16.7 4th year Simon During. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will have:

• familiarity with contemporary analysis of global culture;
• an understanding of debates over 'cultural imperialism' and 'hybridity';
• a sense of how work on postcolonialism and work on globalisation fit together;
• an understanding of approaches to the history of global culture;
• an introductory grasp of a series of case studies in the history of global culture.

Today global communications systems and cultural technologies like the internet and satellite TV are extending their reach. This subject analyses globalisation by asking such questions as: is it another form of cultural imperialism or will it allow new modes of cultural hybridisation? What will be the role of national cultures in the future? Is there such a thing as a global popular culture? How do we historicise and theorise global culture? Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Verne J Around the World in Eighty Days Pan Course reader available from the department 16.7 4th year Simon During. Second semester One 2-hour seminar per week. Students who complete this subject successfully will have:

• familiarity with contemporary analysis of global culture;
• an understanding of debates over 'cultural imperialism' and 'hybridity';
• a sense of how work on postcolonialism and work on globalisation fit together;
• an understanding of approaches to the history of global culture;
• an introductory grasp of a series of case studies in the history of global culture.

Today global communications systems and cultural technologies like the internet and satellite tv are extending their reach. This subject analyses globalisation by asking such questions as: is it another form of cultural imperialism or will it allow new modes of cultural hybridisation? What will be the role of national cultures in the future? Is there such a thing as a global popular culture? How do we historicise and theorise global culture? Written work of not more than 6,000 words. Verne J Around the World in Eighty Days Pan Course reader available from the department