Spring 2018 - SA 375 D100
Labour and the Arts of Living (A) (4)
Class Number: 11208
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 3 – Apr 10, 2018: Wed, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Jennifer Shaw
jeshaw@sfu.ca
Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-18:00
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Prerequisites:
SA 101 or SA 150 or SA 201W.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Introduces sociocultural approaches to labour by examining the relationship between work and life in different parts of the world. Students will be given opportunities to reflect on their own working lives and aspirations for future employment. Topics include precarity, informality, unemployment, wageless life, work and citizenship, and post-work politics. Students who have taken SA 360 in Spring 2014 or Spring 2016 may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
The ways in which labour is unevenly experienced, distributed, remunerated, and defined can reveal much about the contemporary social, economic, and political conditions of neoliberalism and capitalism. In this course we will explore diverse contexts where paid and unpaid labour intersect with everyday life through modes of carrying on, persistence, play, compassion, care, and transformation. Through a range of readings, writing assignments, and class discussions students will be encouraged to reflect on the relationship between labour and living in various ethnographic contexts and in their own lives.
Grading
- Participation & facilitation 20%
- Weekly reading journals 20%
- Take-home analytical essays 30%
- Final research paper 30%
NOTES:
Grading: Where a final exam is scheduled and you do not write the exam or withdraw from the course before the deadline date, you will be assigned an N grade. Unless otherwise specified on the course outline, all other graded assignments in this course must be completed for a final grade other than N to be assigned.
Academic Dishonesty and Misconduct Policy: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology follows SFU policy in relation to grading practices, grade appeals (Policy T 20.01) and academic dishonesty and misconduct procedures (S10.01‐ S10.04). Unless otherwise informed by your instructor in writing, in graded written assignments you must cite the sources you rely on and include a bibliography/list of references, following an instructor-approved citation style. It is the responsibility of students to inform themselves of the content of SFU policies available on the SFU website: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student.html.
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Arendt, Hannah. (1998). The Human Condition. 2nd Ed. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
ISBN: 978-0226025988
Muehlebach, Andrea. (2012). The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN: 978-0226545400
Other readings will be available through the SFU Library.
Registrar Notes:
SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://students.sfu.ca/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS