Course Number:

Credit Hours:

3

Course Title:

Cultural Studies

Course Description:

Introduces cultural studies as an interdisciplinary investigation of how modes and formations of difference among cultural practices are represented sociologically and historically in the social sciences and humanities. Is intended to elucidate debates among the various critical disciplines of the “human sciences” in regard to recent changes in the meaning and use of the term “culture” in history, sociology, literature, cinema studies, and politics. The form of this inquiry is critical. By this is meant that theory and method are conceived of qualitatively and as moments of conceptualization and self-reflection, and that the course draws on various literatures that now operate critically and self-critically at the intersection of the various academic fields including dialectics, structuralism and its critical variants, feminist theory, and writings on postcolonialism.