400

Comics have long been a forum to define what is essentially American within US popular culture. Debates about national belonging, gender roles and racial formation are embedded in everything from Superman to The Avengers, to graphic novels like Maus: A Survivor’s Tale and Watchmen. This class will explore constructions of heroism, relationships between text & image, and current youth culture.

Examines political foundations of education alongside epistemological, ontological, phenomenological, metaphysical, and ethical lines of inquiry. Addresses issues relating to educational injustices, such as discrimination, oppression, colonialism. Features thinkers outside the "Western" canon of philosophy, and thinkers “outside” the discipline of philosophy, as this discipline has often been construed by the "Western" tradition. 

This workshop is for students who intend to graduate with an Ethnic Studies minor and who are enrolled in an approved upper division Ethnic Studies course. It is intended to ensure that capstone project satisfies both the minor and requirement for the course. Course is graded P/NP.