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ID182
- Are We Modern Yet?/First-Year Seminar
ID182 - Are We Modern Yet? /First-Year Seminar or regular class
This seminar asks what it means for places and peoples to be modern. We
begin by exploring when and where the imperative toward modernity began. The
class examines the economic, political and cultural dimensions of modernity.
We question the Eurocentric ideas that claim that modernity was a western
enterprise exported to the rest of the world. Next colonialism, nationalism
and Third World development are examined as specific projects of modernity.
Examples from Latin America and the Caribbean will help focus the
discussions for this section. Finally, we engage current debates about the
projects of modernity and ask: Have modern forms of knowledge and
institutions borne out their promise? Or is modernity in crisis? Are we
moving toward a postmodern era? Throughout the seminar we will highlight how
certain notions of race and gender shaped ideas about modernity. Ms. Asher/
Offered periodically.
Faculty
Kiran Asher, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of IDCE
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