SCHEDULE

Week # 6 - February 17, 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 - February 24, 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 - March 3, 2010
  "Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.

Week # 9 - March 10, 2010
"My culture, not yours! Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. 

Week # 10 - March 17, 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 March 31, 2010).
Assignment # 3 (take home -- to be turned in March 31, 2010).

Week # 11 - March 24, 2010
SPRING BREAK!!!