Sections offered SPRING 2022:
#10733 |
TIM FORT |
TuTh 11:30 AM–12:45 PM |
HH 4030 |
CLASS NOTES: Class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
This course tries to take a step deeper in looking at what appeals to the affective dimension of human nature, especially with respect to our actions when conducting business.
In this course, we look at four such sources, each embedded within culture. One of those is play. Sports provides a great window into the ways in which we ethically (and spiritually) grow. The second is religion itself: how do religions provide the norms for cultures around the world that people rely on for cues of how to behave? The third is music. Music appeals to our emotions and is idiosyncratic to individuals and cultures It has also been called the universal language and so it provides a capstone to our inquiry. The fourth is film, which is a venue uniquely suited to conveying themes from all of these artifacts.
In this course, we want to examine these cultural touchstones, recognizing the high stakes that are involved in them and to leave the course with a better understanding of the cultural norms that inform culture and that also provide ways for cultures to find common ground, especially in business.