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Cultural Studies (Interdepartmental Program)

Convenors: Jodi Brooks and Chris Healy (Dept of English)

The Faculty of Arts offers an interdepartmental program in Cultural Studies housed in the Department of English. The program allows students to study the interrelationships of popular, national and class cultures and sub-cultures, as they are formed in and through the contemporary print media, broadcasting, film and popular music.

The program combines interdepartmental course-work in the methodologies of cultural studies as a discipline. It also provides opportunities for concentrated study of specific areas of cultural production, and specific issues in and sites of cultural politics, including those of nation, class, gender, ethnicity and race. It addresses questions about the social functions of culture, the institutions in which culture is produced and transmitted, and its role in the formation of identities.

Requirements of a major:

For a major in Cultural Studies students are required to pass five subjects, totalling 83.3 points, in the following way:

All students must complete the foundation subject 106-290/390 Contemporary Cultural Studies. Of the remaining 4 subjects, or least three should be taken from the list of second or third year subjects below. Where students elect to take only three subjects from this list, one subject may be taken from the list of "Optional Departmental Subjects".

Entry to Honours:

Students wishing to enrol in a Combined Honours course in Cultural Studies are required to reach an average standard of H2A or above in the Cultural Studies major.

First Year:

Students interested in undertaking a major in cultural studies are strongly advised to enrol in both of the following subjects, but they are not formal prerequisites for second year Cultural Studies. Students who intend to continue working in the postcolonial strand of the program are advised to enrol in the following subject, though again it is not a formal prerequisite for second year Cultural Studies.

Second Year and Third Year Cultural Studies subjects: