SCHEDULE

Week # 6 - October 1, 2009
"How many anthropologists does it take to screw in a light-bulb? Culture codes and conceptualization of humor. Conditional and non-conditional jokes.
Assignment # 1 (take home -- to be turned in on October 22, 2009).

Week # 7 - October 8, 2009
"Thank You for Smoking." Social functions of humor. Humor as Social Control and/or Social Conflict.
Assignment # 2 (take home -- to be turned in on October 22, 2009).

Week # 8 - October 15, 2009
FALL BREAK!  

Week # 9 - October 22, 2009
"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.

Week # 10 - October 29, 2009
My culture, not yours! Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. 

Week # 11 - November 5, 2009
My culture, not yours! Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. Part 2.

EXAM # 2!!! (take home (to be turned in on November 19, 2009).
Assignment # 3 (take home -- to be turned in on November 19, 2009).