Required Texts (available at Goering’s Book Store-Bageland)

Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital (Foreign Languages Press)
Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (International Publ.)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (NAL)
Ziauddin Sardar and Borin Van Loon, Cultural Studies for Beginners (Icon/Penguin)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Vintage)
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, An Introduction, Vol. I (Vintage)
Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness (McGraw-Hill)
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Viking)
Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons (Film: Stephen Frears, Director.  Rent video)
Diane Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, 2nd Edition (St. Martin’s)
 

Schedule

Week 1
Introduction.
Karl Marx, Wage Labour & Capital.

Week 2
Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, pp. 9–56, 65–77, 106–27, 147–69.

Week 3
George Orwell, Animal Farm.

Week 4
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
War Games (four teams or “countries” will compete to achieve different secret goals).
——PAPER DUE——

Week 5
War Games (four teams or “countries” will compete to achieve different secret goals).
Negotiations War Games (two negotiating teams or “adversaries” will attempt, by a set deadline, to create a contract that will resolve several interconnected conflicts).

Week 6
Negotiations War Games (two negotiating teams or “adversaries” will attempt, by a set deadline, to create a contract that will resolve several interconnected conflicts).

Week 7
Ziauddin Sardar & Borin Van Loon, Cultural Studies for Beginners.

Week 8
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

Week 9
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (continued).
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality.
——PAPER DUE——

Week 10
Foucault, History of Sexuality (continued).

Week 11
Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness.

Week 12
Berger, Ways of Seeing.
Student-discovered examples of ideological magazine advertising.

Week 13
Student-discovered examples of ideological magazine advertising (continued).

Week 14
Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons (film directed by Stephen Frears); students are responsible for renting the video and viewing the film.

Week 15
Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons (film directed by Stephen Frears); students are responsible for renting the video and viewing the film.
Review

——FINAL PAPER DUE THE FIRST DAY OF FINALS WEEK——