Consuming Culture

Catalog description

This First Year Seminar focuses on consumption-how what you eat, buy and listen to is coded with social status including class, gender and race. College students are in the process of developing adult identities and this course examines how social aspects of our identities shape consumption. Sociologists see consumption as a way we negotiate our identities or tell the world who we are. Ultimately this class will help you consider and think critically about what you consume or buy and how status shapes what we eat and purchase. Lastly, this class links to the first-year reading. The common reading can help us about how literature we consume or read is also coded with social status.