AIS 461

Fall 2009 All Classes

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Politics of Popular Culture

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Concerned with interdisciplinary frameworks that allow us to 'read' popular culture as well as with its actual forms and specific artifacts, this course seeks, first, to grasp how popular culture has legitimized the colonization of American Indian peoples and second, to reflect on the ways in which Indians engage popular culture to assert an anti-oppression politics.

Same as MS 461. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for both AIS 461 and MS 320 or MDIA 570. Prerequisite: Any 100 or 200-level American Indian Studies course or consent of the instructor.

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AIS 461 class schedule data for fall 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	53290	Lecture-Discussion	G1	4:00PM -6:20PM	R	33 Education Building	Clark, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Politics of Popular Culture Description: This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar is an introduction to "the basics" in contemporary theory and cultural studies. The course concentrates in particular on knowledge production and producing knowledge grounded in or associated with bureaucratic fields, social formations, postmodern spaces, new communications technologies, popular production or consumption in everything from children's literature to fan cultures, and commercial media. The central concern of the course is to develop the means necessary for students to identify and address a politics related to the "subject" when identification, interpellation, subjectivity, belonging, or location is practiced and/or figured locally or translocally, nationally or transnationally, and/or hemispherically or transhemispherically as "Indian." Supposes some degree of commitment to deal with the angst often experienced in interdisciplinary spaces and expects a willingness to use American Indian Studies as a rallying point for the class. In addition to finishing required readings before coming to class meetings each week, students should expect to complete a major paper in stages over the duration of the course and as a final project.
	53288	Lecture-Discussion	UG	4:00PM -6:20PM	R	33 Education Building	Clark, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Politics of Popular Culture Description: This advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar is an introduction to "the basics" in contemporary theory and cultural studies. The course concentrates in particular on knowledge production and producing knowledge grounded in or associated with bureaucratic fields, social formations, postmodern spaces, new communications technologies, popular production or consumption in everything from children's literature to fan cultures, and commercial media. The central concern of the course is to develop the means necessary for students to identify and address a politics related to the "subject" when identification, interpellation, subjectivity, belonging, or location is practiced and/or figured locally or translocally, nationally or transnationally, and/or hemispherically or transhemispherically as "Indian." Supposes some degree of commitment to deal with the angst often experienced in interdisciplinary spaces and expects a willingness to use American Indian Studies as a rallying point for the class. In addition to finishing required readings before coming to class meetings each week, students should expect to complete a major paper in stages over the duration of the course and as a final project.