Cultural Studies (CULT)

Cultural Studies

320 Globalization and Culture (3:3:0) Examines relationship between cultures and globalization through texts and points of view. Starting from development of capitalism, looks at age of imperialism and colonialism, and finishing in present. Considers how dynamics of cultural change affected by globalization. Particular attention to extraordinary role of new media and technologies in defining and shaping the cultural spaces in which people live.

802 Histories of Cultural Studies (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to program, MA ÒfeederÓ track, or -permission of instructor. Required of all students. Historical survey of principal works and theories of cultural studies. Overview of contemporary situation of cultural studies, and assesses possibilities for 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 presentation of original and current research in cultural studies. Students register for 1 credit per semester over a three-semester period.

810 Culture and Political Economy (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to program or permission of instructor. Surveys 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 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. Investigates notion of gender functions in maintenance and analysis of issues of social and cultural power. Examines conflicting notions of sexuality and their role in cultural signification. Seeks to explicate relationship 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 culture of science, -social construction of nature, and effects of technology on modern cultural forms. 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 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 racial, ethnic, caste, and national identities in colonial contexts; scientific racism in Òperiph-eryÓ and ÒcoreÓ sites; subsequent history of race, ethnic, national identities and conflicts; classical and contemporary texts by authors such as DuBois, Fanon, Gilroy, and Spivak; and 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 to develop comprehensive coverage for specific fields as agreed on in with advisors. May be repeated.

880 Independent Study (1-3:0:0) Reading and research on specific topic, resulting in a written project. May be -repeated.

998 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal (1-6:0:0) Work on research proposal that forms basis for doctoral disser-tation. Students enrolling in 998 must have completed all cultural studies course work, fulfilled the foreign language requirement, and passed the comprehensive exam. 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 direction of dissertation committee. Graded S/NC.