Intro to Cultural Studies

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in cultural studies. Emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed and responded to in diverse ways. This course follows Cultural Studies from its inception at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham in postwar Britain, to its present loosely defined formation. As students become more familiar with how the scholars of previous generations used Cultural Studies, they will develop the skills to begin develop their own cultural studies research agenda.