ICSM Politics and Comedy: United and Divided in Laughter
Library Instruction Objectives
Course Description: What is the relationship between politics and comedy? Does politics shape comedy, or does comedy inform politics? Can these two “ways of knowing,” living and sharing, help or hinder democratic life? In what ways are these two genres, concepts, and practices uniting and dividing people simultaneously? This course will explore these questions, among others, as we examine the following themes: Politics and Comedy: a Historical Perspective; the Political Economy of Comedy; the Comedy of Politics; the Social-Cultural of Political Comedy; and Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Comedy: The Future?
Library Session Learning Objectives:
- Discover Library resources and services and how to ask for help.
- Evaluate source types (books, scholarly articles, tweets, etc.) and when best to use them.
- Find and access a books and articles using the Library Search.
- Generate citations in the Library Search.
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