Authenticity and Its Others
SOC 307
Spring 2020 not offered
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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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| 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: (SOC) |
Major Readings:
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. |
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