AMST180

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AMST180

Critical Issues in Contemporary Society: Approaches to Radical Change AMST180 SP

Crosslistings: WMST180

Not Currently Offered

A collectively taught and student organized course. This course confronts the traditional character of teacher-student relations by rotating teaching responsibilities. The course challenges the hierarchy, oppression and exploitation in modern American culture with a variety of critical analyses and alternative proposals. With the guidance of two student facilitators, groups of eight to twelve students will plan and read the course's agenda: they will educate themselves. Topics cover an introduction to current trends in leftist thought, including anarchism, ecology, feminism, Marxism and ethnic perspectives. The class will deepen its understanding of these views with an analysis of sexuality, heterosexuality, gender, family, race, community, society and liberalism. This course integrates the personal with the political. Projects have included guerrila theater, community organizing and campus activism.

MAJOR READINGS

To be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly written responses to the readings. Midterm and final projects. Community service activity also required. Attendance and class participation mandatory. Each student must be committed to reading 100+ pages a week.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

There is no preregistration. Course admission is through interviews with the teaching assistants during Drop/Add period only. Interviews ensure that each section is balanced in terms of year, gender, race, political experience and academic background. There will be a course fee of $15.00.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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