Questions to be explored:

What is the relationship between culture and language? How do words, expressions, and/or idioms, reveal attitudes, values or beliefs specific to a given culture? How is language used to measure cultural capital? How are cultural values and attitudes represented in narratives? How do language and representation generate, mediate, and challenge power?

READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

16-feb            Identidad y diferencia

                    Pollito Chicken

                    Studying Culture 3 Chapter 2 (pp. 31-40)

18-feb            Representaciones y narraciones de la diferencia

                    Studying Culture 4 Chapter 2 (pp. 57-61)

                    Díaz, “How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie”

23-feb            Repaso de términos y conceptos

                    Taller: Primera Reacción Crítica

25-feb            LECTURE (12-1:30)

                    “Manifold Destiny: Arabs at a South American Border”

                    101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St.

1-mar                Narrativas y diferencia

                    Studying Culture, Chapter 7 (pp.189-211)

3-mar                Narrativas y diferencia

                    El lobo, el hombre, y el hombre nuevo

8-mar                Ideología y hegemonía

                    Burke, “Antonio Gramsci: Schooling and Education”

10-mar            Examen 1

15-mar            Ideología y hegemonía

                    García Márquez, “Un día de éstos”

17-mar            Hegemonía, representación, diferencia, y poder

                    Calle 13, “Pa’l Norte”