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Major in Cultural Studies Majors in Cultural Studies must complete 42 units of course work, including the introductory course (3 units), the methodology course (3 units), required courses (15 units), either a capstone project or a capstone/internship combination (6 units), and 15 units of elective courses. Introductory Course CLST 201
INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL STUDIES
3
METHODS OF CULTURAL INQUIRY
3
CLST 301
PERSPECTIVES IN GLOBAL CULTURE
3
CLST 303
IDENTITY AND CULTURE
3
CLST 307
VISUAL CULTURE
3
CLST 311
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE
3
CLST 370
TOPICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
3
Methodology Course CLST 300 Required Courses
Capstone Experience Select one of the following:
6
CLST 497 & CLST 495
CAPSTONE PROJECT IN CULTURAL STUDIES and INTERNSHIP IN CULTURAL STUDIES (3 units of each)
CLST 497
CAPSTONE PROJECT IN CULTURAL STUDIES (6 units)
Electives See below
15
Total Units
42
Electives 15 units of courses from the following groupings, 9 of which must be upper division. A list of offered courses will be updated each term. The following learning modules are meant to indicate possible thematic trajectories as a guide for students. As such, courses may be listed under more than one heading. CLST 490
INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CULTURAL STUDIES (limited to 3 units)
3
Society of the Spectacle The courses in this module are meant to theorize the intersection of traditional and contemporary media and consumer cultures. In contemplating a broad spectrum of “spectacles,” students will consider the economic, political, and social discourses of visual culture and performance. ANTH 325
MORAL PANICS
3
ANTH 382
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3
ANTH 341
INFORMATION AGE CULTURES
3
ARTH 328
ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
3
CLST 309
PERFORM CULTURE
3
ENGL 463
SEMIOTICS: THE STUDY OF SIGNS
3
KNES 353
SPORT & SOCIETY
3
MCOM 101
INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION
3
MCOM 352
MEDIA CRITICISM
3
MCOM 385
MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY
3
THEA 310
THEATRE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
3
Cultural Cartographies The courses in this module examine the cultural products that result from human landscapes, charting the ways in which we map our interaction with the environment. ANTH 207
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3
ANTH 351
DRUGS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ANTH 364
RELIGION, MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT
3
ANTH 368
GLOBALIZATION IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ANTH 380
ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD METHODS
3
ARTH 330
EAST ASIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
3
ARTH 331
ART OF CHINA
3
ARTH 333
ART OF JAPAN
3
CLST 305
TEXT & CULTURE
3
ENGL 471
TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE
3
GEOG 357
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
3
GEOG 381
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
3
MUSC 112
WORLD/AMERICAS, AFRICA
3
MUSC 113
WORLD/E.EURO,ASIA
3
PHIL 204
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
SOCI 243
SOCIOLOGY OF RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
THEA 316
THEATRE OF CROSSING CULTURES
3
Critical Pedagogies This module is ordered around one central premise: knowledge is never neutral. As such, these courses call into question the construction of knowledge; interrogate the traditional means of passing on cultural knowledge; and recognize alternative forms of knowledge and the processes by which they are disseminated. ARTH 328
ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
3
ARTH 335
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
3
ARTH 339
LATIN AMERICAN ART: 1800 TO PRESENT
3
ARTH 341
WOMEN IN ART
3
ENGL 462
MODERN LITERARY THEORY
3
ENGL 463
SEMIOTICS: THE STUDY OF SIGNS
3
KNES 251
HISTORY OF SPORT IN AMERICA
3
MUSC 112
WORLD/AMERICAS, AFRICA
3
MUSC 113
WORLD/E.EURO,ASIA
3
MUSC 127
ELEMENTS OF THE HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC
3
PHIL 201
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
3
PHIL 204
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
PHIL 343
AESTHETICS
3
WMST 337
FEMINIST THEORY
3
Political Economies of Empire The courses within this module investigate the relations of corporate, political, economic and cultural forces in the context of 21 st century globalization. The courses assess factors such as: wealth distribution, the disappearance of “local” culture, labor and labor exploitation, the military and globalization, environmental issues, and new notions of empire. ANTH 346
WEALTH, POWER AND POLITICS IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ANTH 351
DRUGS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ANTH 368
GLOBALIZATION IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ECON 201
MICROECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
3
ECON 202
MACROECONOMIC PRINCIPLES
3
ECON 321
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
3
ECON 331
GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC LIFE
3
ECON 341
LABOR ECONOMICS AND LABOR RELATIONS
3
ECON 374
ECONOMIC ISSUES OF GENDER
3
ECON 375
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
3
KNES 460
CULTURAL ECONOMY OF SPORT
3
SOCI 249
SOCIAL PROBLEMS
3
SOCI 323
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
3
SOCI 333
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
3
SOCI 341
CLASS, STATUS AND POWER
3
WMST 335
WOMEN, WORK, AND FAMILY
3
Critical Artscape The courses in this module critically examine visual aspects of society. ARTH 323
MODERN ART I
3
ARTH 324
MODERN ART II
3
ARTH 325
HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
3
ARTH 327
HISTORY OF MODERN DESIGN
3
ARTH 328
ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
3
CLST 305
TEXT & CULTURE
3
ENGL 462
MODERN LITERARY THEORY
3
PHIL 343
AESTHETICS
3
Posthumans in Second Nature The courses in this module consider the ways in which advances in genetics and the reproductive sciences have raised questions about our identities and human beings and our relation to nature, blurring divisions between human and non-human, culture and nature, animal and machine. ANTH 341
INFORMATION AGE CULTURES
3
ANTH 368
GLOBALIZATION IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
3
ARTH 351
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
3
ENVS 301
PEOPLE AND PESTS
3
ENVS 337
THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ITS WATERSHED
3
PHIL 319
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & VALUES
3
SOCI 312
SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
3
Postcolonial Contexts The courses in this module foster discussions of various conditions in which western and non-western cultures collide. In the postcolonial context, the formation of identity is understood as a result of resistance to imposing and powerful cultural forces. ANTH 353
LATINAS IN THE AMERICAS
3
ARTH 328
ART, CULTURE AND POLITICS
3
CLST 309
PERFORM CULTURE
3
ENGL 336
POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE
3
ENGL 462
MODERN LITERARY THEORY
3
KNES 285
SPORT: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
3
PHIL 204
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
Wild and Docile Bodies This module features courses that approach the body as the point of conjunction between the individual and society and therefore as a site of control, study, discipline, punishment and emancipation. Students in these courses will examine the cultural, political and economic technologies active within, and which act upon, the corporeal aspects of everyday life. ARTH 341
WOMEN IN ART
3
ARTH 335
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
3
CLST 309
PERFORM CULTURE
3
HLTH 220
SEXUALITY IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY
3
KNES 353
SPORT & SOCIETY
3
LGBT 101
INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES
3
LGBT 381
READINGS IN LGBT STUDIES
PHIL 204
RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
SOCI 243
SOCIOLOGY OF RACE, CLASS AND GENDER
3
SOCI 312
SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
3
WMST 336
WOMEN AND MEDICINE
3
WMST 338
WOMEN AND SEXUALITY
3
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Suggested Four-Year Plan Freshman Term 1 CLST 201
Units 3
Lower-Division Elective
Term 2
Units
CLST 311
3
Lower-Level Elective
3
TSEM 102 (Core 1)
3
ENGL 102 (Core 2)
3
Core
3
Core
3
Core
3
Core
3
Core
3
15
15
Sophomore Term 1
Units
Term 2
Units
CLST 301
3
CLST 307
3
CLST 303
3
CLST 370
3
Core
3
Upper-Level Elective
3
Core
3
Core
3
Core
3
Core
3
15
15
Junior Term 1
Units
Term 2
Units
CLST 300
3
CLST 495 or 497
3
Upper-Level Elective
3
Elective
3
Core/Elective
3
Elective
3
Core/Elective
3
Elective
3
Core/Elective
3
Elective
3
15
15
Senior Term 1
Units
Term 2
Units
CLST 495 or 497
3
Upper-Level Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
Elective
3
15
15
Total Units 120
1. Use a working critical vocabulary to do textual and ethnographic analyses of cultural phenomena, showing an understanding of both verbal and visual texts, students own everyday experience, and the inter-relatedness of social, political, historical, and economic components of their worlds. 2. Through writing, convey an understanding of a variety of critical strategies (e.g. semiotics, content analysis, structuralism) applicable to cultural studies cross-disciplinary core. 3. Acquire the habits and attitudes of an inquiring mind, for looking into questions of culture in ways that resonate with students’ lives and finally even beyond these lives, into an awareness of ethical, cognitive, and emotional issues that may at first seem foreign to their own systems of cultural values. 4. Evaluate critically the sources and content of information. This goal is listed among the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Expectations Regarding Information Literacy and Technological Competency. 5. Understanding and applying relevant discipline-specific methodologies and strategies of inquiry. 6. Engaging intellectually and seeking to understand the experiences and views of people with different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, whether in their own country or abroad. Cancel