Studies in Personal, Societal and Environmental Change
FALL, Winter, Spring/Coordinated Study
Faculty: Dr. Willie Parson, Dr. Peter Bohmer, Dr George Freeman,
Enrollment: 120
Prerequisites: Sense of humor
This program investigates the spirit of comedy and humor as keys to understanding the values, anxieties and confidences of a society at two particular periods in history, Anciet Greece and Rome. and 20th United States. We first investigate theories of humor and comedy using readings from all the ancients and moderns. Next, we investigate all social indicators in these two periods by developing existential models of parameters and applying paradigmatic operands. Finally, we will critique humorous, satiric and comic works. There will be field trips to Athens and Rome where humor began, and Minnesota where modern humor ends.
Credit will be awarded in management, philosophy, literary and employment theory for a total of 48 credits.
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