Fall Quarter 2025
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HUM 010 How to be a Critic: Fashion
Claire Goldstein
In this two-unit course*, we will explore the cultural significance of fashion from Gandhi’s khadi cloth to Lady Gaga’s meat dress. We will examine fashion icons, the ethics of fashion, and the role fashion plays in social movements and identity formation, using a wide range of humanities approaches to better understand the role fashion plays in our world and our everyday lives. GE credit: AH.
*Students enrolled in HUM 010 may add an optional once-a-week discussion section, HUM 10D, for two additional units and an additional GE credit (WE). CRN 34907 or 34908
HUM 015 Language & Identity
Eric Russell
In this course, we will explore language and different communicative acts that are deemed inappropriate, offensive, or otherwise taboo. Through this, you will come to better understand how these language activities reflect our complex identities, as well as how our attitudes about our own and others' language acts reflects hidden (and sometimes not-so-hidden) power structures. Working together and guided by readings, we will peel back several layers of what may go by unnoticed in day-to-day life, confront some of our own preconceptions about our own and other's language, and begin to understand the ways that language shapes and is shaped by forces such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.
