Course Info: IA-0288
| Course | IA-0288 For Whom It Stands |
| Long Title | For Whom It Stands: Symbolism in American Culture |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Cole Science Center 333 on W from 4:00-7:00 |
| Faculty | Mei Ann TeoüProfessor Tinson |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Available | 14 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Power, Community and Social Justice |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research. |
| Description | This upper-level course brings together the humanities and social sciences, in particular theater and history, in exploration of multiple conflicting and contested meanings of the U.S. flag. We explore the meanings woven into the flag and artistic and political reimagining of the flag alongside popular meanings and mobilizations of this treasured national symbol. Our goal is to think deeply and broadly about how symbols shape our lives and to look historically and critically into questions of belonging, citizenship, identity, and power domestically and across the globe. We emphasize creative modes of inquiry that are informed and shaped by archival knowledge, oral history narratives, songs, letters, diaries, and speeches that help map the layered and often competing imaginings embroidered into the fabric of the flag. |