SCHEDULE
Week
# 6 - October 2, 2008
"Looking for Comedy in
the Muslim World." Social functions of humor. Humor as Social Control
and/or Social Conflict. Part 1.
Week
# 7 - October 9, 2008
"Looking for Comedy in
the Muslim World." Social functions of humor. Humor as Social Control
and/or Social Conflict. Part 2.
Week
# 8 - October 16, 2008
FALL BREAK!
Week
# 9 - October 23, 2008
"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural
humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.
Week
# 10 - October 30, 2008
My culture, not yours! Ethnic
humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise.
Week
# 11 - November 6, 2008
My culture, not yours! Ethnic
humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. Part 2.
TAKE-HOME EXAM!!! (to be turned in on Nov. 29, 2008)
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