INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES
LECTURES MAIN TOPICS:
1. DEFINITION AND NEGOTIATION
2. ONLINE CLASS: Culture or CultureS and Cultural Relativism
3. IDEOLOGY - an introduction
4. Psychoanalysis - MIND THEORIES
5. Introduction to Question of Identity
5a. Online class - "who are you"? and "what is a privilege"?
6. Structuralism and Postructuralism
7. FEMINISM - History of women?
8. Gender and sexuality - HETERONORMATIVITY?
9. Race and post-colonialism - THE OTHER
10. Postmodernism - IRONY, GAME AND IDENTITY
2. ONLINE CLASS: Culture or CultureS and Cultural Relativism
3. IDEOLOGY - an introduction
4. Psychoanalysis - MIND THEORIES
5. Introduction to Question of Identity
5a. Online class - "who are you"? and "what is a privilege"?
6. Structuralism and Postructuralism
7. FEMINISM - History of women?
8. Gender and sexuality - HETERONORMATIVITY?
9. Race and post-colonialism - THE OTHER
10. Postmodernism - IRONY, GAME AND IDENTITY
WHAT IS THE COURSE ABOUT?
•This course engages both the theory and the practice of cultural studies as it began to take shape in university media studies programs in the 1970s, first in Britain, and eventually in the U.S.
•The course reviews the basic concepts that inform the cultural studies approach: ideology, semiotics, race and ethnicity, gender, resistance, and others.
• It also looks at how cultural studies changed the way scholars saw popular media. Rather than reject mass culture outright, the cultural studies approach sought to appreciate popular culture as the expression of everyday consciousness and even as a site of cultural resistance.
•The course thus is not about intercultural communication nor about studying other cultures. It instead is about a movement that gained momentum in the 1970s, took popular culture seriously instead of dismissing it outright, and influenced how an entire generation of scholars discussed and looked at popular film, television, music, and other cultural forms.
Course Goals and Objectives: This course introduces a historical overview of the cultural studies approach, with a special emphasis on the relevance of this approach to understanding media and popular culture
Learning Objectives: By the end of the course, you should be able to
•Analyze and explain major theories that both influenced and came out of cultural studies and its approach to popular culture
•Apply one or more concepts of cultural studies to a unique research problem that you know well, and that you have identified and described on your own
•Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies theory to new situations and practices relevant to your everyday experience
•Synthesize two or more major cultural studies theories to demonstrate a new insight into media and popular culture
•The course reviews the basic concepts that inform the cultural studies approach: ideology, semiotics, race and ethnicity, gender, resistance, and others.
• It also looks at how cultural studies changed the way scholars saw popular media. Rather than reject mass culture outright, the cultural studies approach sought to appreciate popular culture as the expression of everyday consciousness and even as a site of cultural resistance.
•The course thus is not about intercultural communication nor about studying other cultures. It instead is about a movement that gained momentum in the 1970s, took popular culture seriously instead of dismissing it outright, and influenced how an entire generation of scholars discussed and looked at popular film, television, music, and other cultural forms.
Course Goals and Objectives: This course introduces a historical overview of the cultural studies approach, with a special emphasis on the relevance of this approach to understanding media and popular culture
Learning Objectives: By the end of the course, you should be able to
•Analyze and explain major theories that both influenced and came out of cultural studies and its approach to popular culture
•Apply one or more concepts of cultural studies to a unique research problem that you know well, and that you have identified and described on your own
•Demonstrate the practicality of cultural studies theory to new situations and practices relevant to your everyday experience
•Synthesize two or more major cultural studies theories to demonstrate a new insight into media and popular culture