Course Info: HACU-0293
| Course | HACU-0293 Culture in the Digital Age |
| Long Title | Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Digital Age |
| Term | 2015F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 2 on T,TH from 10:30-11:50 |
| Faculty | Professor Loza |
| Capacity | 25 |
| Available | 7 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend 10-12 hours weekly on preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | This seminar explored the interface of technology with gender and race, how the concepts of gender, race, and sexuality are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender, race, and sexuality. It examined how contemporary products - such as film, TV, video games, science fiction, social networking technologies, and biotech - reflect and mediate long-standing but ever-shifting anxieties about race, gender, and sexuality. The course considered the following questions: How do cybertechnologies enter into our personal, social, and work lives? Do these technologies offer new perspectives on cultural difference? How does cyberculture reinscribe or rewrite gender, racial, and sexual dichotomies? Does it open up room for alternative identities, cultures, and communities? Does it offer the possibility of transcending the sociocultural limits of the body? Finally, what are the political implications of these digital technologies? This course was reading-, writing-, and theory-intensive. |