Culture and Communication

(Primary Faculty: B. Calafell, K. Willink)
The area of culture and communication investigates the communicative constitution and intersection of difference in its various codifications as culture, race, class, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender and sexual orientation. Its vision is to promote an ethic of inclusivity, racial and social justice, reciprocity, and mutual transformation in the encounter of difference. Courses reflect this emphasis, focusing on the social and performative construction of identity, the politics of representation, performances of affect, identity, and community and vernacular and embodied rhetorics, all informed by, critical, feminist and queer perspectives on cultural communication.

Sample of course topics in communication and culture:
- Critical Intercultural Communication
- Critical Methods for Studying Culture
- Writing Culture
- Critical Theories Race
- Culture, Power & Representation
- Performance Ethnography
- Critical Sexuality
- Critical Pedagogy
- Voices of Women of Color
- Cultural Memory