GLOS 3143 is also offered in Fall 2023
GLOS 3143 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2023 | GLOS 3143 Section 001: Place, Community, Culture (33113)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Blegen Hall 225
- Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Students in the Global Studies program study not only the powerful political institutions and economic processes that shape our world, they also acquire the skills to perceive and investigate their own place and identities, and to interpret creative work that express different ways of being. In GLOS 3143 'Place, Community, Culture' students will explore their own locations, identities, and experiences in the context of our fraught and ethically complex times. The emphasis is on practice, on seeing one's own life as something to be enriched by seeing and feeling the world in new ways. Students will encounter a mix of philosophical works, artistic texts (novels, films, poetry, painting, music, and other forms of media) and scholarly texts that together will help students expand their ingrained and conditioned ways of seeing the world. Class themes might include self and other, community and alienation, place and placelessness, home and homelessness. Students will examine the place of ethics and politics in the negotiation of their identities and experiences. Assignments might include essays that ask students to interpret artistic works that present different avenues of insight, or creative assignments that ask you to reflect on your own experiences in relation to course readings and themes. Students will conclude the class more confident of their ability to notice and negotiate the dilemmas they will encounter in their personal and professional lives.
- Class Description:
- This course is a small, upper-level seminar that begins with a simple enough question: how do we experience, understand, and value place in the context of our present moment and its unprecedented access to the "global"? During the first half of the course, we will attend to just what "place" is, to the role it plays in the constitution of our lives. We will try to get our heads around the fact that it is impossible to think of a life - or of anything, really - that is not "in" a place. We will think about all the ways that place contributes to a sense of self and other, and how place inheres in our senses of belonging and connection. We will wonder, how and why do we come to value a place? We will attend to all the means by which we can describe place, in terms of psychological states, moral judgments, and objective, sensory facts. In the second half of the course, we will ask what it might mean to be attentive to the world as a collection or variety of places? Can we imagine what these places share? We will examine how the multiplication of technologies that allow travel and movement enable both the experience of new places, but also the alienation that inheres in homesickness, in the feeling of being "out of place." We will move across readings in literature, philosophy, geography and anthropology, and students will construct for themselves an accounting of place in their own lives. The spirit of the class is exploratory, speculative, and open; our goal is to come to a more profound and perceptive understanding of the many worlds we inhabit.
- Grading:
- 40% Journal
20% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
40% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: Writing will consist primarily of journaling and moodle posts.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33113/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2018
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2023 Global Studies Classes