| Course Title: Performing the Self |
| Start Date: 08/24/2020 End Date: 10/15/2020 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2020 |
| Description: How do we represent ourselves as we document our lives and communicate with others? In this seminar we will move beyond critiques of selfie culture, instead analyzing self-representation as an important avenue for forming identities. We will study forms of self-representation across history and will focus on visual and new media as platforms for performing selfhood. Students will discuss the politics and aesthetics of self-fashioning across these media forms, and will execute multiple forms of self-expression, including the argumentative essay, the op-ed, the blog post, and the tweet. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     | Credits:4.00     |
| Faculty         | Phone         | Email address         |
| Hannah Goodwin   |           | hgoodwin@mtholyoke.edu   |
| Meeting Dates         | Method         | Meeting days         | Meeting times         | Building name         | Room     | Frequency     |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020   | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc.   | Monday   | 09:45AM - 11:00AM   | TBA   | TBA   | Weekly |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020   | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc.   | Tuesday and Thursday   | 09:30AM - 11:15AM   |   |   | Weekly |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020   | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc.   | Wednesday and Friday   | 10:15AM - 11:15AM   |   |   | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses         | ||
| None |           |           |
| Comments         |
| Additional Comments         |
| Course Tags         | ||
| FYSEM0001   | First-Year Seminar   | This is a First-Year Seminar.   |
| NXMAP0001   | NXMAP: Nexus in Museums, Archives, and Public History   | This course is approved for the Museums, Archives, and Public History Nexus track.   |
| NXJRN0001   | NXJRN: Nexus in Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse   | This course is approved for the Journalism, Media, & Public Discourse Nexus track.   |
| MOD0001   | MOD-1: Courses meeting in Module 1   | This course meets in Module 1.   |
| Cross-listed Sections         |
| None   |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed     | Capacity: 16     | Enrollment: 17     | Available: 0     | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List         | Required         | Publisher Full Price         |
| Title: Trick Mirror Author: Tolentino, Jia Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0525510540 Publisher: Random House |
Required   | 27.00   |
| Additional Book Comments         |
| This is the complete book list for this class.   |