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i need help deciding on my open unit next year. coz if i can help it, i dont want an extra law unit.
contemporary world politics
This unit aims to provide students with a critical understanding of contemporary world politics. Drawing on contemporary theories of world politics, it introduces students to debates about the structure of the global system and debates about actors and agency within it, explicitly linking theory to empirical analysis and to practice. Drawing on the key themes of power and representation, the unit examines states, sovereignty, interests and power; international institutions, interdependence and globalisation; international political economy and empire; identity politics; securitisation; war and violent conflict; the war on terror; the end of history; and the clash of civilisations.
OR
culture and society
With a largely conceptual and theoretical focus, the unit uses examples from creative arts and debates in anthropology, cultural studies and sociology to consider how the symbolic realm is connected to the material order of society. It addresses how culture is constituted by changing ideas and practices which are crucial to the (re)production and alteration of social structures and relations. We engage some 'classics' of cultural criticism, and contemporary forms such as musical and body cultures to evaluate the significance and meaning of cultural tastes, values, preferences and affinities.
so, how now?.
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actually i was thinking of
comedy
Can we take the comedy of ancient Greece and Rome seriously? Can we trace the roots of Bart Simpson's comedic family tree back to the comedy slaves of Aristophanes and Plautus? In this unit we will examine the full range of comic, satiric, and invective discourse in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome - from graffiti and oratorical insults, through Old and New Comedy, to the comic novel - to discover how laughter functioned in antiquity both as subversive political critique and conservative social commentary.
bart simpson. woohoo!
also theres an open unit called
indian politics:bollywood to the bomb (i wonder if id get to interview shah rukh khan or somethin)
contemporary world politics
This unit aims to provide students with a critical understanding of contemporary world politics. Drawing on contemporary theories of world politics, it introduces students to debates about the structure of the global system and debates about actors and agency within it, explicitly linking theory to empirical analysis and to practice. Drawing on the key themes of power and representation, the unit examines states, sovereignty, interests and power; international institutions, interdependence and globalisation; international political economy and empire; identity politics; securitisation; war and violent conflict; the war on terror; the end of history; and the clash of civilisations.
OR
culture and society
With a largely conceptual and theoretical focus, the unit uses examples from creative arts and debates in anthropology, cultural studies and sociology to consider how the symbolic realm is connected to the material order of society. It addresses how culture is constituted by changing ideas and practices which are crucial to the (re)production and alteration of social structures and relations. We engage some 'classics' of cultural criticism, and contemporary forms such as musical and body cultures to evaluate the significance and meaning of cultural tastes, values, preferences and affinities.
so, how now?.
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actually i was thinking of
comedy
Can we take the comedy of ancient Greece and Rome seriously? Can we trace the roots of Bart Simpson's comedic family tree back to the comedy slaves of Aristophanes and Plautus? In this unit we will examine the full range of comic, satiric, and invective discourse in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome - from graffiti and oratorical insults, through Old and New Comedy, to the comic novel - to discover how laughter functioned in antiquity both as subversive political critique and conservative social commentary.
bart simpson. woohoo!
also theres an open unit called
indian politics:bollywood to the bomb (i wonder if id get to interview shah rukh khan or somethin)
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