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HUM 110W, 001-007; 130-134; & 145/Professor Hausman/TF 10:10-11:00am
MAP OF KNOWLEDGE: This course presents a study of the culture wars in academia and the relationship of those wars to national life. Underlying these struggles is the structure of an academic institution and the training and expertise of its faculty, all of which will be discussed in detail. THIS COURSE HAS A RECITATION ON WEDNESDAY FOR EACH SECTION. THE RECITATION LEADERS FOR THE SECTIONS SHALL BE MR. FRANK BOARDMAN, MS. MONIQUE WHITAKER, MR. GREGORY ZUCKER, AND PROF. HAUSMAN. PLEASE CHECK COURSE SCHEDULE FOR THE TIME EACH SECTION MEETS FOR ITS WEDNESDAY RECITATION.
This is a writing intensive (W) course that blends the requirements of the first year Hunter seminar (FYSH) with its main theme, the structure of academic life. We will examine the nature of academic discourse and its purpose; the fights over challenges to the traditional methods and content of learning posed by Women’s Studies and Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies; the relation between popular culture and academic culture; and the structure of colleges and universities, including what professors must do to become professors, the nature of professionalism, the relationship between research and teaching, academic freedom, and the impingement of the world outside academia on academic life. In summary, this is a course in the politics of academia.
This course satisfies FYSH requirements.
REQUIREMENTS: two one-hour exams and a final exam, several papers including a final term paper.
Texts:
E. D. Hirsch’s Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (New York: Knopf Pub., 1988). ISBN--13:9780394758435. $14.95.
Gerald Graff’s Beyond the Culture Wars (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993). ISBN--13:9780393311136. $13.95.
Assigned readings on Blackboard.
