Money makes the world go round.
Show me the money. This course will address the many ways in which money pervades social life. As a medium of both symbolic and material exchange, it reflects and reproduces social arrangements. The readings in this course will treat the role of money in a wide variety of arenas, from politics, history and finance, to gender, religion and art. Thus, this course will be relevant to undergraduates majoring in any of these fields, while at the same time exposing them to a critical perspective that is particular to the social sciences.