Course Objectives:

* Students will deepen their ability to read critical/theoretical texts in cultural studies, with an
emphasis on rigorous enquiry.

* Students will become familiar with the debates and discourses surrounding postmodernism,
posthumanism, and poststructuralism.

* Students will hone their ability to make connections between theory and cultural practices.

* In engaging postmodern theory and culture, students will expand and develop their analytical
vocabulary in Cultural Studies, developing their analyses of culture through oral and written
modes of communication.

 

© 2007 - Ann Hetzel Gunkel
agunkel@colum.edu