Culture & Expression, Basic Information Spring 2019 Faculty, Social Science – HUHC 012 (BH): Margaret Abraham (Sociology), Brenda Elsey (History), Massoud Fazeli (Economics), Stefanie Nanes (Political Science), S.M. Rodriguez (Sociology), Mario Ruiz (History) Faculty, Humanities – HUHC014 (LT): Chandler Carter (Music), Alfonso Garcia-Osuna (Romance Languages & Literature), Jennifer Henton (English), Elyor Karimov (Art History), Lauren Kozol (HUHC/Writing Studies and Rhetoric), John Maerhofer (Writing Studies and Rhetoric), Vimala Pasupathi (HUHC/English) Course Description New Approach to C & E, Spring 2019: In an effort to be more inclusive this Spring in C&E, Honors College consciously sought out faculty with specialties in the Global South. This ambiguous term - “Global South” and the regions or people it refers to - will be discussed and debated this semester. Loosely speaking, we are using it to explore what has also been termed the “Developing World” according to specific economic, cultural and geographic markers. This includes areas in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East, as well as marginalized communities in the U.S. and Europe. Our focus on these regions has led us directly to our theme for the Spring 2019 semester - The Margins. The Theme: What exactly do we mean by “the margins”? Margins define the borders of physical space and frame the content of writing on the page. Politically, they are sites of oppression and transgression, limitation and transformation. During the course, we will examine the relationship between people in power and those who remain outside of it or who operate on its edges. We begin with an introductory unit to explore theoretical approaches from both Social Science and Humanities perspectives. Our first unit, “Migration and Spaces,” will include an historical look at how imperial powers construct “in-groups” and “out-groups,” and how migrants respond, creating new political and artistic modes of expression. Our next unit will center around “Labor and Mobilization,” with works from sixteenth-century Spain to the contemporary Middle East as well as current issues from the gig economy to multinationals to issues of cyber-migration. Our third unit, “Violence and Resistance,” explores the road to and away from Socialism in Eastern Europe and Latin America, as well as empire, civil rights and identity. In our final unit, “Creativity and Transformation,” we will discuss works that transcend national and personal tragedies from Haiti to Iran to an imagined, transglobal interior space - “the sea of stories.” In addition to books and the practice of reading, our course will focus on artists working in various media who have been marginalized: that is, ignored, suppressed or otherwise disempowered. In a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary fashion, we will explore how the margins of text, self, community and world both restrict and liberate.
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