Course Description

This course explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points along the U.S. social spectrum. It considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels, and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life …
This course explores the experiences and understandings of class among Americans positioned at different points along the U.S. social spectrum. It considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels, and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life and how it intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and gender.
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments with Examples
On a wooden tabletop, a black and white photograph of a distinguished-looking man wearing a bow tie rests beneath a pile of reel to reel tape boxes.
Studs Terkel’s collections of oral history such as Working and Race are considered classics in American storytelling. (Image courtesy of Dominican University on flickr. License CC BY.)