique to the actions of listening and hearing? Sound Studies is a fast developing interdisciplinary field that brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences who engage sound as an object of study. The new field is in part linked to the study of music, but its disciplinary linkages range widely. Anthropology, geography, sociology, languages and literatures, art history, philosophy, history, cinema and media studies, ethnic studies, psychology, and theater, dance, and performance studies all fall within the range of sound studies insofar as sound is taken to be a central object of concern. This course will provide advanced undergraduates and graduates students with a comprehensive introduction to this ongoing interdisciplinary area of international research. The syllabus is structured around Jonathan Sterne's recently published Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012) as well as the recently published book Keywords in Sound (Duke University Press, 2015). We will cover a diverse range of materials from philosophical chapters on sound and phenomenology, to cultural histories of gender and telephones, psychoanalytic theories of the voice, close critical analysis of the social diffusion of mobile media technologies, and cutting age approaches to music and sound art.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35657/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 November 2015

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