105I. Visions of Girlhood in Contemporary U.S. Film and Popular Culture (A)
This analysis of girlhood narratives in contemporary U.S. film and popular culture will produce an approach that accounts for the myriad ways girls bear dominant cultural fictions surrounding "womanhood" and represent signs of feminist, queer and anti-racist resistance.Katie Kanagawa
105J. Style Wars: An Introduction to Critical & Cultural Theory (A)
Style matters; it is powerful and always changing. This course is organized around a series of 'Style Wars' that offer the chance to think about how and why 'style' is repeatedly used to ignite social, and not 'simply aesthetic,' change.Nichole Archer
Session II: July 28-August 29, 2008
106F. Built and Social Environments of Las Vegas (A)
An interdisciplinary study of Las Vegas - communities, civic structures and commercial industry. This course explores the social, political and economic forces which have inflected urban growth and design in Las Vegas from 1900 to 2000. Mahlon Chute
