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SMU-IN-TAOS: CULTURAL FORMATIONS A 3325
SMU-IN-TAOS: HISTORY 3379
Culture in New Mexico
This course utilizes houses and real estate as a way to think about cultural continuity, change and conflict in Northern New Mexico.Readings:
Reader of Essays (available through the SMU Bookstore in Dallas)
Marjorie Garber, Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses; William DeBuys, Enchantment and Exploitation, J.B. Jackson, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time, Agnes Lufkin Reeve, From Hacienda to Bungalow: Northern NM Houses 1850-1912; Lois Palken Rudnik, Utopian Vistasa: Mabel Dodge Luhan and the American Counterculture
Recommended: Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of An Idea
Books are available through the SMU bookstore in Dallas and through Amazon.com and other online booksellers. You will need to purchase the books as soon as possible since you will use them to write the first paper for the course which is due JULY 25, a week before the first week of class.
3 credit hours
NOTE: CF courses taken during reduced Taos
summer semesters require completion of course readings prior to arrival. Faculty
members will email students with assignments prior to the beginning of
the semester.
This course fulfills the General Education co-requirement in Human Diversity.
Instructor: Alexis McCrossen
Tuition: $2,025
Fees: $125
Room/Board: $1,241