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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

1-3

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

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