| 4 January |
Course Introduction
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| 6 January |
Road Scholar screened in class
Internet Resources:
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| 9 January |
| Road Scholar (cont.)
Required
Reading:
- Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayma, and Lisa Flores, "A Dialectical
Approach to Intercultural Communication"
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| Narratives about Intercultural Life |
| 11 January |
Required
Reading:
- Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayma, and Lisa Flores (cont.)
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| 13 January |
Required
Reading:
- Jacqueline Taylor, "Performing Commitment"
Internet Resources:
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| 16 January |
Required
Reading:
- Eduardo Santiago, "The Night Rodney King Kissed Me"
- Sherman Alexie, "Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only
Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star Spangled Banner' at Woodstock"
Internet Resources:
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| Communication and Age |
| 18 January |
Required
Reading:
- James Lull, "On the Communicative Properties of Music"
Internet Resources:
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| 20 January |
Required
Listening (in class):
- Daniel Makagon, Bass/(super)sonicstructure
Internet Resources:
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| 23 January |
Required
Reading:
- Barbara Meyerhoff, "Life Not Death in Venice"
Internet Resources:
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| 25 January |
| Required
Reading:
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| 27 January |
| Cultural Context Presentations |
| Immigration, Integration, and Conflict |
| 30 January |
Required
Reading:
- Dwight Conquergood, "Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accommodations
in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement"
Internet Resources:
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| 1 February |
Required Reading:
- Fernaanda Eberstadt, "A Frenchman or a Jew?"
- Elaine Sciolino, "France Envisions a Citizenry of Model Muslims"
- Manthia Diawara, "The Pretender"
Internet Resources:
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| 3 February |
| Cultural Context Presentations |
| Race and Class in America |
| 6 February |
Required
Reading:
- Mark Edmundson, "On Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students"
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| 8 February |
Required
Reading:
- Earl Shorris, "On Education: As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor"
Internet Resources:
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| 10 February |
Required
Reading:
- Lisa Jones, "Is Biracial Enough? (or, What's This About a Multiracial
Category on the Census?: A Conversation)"
- Joseph Berger, "Indian, Twice Removed"
Internet Resources:
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| 13 February |
Required
Reading:
- Thomas Nakayama and Robert Krizek, "Whiteness: A Strategic
Rhetoric"
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| 15 February |
Required
Reading:
- Nakayama and Krizek (cont.)/TBA
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| 17 February |
| Cultural Context Presentations |
| Popular Culture as Intercultural Communication |
| 20 February |
Required
Reading:
- Gilbert Rodman, "Race . . . and Other Four Letter Words: Eminem
and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity"
Internet Resources:
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| 22 February |
Required Reading:
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Last Due Date for Analysis Papers |
| 24 February |
| Required
Reading:
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| 27 February |
Required
Reading:
- Eileen Luhr, "Metal Missionaries to the Nation: Christian Heavy
Metal Music, 'Family Values,' and Youth Culture, 1984-1994"
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| 1 March |
Required
Reading:
- "Pro Vs. Pro: Vietnam Feature for gamepro.com"
Internet Resources:
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| 3 March |
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| 6 March |
Required
Reading:
- Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad Valdivia, “Brain, Brow,
and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture”
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| 8 March |
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| 10 March |
| Final Papers Due by Noon |