COM 338: Identity, Power, & Culture

Goal: To analyze societal position, ideology, and power dynamics from critical cultural and feminist theoretical perspectives.
Content: This course will focus on cultural, rhetorical discourses in the United States with a feminist, intersectional approach. Working through contemporary conversations and controversies with an eye to past positionality and knowledge creation, topics will include critical theory, the social construction of reality, race, class, queer, and citizen/immigrant identities as historical sites of oppression, and US ideology, narratives, and social change.
Prerequisite(s): COM 214, COM 215, COM 216, WGS 200, or WGS 250. Or permission of instructor.
Cross-Listed as: WGS 338.
Credit: 3
Degree Level: Undergraduate