Description
This course introduces to key concepts in cultural studies. There is an elementary look at ‘classic’ texts in cultural studies –Kant, Marx, Freud– and then there is a move to the establishment of cultural studies as a discipline, looking at texts from the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham School, Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz and others. The rest of the course charts the areas modern Cultural Studies cover, looking at topics such as (new) media, consumption cultures, cyborgs, post-modernism, gender studies, etc.
Programme:
Week 1 Introduction to Culture
Week 2 Introduction to Key Concepts (pg. 1-16)
Week 3 Key Concepts (continued)
Week 4 Questions of Culture and Ideology (pg. 17-34)
Week 5 Questions of Culture and Ideology (continued)
Week 6 Culture, Meaning, Knowledge (pg. 35-41)
Week 7 Postmodernism (pg. 43-60)
Week 8 Postmodernism (continued)
Week 9 Sex, Subjectivity and Representation (pg. 63-80)
Week 10 Sex, Subjectivity and Representation (continued)
Week 11 Youth, Style and Resistance (pg. 81-97)
Week 12 Youth, Style and Resistance (continued)
Week 13 Review