Faculty of Arts

Cultural Studies Courses

KS100 Culture in Historical Perspective 0.5

This course is a survey course in the history of culture as a human phenomenon and the intellectual history of the concept of culture from pre-history to the contemporary. Culture is viewed from a number of disciplinary perspectives across the humanities and sciences.

KS101 Culture in Thematic Perspective 0.5

The study of culture is a pluralistic activity that takes place not inside the narrow perimeters of a specific discipline but inside and throughout the multiple cultural discourses that surround us. In fact, the field of cultural studies has emerged from the challenges posed to traditional humanistic and social scientific agendas by new research strategies in visual studies; music, anthropology, ethnography and folklore; feminist studies; comparative sociology and politics; semiotics; social, cultural, literary and political theory; science studies; colonial discourse analysis; ethnic studies; and the histories of sexualities.

KS200* Analyzing Culture: From Theory to Practice to Criticism 1.0

A study of the fundamental theories, analytical techniques and critical practices of cultural studies.

Prerequisite: KS100 and KS101 or permission of instructor.

KS205 Cartoons and Comics 0.5

A study of cartoons and comics from the 18th century to the present, addressing such issues as the history of the genre, and its various roles from the political to the popular.

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