Projecting Power

Semester
Spring 2024
Instructor(s)
Units
4
Section
1
Number
140O
CCN
22660
Times
Tu/Th 3:30-6:30PM
Location
SOCS166
Course Description

The course will cover ethnic politics, broadly conceived with a particular focus on social movements, protests, civil disobedience and political violence. Related topics may include immigration, crime and the state, and urban politics. We will consider a range of questions including, how do stories influence our sense of self, community and nation? How do filmmaking techniques influence which people and issues become salient? How do aesthetic and narrative choices affect attitudes about the social order and who is deserving of power? Through close readings of films, social science, and media studies scholarship, this course will enable students to study key political science concepts, the institution of cinema, and how stories make meaning

 

Subfield:   Comparative Politics