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Simpson Center Crossdisciplinary Graduate Seminars are open to graduate students across disciplines and departments and allow both faculty and students to enrich their work through multi-disciplinary exchange.
HUM 595 courses in Engaged Scholarship/Public Culture explore relations about cultural research, public practice, and diverse forms of community engagement. These crosslisted courses extend and deepen inquiries central to the Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students.
Many of these courses are offered in conjunction with the community-based Masters of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell, which links students and faculty on both campuses with a local learning network of cultural organizations.
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Graduate Seminar Archives
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Winter 2009 • HUM 596D | BCULST 593
Topics in Cultural Studies: Environmental Politics
Instructor: Benjamin Gardner (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
W 5:45-10:05 pm UW2 221
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Why do struggles over the environment incite such passion? What does it mean to defend nature? How do our understandings of the environment influence our beliefs, values, and interests? This course looks at environmental politics as a theoretical and methodological way to understand the relationship between environmental issues and problems and contemporary struggles over culture, economy, and society. The course will prepare students to ask how and why political, economic, and social dynamics get left out of common understandings of environmental use and management.
Winter 2009 • HUM 596E | BCULST 584
Issues in Media Culture: Representation & the Political
Instructor: Susan Harewood (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
W 5:45-10:05 pm Location TBA
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Questions of justice and representation are fraught with challenges to which the scholar, activist, media practitioner must iteratively return in any move towards ethical media practices. In this course, students will explore communication scholars’ efforts to theorize “negative portrayals,” “positive portrayals,” and “reality” as they have examined media representational practices. The course will examine the ways relations of power produce media representations and are produced in media representations. Students will develop the analytical tools to consider and critically evaluate the epistemological assumptions which guide continuing efforts to challenge injurious representations in media scholarship, in mainstream media practices, and in alternate media practices.
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