Authenticity & Its Others
SOC 307
Spring 2011
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This course will examine scholarly and popular conceptions of authenticity and inauthenticity. How do notions of authenticity function within contemporary culture? What are the various inauthentic others to which authenticity is juxtaposed? |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: SOC151 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
14 Movies including THE MATRIX, AVATAR, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Karl Marx, ECONOMIC & PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Theodore Adorno, THE JARGON OF AUTHENTICITY
Jean Baudrillard, SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION
Donna J. Haraway, SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN
N. Katherine Hayles, HOW WE BECAME POSTHUMAN
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly film analysis, weekly reading journals, final paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
The class will meet during the regular Tues/Thurs sessions and will also include a movie lab on Mondays, 8pm-10pm. |
| Instructor(s): Cutler,Jonathan Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; .M..... 08:00PM-10:00PM; Location: ALLB304; ALLB304; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 3 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
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