50-3301 Politics of Money

Initially examining two prominent commodities, food and weapons, this course looks behind these commodities purchased with money in order to see the social, political, and economic structures that produce them. Course interrogates the ways in which the money we spend works within an political-economic system that appears to be natural yet is saturated with social and political power. Using films, books, and articles, the course covers contemporary, historical, and theoretical understandings and ideological critiques of the political economy of money.

3 Credits
SS
PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1152HN Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors or 52-1122 International Writing and Rhetoric II