SCHEDULE

Week # 6 - February 17, 2011
"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 3, 2011).

Week # 7 - February 24, 2011
"Your culture or mine?" Cross-cultural humor: joking relationships. Etic humor and emic humor.

Week # 8 - March 3, 2011
 Group presentations. In class evaluations and discussion (see Assignment #1).

Week # 9 - March 10, 2011
"My culture, not yours! Ethnic humor: its nature and functions. Popularity and demise. 

Week # 10 - March 17, 2011
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, 2011).
Assignment # 3 (take-home -- to be turned in March 31, 2011).

Week # 11 - March 24, 2011
SPRING BREAK!!!