HNRS 128
Humor as Means of Social Control
Description: Seminar, four hours. Designed for College Honors students. Application of venerable humanist insights and social scientific thinking to contemporary social phenomenon of human laughter and humor. While Aristotle and Hobbes thought humor was bad for society, Locke and Bahktin would have disputed them for different reasons. Integration of their ideas and ideas of evolutionary anthropology and linguistics, as well as social and biological science, to critically evaluate how social scientists investigate mass media political satire of today. Letter grading.
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Spring 2025 - Amazing professor, considering it was my first upper-division honors course through Honors Collegium. I had a great time in this class, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a course that is entirely dependent of reading literature/lecture slides and willing to put in the effort to work towards a term paper due at the end which comes close to about 20 pages. It's a pretty doable course if willing to put in the effort. Professor Santa Ana is very caring and compassionate to working with students and will go out of his way to help you.
Spring 2025 - Amazing professor, considering it was my first upper-division honors course through Honors Collegium. I had a great time in this class, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a course that is entirely dependent of reading literature/lecture slides and willing to put in the effort to work towards a term paper due at the end which comes close to about 20 pages. It's a pretty doable course if willing to put in the effort. Professor Santa Ana is very caring and compassionate to working with students and will go out of his way to help you.
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