CCM 7350 Material Culture 3.0 Credits
Stuff. Things. Goods. Possessions. This course explores the relationship between human beings and the material objects that surround us. Drawing from literature in anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, communications, and science and technology studies, it will be exploring the cultural and social life of things: how they move across borders and through our lives, how they accumulate and disperse, how they define the difference between social groups and classes, and, most of all, how they lend our lives weight and meaning. This course will also be exploring the status of things in the digital age, emergent notions of materiality, and cutting edge work in new materialism studies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit