FS 004 PZ -Tongue in Cheek: Humor in Art

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Tongue-in-cheek: Humor in Arts and Visual Culture In this course you will develop your skills as a writer/critical thinker while examining the topic of humor. Humor is an incredibly important vehicle for dealing with complex questions and one of the few forms that allows an author to communicate contradictory statements simultaneously. Humor has the ability to make something inaccessible, accessible or open up a taboo subject for discussion. In some cases humor is a political gesture. In this course we will examine humor through a critical interdisciplinary and intercultural lens. You will be responsible for developing written responses, critiques, oral presentations, performative projects, art and research.

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.