Section Info: SPAN-250AT-01

Course Title: Concepts and Practices of Power: 'The Agency of Things: Material Culture of Latin America, Spain, and the U.S. Border'
Start Date: 10/21/2020 End Date: 12/14/2020
Term: Fall Semester 2020
Description: What is a thing? What is stuff? Water bottles, bread, trash, relics, photos, dirt, a broken printer, your favorite socks... Where do they come from and where are they going? In this course we'll gain an understanding of the political, historical, spatial, and affective agency of objects. We'll study how artists, writers, collectors, hoarders, migrants, and things of modern-day Latin America, Spain, and U.S.-border areas engage with the inanimate things around us. Our study will be enlightened by theoretical discussions on "Object Oriented Ontology," Environmental Humanities, the Anthropocene, everyday life, and automation. Students will also have a chance to decipher the meaning and trajectories of their own "stuff."
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Megan Saltzman             msaltzma@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020   Flex. Immersive Lecture   Monday   07:00PM - 08:15PM   TBA   TBA   Weekly
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020   Flex. Immersive Lecture   Tuesday and Thursday   07:00PM - 08:00PM       Weekly
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020   Flex. Immersive Lecture   Wednesday and Friday   07:00PM - 08:45PM       Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: SPAN-212. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Taught in Spanish  
Course Tags        
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought major   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  
CST0001   CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor.  
MOD0002   MOD-2: Courses meeting in Module 2   This course meets in Module 2.  

Cross-listed Sections        
None  

Course Availability
Section status: Closed     Capacity: 16     Enrollment: 16     Available: 0     Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.