Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies is the exploration of the links between the arts and other human activities in complex societies. It includes both high art and popular culture, both ancient texts and new hypertexts.

Cultural Studies is interdisciplinary in its methodologies and in its goals of finding integrated and contextualized views of human cultural activities. It is centrally concerned with issues of identity and power, particularly relating to gender, ethnicity, class, and other sites of contestation.

Cultural Studies courses will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the myriad ways in which cultural texts and practices construct and reproduce representations of ourselves and our societies.

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Foundational courses for Cultural Studies

• MAIS 665: Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures

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Recommended courses within Cultural Studies

• ANTH 591: Ethnobiology: Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context
• HIST 632: Gender, Race, Racism, and the History of Classical Scholarship
• LTST 551: World Literature
• LTST 637: Black Atlantic Literature and Culture
• MAIS 616: Writing the Self: The Experience and Potential of Writing for Personal Development
• MAIS 617: Creative Non-Fiction
• MAIS 621: Narrative Possibilities: The Transformative Power of Writing, Story, and Poetry in Personal and Professional Development
• MAIS 625: Critical Perspectives in Cultural Studies
• MAIS 628: Gender and Sexuality
• MAIS 638: What I Tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism
• MAIS 640: Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond
• MAIS 662: Mourning and Trauma: Theoretical and Historical Debates
• MAIS 663: Critical Race Theory in Global Context
• MHST 620: Culture and Health: Critical Perspectives*
• POLI 550: Women, Equality, and Representation
• PSYC 630: Talking Cures: The Evolution of Psychotherapy
• SOCI 537: Deciphering Our Social Worlds
• SOCI 539: Sociology of War and Organized Violence
• WRNM 605: Creating Life Histories

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Currently closed for registrations

• ENVS 670: The Nature of Nature: Ecology, Non-human life, and Human Obligations
• GLST 611: Social Movements
• GLST 652: Democracy and Justice in the Context of Global Capitalism
• MAIS 658: Doing Disability Differently
• WGST 547: Rethinking Science and Technology: Gender, Theory, and Practice

Previous reading course topics

• Women and Psychology
• History of Anthropological Theory
• Sociology of Health and Environment

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Permanently closed courses within Cultural Studies

• CMNS 610: Transformatory Organizing
• CMNS 655: Journalists and Responsibility
• ENGL 633: Post-Colonial Drama
• ENGL 551: Comparative Canadian Literature
• ENGL 591: Cultural Studies - Directed Studies in Literature
• GLST 653: Women's Narratives from the Circumpolar North
• LTST 639: Human Perfectibility: Utopian and Pastoral Perspectives
• MAIS 618: English in Question: Critical Reflections on the Rise of a Global Language
• MAIS 622: Advanced Feminist Theory
• MAIS 626: Art and Crime
• MAIS 630: Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Sexuality
• MAIS 664: The Canadian Context of Critical Race Theory
• MAIS 656: Datascapes: Information Aesthetics and Network Culture
• MAIS 667: Studying Canadian Folk Musi