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Spring 2012
May 02,2024 |
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| LIBS 633 - POLITICS OF CULTURE |
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This seminar course will begin by interrogating the models of "culture" deployed in social science and literary criticism. We will consider difference, sameness, in the definition of boundaries (that is identities--cultural, ethnic, and national); uses of the past (history) and ideological interests; and the "invention of tradition." Using a broad definition of "politics" as claims to power, we will then examine practices of culture representation as political tools. Topics for discussion will include: the means of producing and/or constructing "culture;" issues of authority, voicing, and authenticity; definitions and appropriations of "cultural property" (by whom, for what ends); the co modification of "cultures" and their "consumption." Given the instructor's interests and research background, a section of the course will examine the idea of Africa in western discourse, the Afrocentricity movement, and contemporary debates on multiculturalism and cultural pluralism. In the final section of the course, students will research and present an analysis of a topic of their choice to the seminar (ideas: museum exhibitions, curriculum reform, the legal system and First Peoples, the production and control of media images) and submit a paper on their selected material at the end of the semester.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors: Liberal Studies Non-Degree-MALS |
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