Death and Dying at the End of the World
SOC 292
Spring 2021
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Death looms large over life. The digital has given people unprecedented access to global media focused on death and dying, from far-flung calamities killing thousands to intimate gofundme pages for your friends' cancer treatments. In an age of data-enabled prediction and preemption, death is capricious and untimely, remaining stubbornly resistant to scientific and philosophical certainty, despite ever more complex systems for death management. Meanwhile, circulating discourses of ecological and political catastrophe have proliferated thoughts of genocide, extinction, and planetary death. In this course, we look at contemporary encounters with death and dying at a variety of scales, from the search for death's meaning/a meaningful death, to understanding death as a public feeling and inspiration for political imagination. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (HRAD-MN)(SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Selected readings from Octavia Butler, Douglas Crimp, Bernd Heinrich, Audre Lorde, Jessica Mitford, Denise Riley, David Wojnarowicz and more
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Examinations and Assignments:
Response papers, Group Presentation, Final Paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Haber,Benjamin Times: ...W... 01:20PM-04:10PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 6 | JR major: 6 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 17 | 1st Ranked: 5 | 2nd Ranked: 5 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 3 | Unranked: 4 |
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