ENGL 4271/5271-D01 & WGST 4050/5050-002 Syllabus (fall 2024)
Major Assignments on Canvas
August 19: Introduction to the course
August 21: More Introduction
Isaac Asimov’s “Cult of Ignorance” (1980)
Fricke, David. “The E Street Band Keep Rolling in ’09” (2009)
August 26: Consider Media-ted Arguments
August 28: Media & American Culture
Jefferson, Thomas et. al. “The Declaration of Independence.” 4 July 1776.
September 2: Labor Day—No Class Meeting
September 4: The Medium is the Message!
September 9: The Public Sphere
September 11: Critical Theory
September 16: Let’s Talk about…
September 18: Postmodernism, Part 1
Critical Cultural Analysis ESSAY #1 Due on Canvas on 9/20, 11:00pm
September 23: Postmodernism, Part 2
September 25: Postmodernism, Part 3
September 30: Capitalist Realism
October 2: Hauntology
October 7: Myth in American Culture
October 9: MIDTERM EXAM—No Class Meeting
Exam is on Canvas
Be Reading one or both of these over your break:
Curran, James, Natalie Fenton, & Des Freedman. Misunderstanding the Internet
Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
October 14: Fall Break—No Class Meeting
October 16: Conference—No Class Meeting but Online Stuff
Images of Women in the Media (notes here)
Film on Kanopy through Atkins Library: Killing Us Softly 4 (2010)
October 21: The Internet, Part 1
October 23: The Internet, Part 2
October 28: The Internet, Part 3
October 30: Social Construction of Sexuality
November 4: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 1
November 6: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 2
November 11: Veteran’s Day—No Class Meeting
November 13: Hank Green’s An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Part 3
November 18: Feminism’s Non-Monolithic Nature
November 20: Compulsory Heterosexuality
November 25: Presentation Discussion
Critical Media Analysis Project Due on Canvas on Tuesday, 11/25, 11:00pm
Do the Online Teaching Evaluations
November 27-30: Thanksgiving Break
December 2: Presentations
Do the Online Teaching Evaluations
December 4: Presentations
Do the Online Teaching Evaluations
December 11: Final Exam–check Canvas