HONR 31500: Across Differences: Exile

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Catalog

To understand and combat systemic injustices, our students must be equipped to engage with the historical and present-day racial and ethnic "reckonings" that define the United States, and large parts of the globe. This course offers students an opportunity to focus on cultural landscapes/contexts, to learn how race and ethnicity permeate cultural texts, genres, and industries. The course trains students to recognize how race-and-ethnicity-based inequities intersect with issues of class, gender, and/or sexuality, and how these intersections articulate themselves in/through culture. Students will grapple with the colonial, national, transatlantic, trans-cultural, and diasporic underpinnings of culture. Topics that will be explored will vary each semester, but to attend to the diverse ways in which students learn and demonstrate their learning, all sections will use interdisciplinary materials like songs, films, video games, sporting events, poems, neighborhood maps, photographs, fine art pieces, oral histories, interviews, and newspapers, in addition to traditional/scholarly publications.

Course HONR 315 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.