Students will begin their studies with a historical/political perspective while still in Des Moines. Then they will travel for three weeks exploring ethnographically the evolution of consumerism in Poland. Trips to ad agencies and their clients will be interspersed with lectures at prominent universities. Major blocks of time will be spent in Warszawa (Warsaw), Gdansk and Krakow.
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