HS 1605 - Writing, Film, and Representation in the Human Sciences

This course explores a variety of ways that individual, social, cultural, and political representations are depicted in various forms of writing and films. The questions are important to all those who seek to understand and interpret the reality of both self and other. Who writes and represents whom? How are the "Self" and the "Other" represented in the human sciences and what are some critiques of representation? Various approaches to self-representation and the representation of others will be explored. Autoethnography, ethnoautobiography, memoir, ethnography, fiction, and biography as represented in film and written forms will be examined and discussed. Students will have reading, writing, and film viewing assignments to enable them to engage fully with the meaning of representation. 3 credit(s)

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