EDUC-207 The University

Just what is a university, understood anthropologically? How do we understand its many subcultures, its organizational forms, its economies and its ideological functions? In this course, we will critically examine these questions, and discuss how "the university" is shaped by forces of globalization, migration, neoliberalism, and discourses of diversity. We will read ethnographies about "the university", analyzing how "the university," as a cultured institution, produces and reproduces various forms of inequality as well as generates new forms of subjectivity.

Maximum Enrollment

First Year Course (18)

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

ANTHR-207

Prerequisite

ANTHR-113 or EDUC-102

Notes

May be taught as an FYC at the discretion of the department. No prerequisites when taught as an FYC.