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Spring 2021  |  ANTH 3005W Section 001: Language, Culture, and Power (66275)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (89 of 100 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
The "English Only" movement in the U.S. has been attempting for years to have English recognized as the nation's official language; On a daily basis, people with non-standard accents are asked where they come from; Speakers of African American Vernacular English are derided for speaking ?broken English? even as white teenagers adopt AAVE in their daily talk... While language is a universal feature of human culture, and a vital resource for humans' ability to describe and relate to the world around them, language is also deeply political in nature. Language, Culture, and Power approaches language as a key aspect of human meaning-making, and argues that close attention to language-in-use provides us with insights into human experience and behavior, and enables us to address the politics of language. This course aims to bring students to recognize that the daily work involved in even the most mundane act of speaking among friends is deeply enmeshed in relationships of social power. The class highlights the centrality of daily talk in how humans go about making meaning about themselves, others, and the world around them, and thus highlights the role of ordinary daily talk in the maintenance and transformation of much larger social structures. The course aims at a practical level to train students in discourse analysis of transcripts, but simultaneously to look at how that analysis allows for a recognition of how daily social acts, such as speaking, arguing, joking, and gossiping are embedded in larger socio-political and cultural structures of meaning. Students will explore language-in-use both through class readings and a practical exercise, the taping and subsequent transcription of a stretch of conversation among intimates early in the semester. Transcripts will be developed and refined in small group settings during recitation periods, and students will work with one another to identify and analyze the discourse strategies, language ideologies, discourse features of each other's transcripts. This work will form the basis for class exercises and a final written paper, and will be a major task in the class. By focusing on the intersection of language and social power, this course aims to raise ethical questions about important challenges facing our world, how to reflect on the shared sense of responsibility we have as speakers and social actors to build and maintain community through talk, how to connect this knowledge with practice through your training in discourse analysis, and as such helping foster a stronger sense of your role -- and the role of other speakers -- as agents of change in day-to-day life. Above all, we will be concerned with the relationships of power that are deeply enmeshed in everyday language use, and consequently, the major themes of this class revolve around the politics of language and language ideologies.
Grading:
The points for each exercise (described below) add up to 100 points. Your points will be converted to a letter grade, using the University grading scale. Other than in-class exercises, all work is take-home.
Exam Format:
1. Transcription you will produce from a taped conversation (5%)

2. 10 in-class exercises worth 2% each (20%)
3. 10 "Question for Author" submissions, 1% each (10%)
4. 5 Transcription Work Groups participation and reports, 2% each (10%)
5. Midterm: Draft of your final paper, end of week 8 (25%)
6. Final: 6-8 page paper analyzing your transcript (30%)
Class Format:
60% Lecture;
5% Film/Video;
10% Discussion;
25% Small Group Activities
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66275/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
31 July 2015

Spring 2021  |  ANTH 3005W Section 002: Language, Culture, and Power (66276)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon 02:30PM - 03:20PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66276/1213

Spring 2021  |  ANTH 3005W Section 003: Language, Culture, and Power (66277)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Tue 01:25PM - 02:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66277/1213

Spring 2021  |  ANTH 3005W Section 004: Language, Culture, and Power (66278)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66278/1213

Spring 2021  |  ANTH 3005W Section 005: Language, Culture, and Power (66279)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Wed 02:30PM - 03:20PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Studying language as a social practice, students transcribe and analyze conversation they record themselves, and consider issues of identity and social power in daily talk.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66279/1213

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