| Title: | Media and the Body |
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| Course Section Number: | GEN-303-01 |
| Department: | Rhetoric |
| Description: | Cross List: GEN-303=RHE-370. This course will explore the diverse ways that we talk about-and through-our bodies. Our bodies function as a primary medium for communication: our voices resound, our ears listen, our fingers touch, our knees kneel, our eyes connect, our genitals provoke. Sensation is at the heart of embodied communication. Our abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch both invite particular forms of communication and, too, limit our ability to persuade others. Likewise, bodies are omnipresent in media. Depictions of bodies engaging in myriad activities serve to entertain, inspire, convince, and attack. Media show us bodies at work and at play-sweating in the fields and naked in the throes of passion. Still further, our bodies are fundamentally changed by the media and technologies we use, from headphones and smart watches to vibrators and pharmaceuticals like birth control. Finally, certain bodies (or parts of bodies) are prevented from communicating or being discussed at all. Bodies-and the identities (gender, sexuality, race, ability) they exhibit-can be silenced by other bodies. This course will draw upon recent scholarship in rhetoric, media studies, gender studies, and queer theory. Students will engage in close investigation and discussion of readings, will analyze mediated texts, and will compose and present an original research project. Prerequisites: none. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2020 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2020-05/07/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 02:40PM - 03:55PM, Fine Arts Center, Room FA206
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| Faculty: | Geraths, Cory |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 14 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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