Specific topics include the rise of popular culture, advertising as a social institution, socialization and the consumer role, marketplace settings and rituals, consumer movements and critiques, and consumption-related environmental problems. Consumption contexts considered include shopping malls, the modern home, tourism and popular entertainments. The aim of this course is to introduce the students to and immerse them in Native American culture and society. SO 300 Community Involvement Students engage in approximately two hours of weekly public service within agencies or organizations in the Greater Boston area. In their journals and class discussions, students reflect on both the purposes of that work as well as on its limits as a response to specific needs within the community and more general problems of social justice.
Students also conduct participant observation field explorations at their sites.
The course explores issues of social responsibility and citizenship in the professions and business world in relation to the social problems that students become acquainted with through their community work. Presents opportunity for superior students to engage in specialized study. Allows repetition for credit. Instructor's permission Permits the intensive study of selected topics in small groups of more advanced students. Allows repetition for credit.