COLT 360 introduces students to the analysis of human identity (including issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity) as a cultural formation. Students examine an array of materials from world culture, ranging from antiquity to the modern, from colonizing to indigenous cultures, from East to West and North to South. Through a select core of critical readings, students are given the tools to analyze the impact of cultural forms (books, films, songs, etc.) on the shaping of human identity. Students thus gain an appreciation for the politics of artistic representation; they learn to recognize the ways in which a nation or region’s culture may function both as a site for social control and for social change.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

• Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
• Multicultural Courses: Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance (IP)