HUL891
| HUL891 | |
|---|---|
| Globalization and Transnationalism | |
| Credits | 3 |
| Structure | 2-1-0 |
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HUL891 : Globalization and Transnationalism
[edit]Globalization & Globalism, Nationalism & Transnationalism, Dicopora, Glocality. Globalisation and Transnational movements of people, ideas & technology, culture, capital and goods. Relationship between locality, national boundaries and transnationalism personal and collective identity. Transnational migration and global politics of gender and work in a global world- Dicopora. Religion and Ethnicity in a global world. The State and Democracy in a globalised world. HUL893 Literature and the City The course examines in some detail the nature of the challenge that traditionally preoccupied European writers - how to map the experience of the modern city, and what representational strategies were adequate for capturing the opacity, the fragmentation, and the transitory nature of urban modernity. It goes on to investigate the contemporary postcolonial city in order to understand it in relation to late capitalism, globalization, migration, and postmodern culture, and the challenges these pose to classic modernity. It begins by providing an introduction to some of the most important literature on the city and the major theoretical debates around it, offering students a set of conceptual tools with which to approach the city's incommensurable realities, its problems and its potential. It moves on to a detailed analysis of a number of literary texts, examining some of the ways in which the disjunctive realities of city-life shape new modes of experience, creative expression, and solidarity, without losing sight of the inequities of gender, culture, class, and race that persist and indeed strengthen in the current global economic system.HUp102 Research participation 1 Credit (0-0-1) This course will expose students to various experimental methodologies in sub-fields of Psychology and Psycho/Cognitive-linguistics. These will be behavioral experiments that will investigate theoretical questions (e.g., psychological questions related to perception, attention, emotion, choice behavior; psycho-linguistic questions related to sentence comprehension, sentence production, memory, attention, language-perception interaction). The course will illustrate ways in which theoretical/practical research query pertaining to human cognition is translated into a testable problem with the help of widely used behavioral methods. HUV731 Critical Reading 1 Credit (1-0-0) The course will introduce students to the tools of critical analysis of a variety of verbal texts – poetry, short stories, essays, non-fiction and academic writing. It will require students to study basic semiotics, and critical terms and study a variety of texts prescribed for the course. HUV734 Dimensions of Language 1 Credit (1-0-0) The course will provide a brief overview of the important contributions to the study of language, its origins, diversity, and its metaphysical, historical and political dimensions in order to attend to the multiple levels at which literature plays with and transforms language on the one hand, and is conditioned by on the other. A range of readings will be used to focus on: the relation between language use and a particular historical and social situation, and the work of literature in defining this relation; the politics of language with respect to state, religion, nation, gender and caste; subjectivity in language; metaphor and metonymy, literary stylistics and rhetoric; agrammaticality. HUV735 Narrative Matters 1 Credit (1-0-0) The course will acquaint students with the distinctions of formal and conversational, fictional and non-fictional narratives. Students will acquire the training to think about and conduct research on discourse by going beyond the story and plot and considering discourses in terms of salient narrative features such as narration, author, reception, motivation, tradition, and framing. The politics of culture, representation and the working of power can be better analysed with a mind to the role of narrative in action, communication and signification.