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Spring 2007

COMM590
Transnational Multicultural Studies in Communications
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Prof. Angharad N. Valdivia ( valdivia@uiuc.edu )
Thursday 3:00pm-5:00pm
221 Gregory
CRN: 41214 

This course explores issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class from a global perspective within the broad ranging fields of communications and media studies.  Furthermore, given that one of the themes is "global/local" our attention will include issues of border studies and national [US] immigration and constructions of difference as they are related to the transnational framework of analysis.  Whereas previously the bulk of the readings came from an interdisciplinary set of sources, contemporarily there is excellent material from within communications and media studies.  Nonetheless, we will work against the backdrop of postcolonial studies, international studies, Latin American Studies, English literature, anthropology, US Latina/o studies, feminist and multicultural studies.  Students can choose to write response essays or invest their time in one research paper.