CRTSD-1500-6: FiCS: Values in Action: Collective Narratives (Disc.)
Fall 2020
- Subject: Critical Studies
- Type: Discussion
- Delivery Mode: Online
- Level: Undergraduate
- Course Dates: September 02, 2020 — December 15, 2020
- Meetings: Wed 12:00-01:30PM
- Instructor: Ann Skartvedt
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 13/16
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Ann Skartvedt
Description:
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.
This course is an opportunity to think through how to put our values into action as artists, designers, critical thinkers, and activists by recognizing our roles in interpreting, circulating, creating, and revising collective cultural narratives. We will explore these key questions: Whose story is being told? How are these stories being told and by whom? Whose stories are being excluded? And how might we change these stories to reflect our own values and lives? The course is structured around three units which examine the ways in which collective—often competing—cultural narratives are formed, reproduced or contested, and circulated. Each unit will unfold differing stories, inviting us to investigate how, as artists, activists, visitors, or bystanders, we make meaning within these narratives. The course will grapple with stories we choose to amplify, take up, or contend with in this current moment, as well as what agency we might have to affect their trajectories.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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