LLC Ph.D. Program Spring 2012 Schedule of Classes
Updated November 21, 2011
Courses listed by day and time:
4:30-7:00pm / 7:10-9:40pm / Other TimesMonday / LLC 750.02 Cultural and Media Theory for LLC (Saper)
LLC 606/SOCY 606: Social Inequality & Social Policy (Adler) / LLC 613, GWST 613, MLL 613, GWST 413, & MLL 413: Language, Gender & Culture (Mallinson)
Tuesday / LLC 648/890: Academic and Research Writing & Research Proposal Seminar (Truscello)
LLC 601/MLL601: Intercultural Pragmatics (Mallinson) / LLC 650: Ethnographic Methods (Mallinson)
Wednesday / LLC 750.01/GWST 495/ 695: Research Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies (McCann)
Thursday / LLC 600: Language, Literacy and Culture II (Bickel)
LLC 611: Constructing Race, Class & Gender (Pincus)
Courses listed by number and course name:
Course / Instructor / Day and Time / RoomLLC 600: Language, Literacy and Culture II / Bickel / Thurs. 4:30 -7 / ACIV 422
LLC 601/MLL 601: Intercultural Pragmatics / Mallinson / Tues. 4:30-7:00 / Math/Psy105
LLC 606/SOCY 606: Social Inequality & Social Policy * / Adler / Mon. 4:30-7 / PUP 203
LLC 611/SOCY 611: Constructing Race, Class & Gender * / Pincus / Thurs. 4:30-7 / PUP 203
LLC 613, GWST 613/413, MLL 613/413: Language, Gender & Culture (Mallinson) / Mallinson / Mon. 7:10-9:40 / FA 306
LLC 650: Ethnographic Methods / Mallinson / Tues. 7:10-9:40 / ACIV 422
LLC 750.01/GWST 695/495: Research Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies / McCann / Wed. 4:30-7:00 / ACIV 207
LLC 750.02 Cultural and Media Theory for LLC * / Saper / Mon. 4:30-7 / ACIV 422
LLC 648/890: Academic and Research Writing & Research Proposal Seminar / Truscello / Tues. 4:30-7 / ACIV 422
LLC 891 Service-Learning Internship
LLC 892 Directed Independent Study
LLC 898 Pre-Candidacy Doctoral Research
LLC 899 Dissertation Research / Choose the section with the faculty member with whom you have arranged to take on of these courses.
All courses require LLC permission. LLC advisors will give permission for registration.
* Open to non-degree seeking students.
Check the Spring Schedule of Classes for additional courses offered by LLC participating departments as well as other UMBC graduate programs. LLC participating departments include:
Africana Studies; American Studies; Education; English; History; Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication; Sociology and Anthropology, and Gender and Women’s Studies.
Courses of particular interest in participating departments and programs:
AMST 630/410: Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture in the United States (Gonzalves) MW2:30-3:45
HIST 702: Historiography (Bouton) M 7:10-9:40pm
HIST 713: Civil Rights in America (Scott) Th 4:30-7
Spring 2012
LLC Special Topics Course Descriptions
LLC 750.01/GWST 695: Research Seminar in Gender and Women’s Studies
Dr. Carole McCann
The seminar will focus on the topic of feminist research methodologies. The seminar includes discussion of methodological issues central to conducting research about gender within the social sciences and humanities fields. The seminar will evaluate these debates through review of specific case studies. In addition, students will develop strategies for evaluating research and methodologies used by other disciplines in terms of their appropriateness for gender and women's studies scholarship.
LLC 750.02: Cultural and Media Theory for LLC
Dr. Craig Saper
We will study the key contemporary texts and theories in cultural and media studies. These contemporary theories offer challenges to the categories of the normal common mean, representation, and literacy. In presenting these alternatives, the specific readings present scholarly forms that include multiple voices, narrative, and collage. Students should prepare for the course with a background reading list on structuralism, semiotics, post-structuralism, and grammatology (i.e., the study of writing systems) before the first day of class. Contact instructor for permission.
Courses of interest in LLC participating departments
AMST 630/410: Cultural Policy and the Politics of Culture in the United States
Dr. Theodore Gonzalves
This course examines the historical development of cultural policy in the United States, especially in relation to the practical problem of achieving cultural equity within the public and private institutions of a multi-cultural political democracy. Special attention is paid to the cultural dynamics of certain periods and to interactions between the cultural systems and characteristics of various racial and ethnic groups, of cultural areas and regions and of occupational groups and socio-economic classes. Illustrative cultural materials embrace the graphic and plastic arts, dance, music, literature and various segments of popular culture. Analytical perspectives draw upon the disciplines of anthropology, cultural geography, folklore, history and linguistics.
HIST 702: Historiography
Dr. Terry Bouton
Examines a broad range of issues and debates in American historical writing.
HIST 495/713: Civil Rights in America
Dr. Michelle Scott
This is an advanced undergraduate/ graduate history seminar that explores and critiques recent readings in Civil Rights movement historiography. We will examine the extensive history of civil rights’ activities in the United States from the mid 19th to late 20th centuries. The readings will focus on the intersectionality of race, gender, and class used by contemporary civil rights historians. The course will include texts on women's rights and suffrage movements, anti-segregation actions regarding African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans, citizenship struggles in immigrant communities, as well as anti-discriminatory battles in the LGBT community.