Cultural Studies (CULT)
Cultural Studies
802 Histories of Cultural Studies (3:3:0). Prerequisite:
Admission to program, to M.A. "feeder" track, or permission of instructor.
This course required of all students. Provides a historical survey of
the principal works and theories of cultural studies. Offers an overview of the
contemporary situation of cultural studies and assesses the possibilities for
its future development.
806 Research Seminar in Cultural Studies (3:3:0). Prerequisites:
Admission to program and CULT 802. Introduction to research methods in cultural
studies. Specific topics vary.
808 Student/Faculty Colloquium in Cultural Studies (1:1:0).
Prerequisite: Admission to program or permission of instructor. Forum
for the presentation of original and current research in cultural studies. Students
register for one credit per semester over a three-semester period.
810 Culture and Political Economy (3:3:0). Prerequisite:
Admission to program or permission of instructor. Designed to survey many
of the social science and humanities classics that relate cultural production
and consumption to underlying political economic conditions: from Marx to Lukacs
to the Frankfurt School, from work in semiotic neo-Marxism to productivist theories
of power indebted to Foucault, and taking in such diverse sources as Baudrillard,
Bourdieu, Harvey, Jameson, Mauss, Mill, Polanyi, Sahlins, A. Smith, and Weber.
812 Visual and Performance Culture (3:3:0). Prerequisite:
Admission to program or permission of instructor. Examines theories of visual
culture, covering such topics as film, video, visual arts, music, display, ritual,
performance, performativity, theories of the aesthetic, as well as their production,
consumption, and reception. Key readings from theorists such as Adorno, Artaud,
Benjamin, Brecht, Bryson, Doane, Fiske, Heath, Marcuse, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
814 Gender and Sexuality (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission
to program or permission of instructor. Interrogates the various ways in
which the notion of gender functions both in the maintenance and in the analysis
of issues of social and cultural power. Examines conflicting notions of sexuality
and their role in cultural signification. At the same time, the course seeks to
explicate the relation between sexuality and gender.
816 Science/Technology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission
to program or permission of instructor. Considers theories of and major debates
about the culture of science, the social construction of nature, and the effects
of technology on modern cultural formskey concepts for many areas of cultural
studies. Readings from such theorists as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Feyerabend,
Bahro, Haraway, and Latour.
818 Social Institutions (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Admission
to program or permission of instructor. Considers theories of institutional
practice and social structures, from Max Weber to Michel Foucault. Covers such
key topics for cultural studies as prisons, bureaucracies, museums, schools, political
parties, and social movements.
820 After Colonialism: Race, Ethnicity, Nationalism (3:3:0).
Prerequisite: Admission to program or permission of instructor. Surveys
the making of racial, ethnic, caste, and national identities in colonial contexts;
the roles of scientific racism in both "periphery" and "core"
sites; the subsequent history of race, ethnic, national identities and conflicts;
classical and contemporary texts by authors such as DuBois, Fanon, Gilroy, and
Spivak; and the particular place of issues of national, racial, and ethnic identities
in contemporary cultural studies.
860 Special Topics in Cultural Studies (1-3:1-3:0). Prerequisite:
Admission to program or permission of instructor. Specialized
interdisciplinary topics in cultural theory and analysis. Content varies. May
be repeated.
870 Directed Readings (3:0:0). Intensive reading course aimed
at developing comprehensive coverage for specific fields as agreed on in consultation
with student's advisors. May be repeated.
880 Independent Study (1-3:0:0). Reading and research on a
specific topic, resulting in a written project. May be repeated.
998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (1-6:0:0). Work on a research
proposal that forms the basis for the doctoral dissertation. Students enrolling
in 998 must have completed all cultural studies course work, fulfilled the foreign
language requirement, and passed the comprehensive examination. Course may be
repeated once for credit. Graded S/NC.
999 Doctoral Dissertation (1-12:0:0). Prerequisites: Completion
of CULT 998 and public presentation of the dissertation proposal. Doctoral
dissertation research and writing under the direction of the student's dissertation
committee. Graded S/NC.
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