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.
To see the courses from the lists below that are being offered in upcoming semesters, please refer to the course schedule on the program website.
Foundational courses
Grouped study
MAIS 665 | Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures | (3) |
Cultural Studies electives
Grouped study
ENVS 670 | The Nature of Nature: Ecology, Non-human life, and Human Obligations | (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 625 | Critical Perspectives in Cultural Studies | (3) |
MAIS 628 | Gender and Sexuality | (3) |
MAIS 658 | Doing Disability Differently | (3) |
MAIS 662 | Mourning and Trauma: Theoretical and Historical Debates | (3) |
MAIS 663 | Critical Race Theory in Global Context | (3) |
MHST 620 | Culture and Health: Critical Perspectives | (3) |
POLI 550 | Women, Equality, and Representation | (3) |
Individualized study
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