This year s course may differ. Other Harris School courses are listed here . These are some of the graduate courses held outside the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies that present issues and methods of interest to cultural policy studies. Academic Year Autumn 2000 ENG 539. Charting that history and, more importantly, looking closely at the texts that constitute it, will be our task in this seminar.
Most theories of culture are better suited for explaining social stasis than social change.
Indeed, they often see social change as somehow originating outside the cultural realm, for example, from social breakdowns, economic changes, or contact with other societies. The goal of this class will be to build change into the theory of culture in part by insisting that culture be conceptualized as practical activity. The readings will include both theoretical works and concrete investigations of social change. This seminar will focus on the question of the definition of the French nation from the French Revolution to the present. US Cultural History 1 Harris, Neil.