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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
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