There will be 11 quizzes. I will drop your lowest quiz grade resulting in 10 quiz scores. There will be NO make-up quizzes . The experiment can be of you violating norms with people, or merely examining and detailing a nonverbal situation. Presentations should be around 10 minutes in length.
Cultures articulate their ideologies both linguistically and non-linguistically.
In this class, we are interested in the latter. This assignment calls for you to identify and unpack one particular instance of nonverbal ideological articulation in the American culture. Examples might include tattoos, dance, music, cars, cd covers etc. The paper is to be a very tight synopsis which outlines the nature of the symbol and the various ways in which it articulates a culture s value-systems. This course is a letter graded course.