ASRC 1831 - FWS: Culture and Society

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

First-Year Writing Seminar.

O. Taiwo.

This course will introduce students to debates about culture and society from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the first part, we shall look at contemporary debates regarding how we go about understanding culture and its artifacts. Our focus here turns on different analytical approaches to understanding culture. In the second part, we shall consider debates about modern culture, its strengths and its limits. The third and final part of the course looks at how the insights garnered from the first two parts help us to make sense of aspects of a phenomenon which cuts across cultures, societies and borders but which has a peculiarly modern inflection: globalization.