ANTH 154 PZ -You Can’t Teach That

Institution: Pitzer

Description: You Can’t Teach That: An Essay or an Attempt to Re-Establish Academic Freedom. This seminar examines academic freedom by probing limits on permissible speech at US colleges and universities, especially faculty speech, during two eras: (i) the present and immediate past and (ii) the long twentieth century. In addition to (i) examining several case studies of controversies over campus speech and (ii) reading key texts that make the case for academic freedom, the course also engages in the praxis of teaching important artistic, political, and scholarly works that push, or perhaps cross, the boundaries of permissibility for classroom teaching in our own time and place. These works include Joshua Cohen’s novel, The Netanyahus, Radu Jude’s film, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, and one or more ethnographic texts concerned with social worlds in which normative behavior would lead to severe sanctions if it occurred here (on our Claremont Colleges campus) and now (in spring 2023).

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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