CULTURAL STUDIES & NEW MEDIA (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: LO1 – explain cultural studies as a discipline; LO2 – identify research agenda in Cultural Studies; LO3 – compare and contrast theories that constitute the basic framework of cultural studies such as the Frankfurt School, Birmingham School, Feminist critique, Postmodernism, Post-Marxism, etc; LO4 – analyze cultural texts from a variety of critical perspectives; LO5 – analyze popular culture both as social practices of meaning-making and in relation to political practice.

Topics:

1. Introduction to Cultural Studies and ideology;
2. Critical theories;
3. Semiology and encoding/decoding;
4. Representing Subculture and Counterculture;
5. Colonialism and decolonialization;
6. Gender and Sexuality;
7. Race, Class and Identity;
8. Culture and Economy Globalization;
9. Cultural Industries and New Media;
10. Cyberculture;
11. Digital Identity;
12. Youth and Popular Cultures;
13. Final Project.