CCAS 258Laughter, Political Humor, and Social Control
Chicana/o and Central American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Limited to graduate students. Investigation of power of political humor, one social practice that constructs discriminatory hierarchies in interpersonal settings and mass media. With goal of developing set of principled methods to investigate its manifestations, reading of outstanding humanistic contributions across history of its social function and power, development of classification of types and settings of political humor, and critical evaluation of recent social scientific models of its nature.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
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