2011-12 Catalog

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Offering Description

Surveillance as a Mode of Governance

Summer 2012 quarter

Faculty
Trevor Griffey U.S. history
Fields of Study
American studies, government, history, law and government policy, media studies and political science
Description

This program will study surveillance as a mode of governance by exploring the portrayal of the surveillance state in literature, film, social science literature, and U.S. history from World War I to the War on Terror. The primary work of the program will involve different kinds of close readings of texts. Each week, students will collectively analyze government surveillance documents, watch and discuss a film, and write a review essay on a book they read. The final week of the program will be devoted to student individual or group projects in surveillance studies broadly defined.

Advertised Schedule
10a-4p Mon, 12-4p Wed, 10a-1p Thu/Fri (Jun. 25 - Jul. 27)
Location
Olympia
Online Learning
Enhanced Online Learning
Books
Greener Store
Offered During
Day