| Course Title: Special Topics in Sociology: 'Consumer Culture: Race in the Marketplace' |
| Start Date: 01/21/2020 End Date: 05/05/2020 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2020 |
| Description: This course looks at the central concerns of consumer culture through the lens of race and ethnicity. Through exploring issues such as multicultural marketing and advertising, discrimination in e-commerce, consumer boycotts, and urban food deserts, students will gain theoretical and empirical insight on the ways that racial and ethnic boundaries shape, and are shaped by, consumption. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Patricia Banks   |           | pbanks@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 01/21/2020 - 05/05/2020   | Seminar   | Monday   | 01:30PM - 04:20PM   | PORT - Porter Hall   | 108   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Sociology, Economics, or EOS. | Take previously   | Required   |
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| Course Tags         | ||
| AFCNA0001   | AFCNA: Africana Studies major   | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor.   |
| AFCNA0001   | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor   | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor.   |
| EOS0003   | EOS-3: Structures of Inequality   | This course has been approved to count towards the EOS minor in the Structures of Inequality subject area   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| None   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open     | Capacity: 15     | Enrollment: 13     | Available: 2     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| No book purchases are required/recommended for this class. |           |           |
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