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Cultural Studies (CLST) 201

Cultural Studies and Everyday Life (Revision 2)
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Status:

Open

Delivery mode:

Individualized study online with Video component (Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component)

Credits:

3

Areas of study:

Arts or Social Science

Prerequisites:

None

Course start date:

If you are a:

  • Self-funded student: register by the 10th of the month, start on the 1st of the next.
  • Funded student: please check the next enrolment deadline and course start date.

Precluded:

None

Challenge:

CLST 201 is not available for challenge.

Faculty:

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Overview

Cultural Studies 201: Cultural Studies and Everyday Life is a junior-level, three-credit course that takes as its organizing metaphor, Raymond Williams' remark that “culture is ordinary.” This course will provide an introduction to cultural studies by exploring, reflecting on, and evaluating how, on a daily basis, we are immersed in culture.

Objectives

  • To demystify the idea of “culture” by showing the ways in which it permeates our everyday lives.
  • To question the distinction between things deemed to be cultural and things assumed to be natural.
  • To explore the ways in which everyday culture can be a site of contestation.

Outline

CLST 201 consist of the following six units.

  • Unit 1: Culture is Ordinary
  • Unit 2: Domestic Cultures
  • Unit 3: Workplace Cultures
  • Unit 4: Recreational Cultures
  • Unit 5: Culture and Community
  • Unit 6: Culture, Experience, Identity

Evaluation

To receive credit for CLST 201, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least a D (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

Activity Weight
Assignment 1 20%
Assignment 2 20%
Assignment 3 25%
Assignment 4 35%
Total 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.

Materials

Fedorak, Shirley. Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. (Print)

Peter Weir (Director). The Truman Show. Paramount, 1998. (AU Library) (Audio/Video)

Gurinder Chada (Director). Bend It Like Beckham. 20th Century Fox, 2002. (AU Library) (Audio/Video)

Kinka Usher (Director). Mystery Men. Universal, 1999. (AU Library) (Audio/Video)

Reading the Everyday by Joe Moran (eBook)

Culture and Everyday Life by David Inglis (eBook)

All other course materials are available online.

Important links

  • Academic advising
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Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.

Opened in Revision 2, November 5, 2018

Updated August 9, 2023

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