Class notes (thanks Brooke!):
Week 1 (July 2-8): Introduction: Culture, Communication and Media
Monday: Communication Between Cultures-ch1.pdf
Tuesday: Communication Between Cultures-ch2.pdf
Wednesday: “Communication as Culture,” James W. Carey (handout); “Keywords,” Tony Bennet, Lawrence Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris (handout).
Thursday: “Defusing the Cannon,” Antonio Lopez; handout on ethnography
Week 2 (July 12-15): Boundary Objects and Communication Borderlands
Monday: “Circling the Cross,” Antonio Lopez
Tuesday: “Encoding, Decoding,” Stuart Hall
Due in class: Participatory observation/ethnographic study
Wednesday: “Intertextuality and the Study of Texts,” Jonathan Gray
Thursday: “Boundary Projects versus Border Patrol,” Irene J. Klaver
Week 3 (July 19-23): Contact/Others/Paradigm Wars/Hybridity
Monday: Midterm review
Tuesday: Work on midterm at home.
Wednesday: “The Problem of National Culture,” Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
Midterm paper due
Thursday: “Counterpoint and Contrapunto,” Lucila Vargas
Week 4 (July 26-29): Intercultural Communication, Globalization & Ecology
Monday: handout
Tuesday: handout
Wednesday: handout
Presentations (to be scheduled) of intertextual boundary object due. Paper due on Wed.
Thursday: Final Exam
