Advanced Contemporary Approaches to Literary and Cultural Studies

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Offers an in-depth exploration of current debates or methodological trends within a subfield of literary and/or cultural studies. Highlights and involves students in the processes through which academic researchers advance knowledge in diverse fields of cultural study. Readings include influential recent and/or historical critical, theoretical or interdisciplinary texts that develop a line of inquiry or set the boundaries or supports for an arena of scholarly debate. Often through case studies, provides students in all fields of literary, cultural and adjacent fields of study a model for mapping intellectual debates within a field and advancing scholarship reflecting movements within the fields of literary and cultural studies.