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Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 
    
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Undergraduate Record 2007-2008 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ISHU 335 - Close Encounters with American Culture: Alien Imagery in Contemporary Popular Discourse

“The truth is out there” – and the truth is that in many ways UFOs and concepts of the alien (and the extraterrestrial) have come to constitute a quintessential part of contemporary grassroots American mythos.  This course explores the dynamics of UFO-based cultural discourse in contemporary American life.  Students will ask profound and probing questions about the construction of cultural discourse in both twenty-first century American society and throughout the evolution of American history. (IR)

Credits: 3