What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

XC - Quarter 4 - Babies

As a follow up to our parenting mini-unit - please watch Babies, playing now at a theater near you. In 3-5 paragraphs total answer 2 of the following questions:

1. Did one culture, shown in the film, have a better way of parenting than the others?
2. How did each family prepare the child to take its "place" in their society? Did communication, cuddling, supervision, discipline line up to "mold" the kid for that society? Or do you think that a kid from one society would have been able to transfer successfully/easily at age 1 to one of the others?
3. What looked universal - common to all humans - from the film - at least as edited? Why is this universality significant?
4. Your own question.

Due Friday, June 4, 11pm, equivalent of 1 assignment.

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