CES285 — Comedy as Resistance
5 CR Previously AMST 285. Explore how comedy, humor, and satire are used to address social problems and push back against dominant culture. Students will examine historic and contemporary comedic forms such as blackface minstrelsy, political cartoons, and stand-up comedies and analyze how they have been used to critique and disrupt social-cultural stereotypes and inequities. We will also investigate the boundaries, politics, and different distinctions around something being “just a joke.” Satisfies either Social Science or Humanities credit. Course