AHSS 3000

This course invites students to consider the degree to which one's sense of self is fashioned through personal choices/experiences, whether modern notions of selfhood are really modern, how one's sense of self is informed by power dynamics, whether identity politics offers those suffering oppression with an effective tool to confront it, and whether cosmopolitanism offers an effective and responsible way of managing cultural difference. Course discussions will focus on how identities emerge, acquire salience, lose relevance, and are redefined at unique historical conjunctures. [Department(s): Liberal Studies]