AMST 2885
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- Schedule of Classes - September 9, 2021 7:14PM EDT
- Course Catalog - September 9, 2021 7:15PM EDT
Classes
AMST 2885
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.
This course will examine consumerism in the United States, first focusing on the rise of advertising, mass-market goods, shop windows, and department stores at the turn of the 20th century. We will examine the built environment, the experience of shopping, and the consequent disease of "kleptomania", looking at inequality and activism as a potential political outlet for consumerism. We will also study consumerism as a system of cultural meaning. How do our objects shape and symbolize our identities? What does our constellation of material goods say about our values, our beliefs, and our lives? What stands outside consumer culture? What does it mean to commodify love or bottle nature? Can art or beauty be beyond value?
When Offered Spring.
Distribution Category (CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 2885
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Online Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Bitar, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
Students interested in joining the waitlist should email mm894@cornell.edu.
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Online Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Bitar, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Online Meeting
- Feb 8 - May 14, 2021
Instructors
Bitar, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Online
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