Foundations in Critical Studies introduces critical thinking skills essential to college-level work in the humanities and sciences. Students develop their critical capacities through close reading and active response to cultural texts and phenomena drawn from multiple disciplines and reflecting diverse perspectives on major themes or topics in contemporary life.Section Description:
Our bodies are us, but they are not only us, because they are also the medium of our interface with the larger world. Our experience of embodiment is always shaped in relationship to memory, experiences of intimacy, our senses and physical abilities, personal and cultural histories, institutional structures and policies, cultural norms, emotions and fantasies, fashion, and on and on. In this course, we will engage with creative practitioners, activists, theorists and cultural critics whose work explores the physical aspects of being human. With their help, we will raise and discuss questions about how people experience embodiment; how we negotiate our embodied interactions with others; and how those negotiations intersect with larger cultural configurations. We will pay special attention to creative practices that emerge from and elaborate on embodied experience.

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