Cultural Studies

Minor Requirements - 18 Credits

Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field in which the traditional concerns of the arts and sciences intersect. Cultural studies' understanding of "cultural" includes objects and practices (popular or mass culture, for example) not normally associated with the definition of culture as art or "taste." Cultural studies is a method which interprets cultural productions (for example: film, fashion, food, popular music, architecture and cityscapes) as if they were texts. The minor will familiarize students with the critical traditions underlying the cultural studies approach and its roots in such disciplines and schools as anthropology and folklore, feminism and post-structuralism, the Frankfurt and Birmingham schools. Students will also learn to employ a critical interpretive vocabulary in analyses of cultural productions.

Required Minor Credits - 9 hours

HUM 130 Introduction to Cultural Studies (3)

ENG 347 Cultural Theory (3)

ENG 495 Advanced Cultural Studies (3)

Elective Minor Credits - 9 hours

Elective credits may be chosen from any category, with the advance approval of the minor's advisor. The student will be expected to work closely with the minor advisor to choose a concentration area and sequence of courses tailored to her particular interests. Courses taken in the concentration area must bear at least two prefixes. Two of these courses must be taken at the 300-400 level.