Engineering
the Self in the Late Twentieth Century: This is the home page for
material developed and collected by the members of ENCR 481, an honors
undergraduate seminar in the English Department at the University of
Virginia.
Growing Up
American: This course will explore three important aspects of American
childhood and adolescence: adult perceptions of children and
teenagers, the experience of childhood and adolescence, and those features
of our culture which are created for children and teenagers, beginning
with conception and birth and finishing with adolescence. A portion of the
course will be devoted to cross-cultural comparisons and multicultural
aspects of American childhood.
Marriage
and Family Syllabus: Historical background of the family as a social
institution and analysis of marriage and family. Lecture 3 hours. No
Laboratory. Prerequisite: SOC 1113 or permission of instructor. Part of
database residing at the Kapiolani Community College Library, and was
created by Kapiolani librarians, who now maintain it. The project is
funded in part by the University of Hawaii - East West Center
Collaborative Research Program.
Popular
Culture in the 1960s: The purpose of this class is to explore the
ideas that were at the center of the sixties counter-culture to discover
their connections to the long history of such ideas in human experience.
Print, Literacy and
Power: To 1900: The course focuses on European Americans, Native
Americans, African Americans and, in the western United States, Asian
Americans and Chicano/Latinos. It explores the nature of oral and print
societies as found in the focus cultures and uses contemporary print
material to assess the impact of a controlling print culture on oral
cultures
Religious
Education (Short Course):
Candidates choose to study one religion from Buddhism, Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. The content of each religion is
grouped under the headings of Beliefs and Sources of Authority Practice
and Organization (worship, festivals, rites of passage etc.) The effect
of the named religion on individual and corporate moral behaviour,
attitudes and lifestyle (personal and community life, family
relationships, justice and equality, matters of life and death).
Social
Anthropology (University of Connecticut): This is an experiment in
developing Internet resources for the instruction of Anthropology at the
University of Connecticut. In the fall of 1994, Anth 220 became the first
class at the University of Connecticut to distribute course material over
the Internet.
Tourist Productions:
Taking a performance studies approach to tourism, broadly conceived, this
course will analyze specific sites and events, including museums,
festivals, historic recreations, and heritage precincts. The course is
divided into six parts: the tourism industry, its history, structure, and
discourses; primitivism, visuality, artifactuality, and the avant-garde;
public memory and the problem of heritage; performed theory in the
metamuseum; African tourisms of diaspora and empire; and abject
tourism.
Youth Music
and Culture: This course assumes that popular music provides not only
entertainment, but a cultural space for the personal, social, and
political experiences of youth. Focusing on rock and rap (with a nod to
pop and country), we'll consider the communicative roles of music and
musicians; the means by which music gets to its audiences; and the ways in
which music is interpreted and used by listeners in a variety of contexts.
As a feature of the course, we'll look at particular musical subcultures
in order to understand how particular social interests and tastes are
served by particular performers, songs, and performances.
