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!!!
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