Cultures and Societies

Catalog description

This course gives students a critical introductory look at the major's three main themes: culture, inequality, and social change. It aims to achieve two goals: 1. Introducing students to the basic ideas and debates on the concepts of inequality as drivers of cultural, societal, and historical change. 2. Examining how racial, ethnic, gender, class and other forms of differences drive changes at both local, and global and planetary scales; and how power plays a role in these historical changes. The course consists of a number of modules on topics including technology, environment, and new media. This course will prepare students for the 200 level ID courses that drive these discussions further onto more specific topics. 002341