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

Paced study

paced study foundational courses

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

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Cultural Studies electives

Paced study

paced study cultural studies electives

ENVS 608 – Questioning Extinctions	(3)
ENVS 670 – The Nature of Nature: Ecology, Non-human life, and Human Obligations	(3)
GLST 611 – Social Movements	(3)
GLST 652 – Democracy and Justice in the Context of Global Capitalism	(3)
MAIS 616 – Writing the Self: The Experience and Potential of Writing for Personal Development	(3)
MAIS 617 – Creative Non-Fiction	(3)
MAIS 624 – Critical Approaches to Technology and Society	(3)
MAIS 628 – Gender and Sexuality	(3)
MAIS 658 – Critical Disability Studies: The Making of Normal Bodies	(3)
MAIS 662 – Mourning and Trauma: Theoretical and Historical Debates	(3)
MAIS 663 – Critical Race Theory in Global Context	(3)
NURS 620 – Culture and Health: Critical Perspectives	(3)
WGST 505 – Decolonizing Mental Health	(3)

Individualized study

individualized study cultural studies electives

ANTH 591 – Ethnobiology: Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context	(3)
HIST 632 – Gender, Race, Racism, and the History of Classical Scholarship	(3)
LTST 551 – World Literature	(3)
LTST 605 – Current Issues in Literary Studies	(3)
LTST 637 – Black Atlantic Literature and Culture	(3)
MAIS 621 – Narrative Possibilities: The Transformative Power of Writing, Story, and Poetry in Personal and Professional Development	(3)
MAIS 638 – What I Tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism	(3)
MAIS 640 – Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond	(3)
WRNM 605 – Creating Life Histories	(3)