Instructor: Dr. Stephen Kim

3 credits. Letter grades only.
Offered: Fall.

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Course Description

When thinking about workplace inclusion, it may seem counterintuitive to reach for imaginative works like novels, plays, and television shows. Fields such as feminist, queer, and ethnic studies have shown, however, that analysis of imaginative work can yield critique and expansion of our current understandings of inclusion. How can studying imaginative works help us understand more astutely the thorny issues related to identity and inclusion that social scientific research describes? How can exploring cultural production help deepen our understandings of power and imagine ways to make our working lives more inclusive? In this course, we will engage with a range of creative genres (e.g. novel, play, memoir, television show) in addition to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. We will also work extensively on writing through substantial revision of essays.

This course fulfills the ILR Sophomore Writing requirement.

Learning Outcomes

• Analyze workplace issues from a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on how cultural critique and cultural production can supplement social scientific analysis
• Engage in critical, reasoned analyses of issues, ideas, and cultural works (art, literature, film, etc.) related to workplace inclusion
• Work independently and in cooperation with others to innovate new approaches to workplace inclusion through synthesizing learning from cultural production and scholarly research
• Explain ideas and analyses through written and oral communication, and hone the craft of academic writing across analytical and reflective modes

Enrollment limited to:

ILR sophomores, others by permission of instructor.