3-3-0

This course is an introduction to the historical development and theoretical methodologies of cultural studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry. We will investigate the processes by which the "literary text" has been extended to and participates within a broader array of cultural products. We will pay careful attention to the transformations of popular culture into highly commercialized mass culture and to the role of new representational technologies that have effected this change (advertising, film, television, internet, music, etc.), as well as their power to produce beliefs and create identities.

Prerequisite: One of English 102, English 106, English 234, English 236, Sociology 105 or permission of instructor.

Professor Malley

Offered every year