SOCY-655 Language Discourse and Society (3)

This course has a specific focus on the politics of representation, the cultural struggles over how events, processes, institutions, and people are to be understood. Students learn contemporary theories and methods for understanding systems of signification in the production, maintenance, and subversion of historical relations of power. By using key concepts to examine data drawn from sources such as old and new media, interviews, advertisements, cultural artifacts, and social interaction, students cultivate nuanced understandings of the course readings.