SCHEDULE
Week
# 6 - September 29, 2010
"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 March 3, 2010).
Week
# 7 - October 6, 2010
"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 March 10, 2010).
Week
# 8 - October 13, 2010
FALL BREAK!!!
Week
# 9 - October 20, 2010
"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural
humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.
Week
# 10 - October 27, 2010
My culture, not yours! Ethnic
humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. Part .
Week
# 11 - November 3, 2010
"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 17, 2010).
Assignment # 3 (take home -- to be turned in November 17, 2010).
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