GER3655: Cultures of Control and Surveillance in Germany and the US
3 CreditsCivic Life and EthicsGoal 7 - Human DiversityHistorical PerspectivesMathematical/Logical ReasoningSustainabilityWriting & Information Literacy
Discourses and practices of social control and surveillance in comparative/historical perspective. Explores the central conceptual condition for modern ethics: the relationship between individual and society. Paintings, manuals, scholarly and philosophical essays, and literary texts including writings by Franz Kafka.