The Globe and the World: Representations and Theorizations of New Transnational Formations
CHUM 356
Fall 2010
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01
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| Crosslisting:
COL 356, SOC 356, ENGL 356 |
| Certificates: International Relations |
In the past four decades, the study of national territories, cultures, and societies has been supplemented and challenged by concepts and categories such as the transnational, the diasporic, the global, the cosmopolitan, and by the "worlding" vocabulary that has produced such notions as world literature, world music, world politics, etc. This course will examine literary and theoretical texts to ask what is at stake in this multiplication of categories across a range of disciplines, from postcolonial studies to sociology and beyond. We will discuss the relationship between actually existing phenomena and their construction as objects of knowledge by various disciplines and in fictional representations. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Intercultural Literacy, Interpretation
Students will need to develop their ability to read closely texts from several cultures and disciplines in order to develop points of comparison between them. The theoretical texts we read will be from several humanities and social science disciplines and discourses, so the ability to interpret their concepts and work with them will be important. Both the globe and the world-concepts are by definition more than Western and include other cultures.
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Course pack with selections from major authors (Immanuel Wallerstein, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, Christopher Prendergast, Sarah Lawall, et al.) Novels and films will also be assigned.
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Examinations and Assignments:
In-class presentations, a short paper based on that, and a longer final paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
COL and CSS majors may take this course for credit. All others must take it A-F, for a grade. |
| Instructor(s): Tölölyan,Khachig Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 9 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: X | FR: X |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 5 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
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