Privacy, Surveillance, Power

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This interdisciplinary seminar examines the contested history, politics, and culture of privacy and surveillance in the United States across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alongside relevant legal and theoretical writings, we’ll consider literary fiction by George Orwell and David Eggers; films by Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Jonze, and Laura Poitras; and multimedia art by Trevor Paglen—among many others.