COMS 425 — Urban Culture and Everyday Life

Explores how popular and artistic cultural texts interrogate the dimensions of urban culture that shape everyday life, such as transnationalization/ globalization; gentrification, migration and other displacements; the proliferation of mobile media and communication technologies; and the political mobilization of fear and anxiety about violence and terrorism.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Department: Art History & Communications
• Taught by: Jenny Burman
• Prerequisites: One of the following 200-level courses: COMS 200, COMS 210, COMS 230 AND one of the following 300-level courses: COMS 300, COMS 310, COMS 320, COMS 330, COMS 340, COMS 350, COMS 354, COMS 361, COMS 362, COMS 365 or permission of the instructor.

Sections offered

• Section 001 (Lec), Tue 2:35-5:25 pm — unknown seats open