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

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