Requirements Students will be required to attend three class meetings a week, including one discussion section on Tuesdays as noted above. Three after-hour films will be shown during the course and one documentary in class. Students must attend 2 out of 3 of these after-hour films. There will be no examinations in this course. Rather, through two papers and weekly, one-page journal reflections, students will be asked to analyze seriously the texts, ideas and images that knit together the themes of the course.
Journals are due every at class time on Thursdays.
At least one of these papers must be comparative, that is, analyzing one society in relation to another. The first paper is due on or before Monday, Oct. 22ned. The second paper is due Tuesday, December 12th, during the week of final exams. There will be three required books for the course, available at the Bates College Bookstore, in addition to a course packet of articles and primary source documents. Time and place t.b.a.