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Fall 2018  |  CSCL 3351W Section 001: The Body and the Politics of Representation (17125)

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
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL3351W+Fall2018
Class Description:
In this course we will examine how ideas of the human body in literary, artistic, philosophical, scientific, and theoretical discourses influence and inform our understanding of the political world. We will approach the problem of the politics of the body by considering two basic lines of inquiry: the body as represented (in scientific, medical, anthropological, and philosophical discourse, artworks, and other cultural texts) and the material body as a site of political struggle. In our investigation of these two lines of inquiry, we will explore ideas related to the representation of human and nonhuman bodies. How do these modes of representation of individual bodies and populations become political, sites of acting and doing in the world? We will also consider processes of identification and objectification: how do artworks and performance pieces subvert dominant cultural and institutional norms while also engaging in discourses of identity construction? Contexts in which we will explore these issues are the laboring body under capitalism, colonialism, incarceration, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. Students will write essays that draw from class readings and will also develop an individual research topic. Readings include texts by René Descartes, Roderick Ferguson, Kathy Acker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Denise Ferreira da Silva, José Muñoz, Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, and others. We will also visit the exhibit, "The Contested Body" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/the-contested-body/).
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation
Class Format:
60% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations/Lecture
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17125/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 April 2018

Fall 2018  |  CSCL 3351W Section 002: The Body and the Politics of Representation (20052)

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
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Enrollment Status:
Open (30 of 48 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL3351W+Fall2018
Class Description:
In this course we will examine how ideas of the human body in literary, artistic, philosophical, scientific, and theoretical discourses influence and inform our understanding of the political world. We will approach the problem of the politics of the body by considering two basic lines of inquiry: the body as represented (in scientific, medical, anthropological, and philosophical discourse, artworks, and other cultural texts) and the material body as a site of political struggle. In our investigation of these two lines of inquiry, we will explore ideas related to the representation of human and nonhuman bodies. How do these modes of representation of individual bodies and populations become political, sites of acting and doing in the world? We will also consider processes of identification and objectification: how do artworks and performance pieces subvert dominant cultural and institutional norms while also engaging in discourses of identity construction? Contexts in which we will explore these issues are the laboring body under capitalism, colonialism, incarceration, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. Students will write essays that draw from class readings and will also develop an individual research topic. Readings include texts by René Descartes, Roderick Ferguson, Kathy Acker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Denise Ferreira da Silva, José Muñoz, Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, and others. We will also visit the exhibit, "The Contested Body" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/the-contested-body/).
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation
Class Format:
60% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations/Lecture
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20052/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 April 2018

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