HIST 154 PZ -You Can’t Teach That

Institution: Pitzer

Description: You Can’t Teach That: An Essay on an Attempt to Re-Establish Academic Freedom. This seminar examines academic freedom by probing limits on the permissibility of speech, especially faculty speech, in US college classrooms during two eras: (i) the present and immediate past and (ii) the long twentieth century. Along with examining several case studies and reading key texts that make the case for academic freedom, the course 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, including Joshua Cohen’s 2021 novel, The Netenyahus, Radu Jude’s 2021 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 campus) and now (in 2023).

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

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