HUM 454 - The Turn to Culture: Cultural Studies Theory and Practice

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Antioch University-System Administration

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Culture has become an increasingly important concept for understanding ourselves and the world, as well as an important arena for pursuing just social change. This course provides a wide-ranging survey of the history of Cultural Studies (CS) while focusing on the theories that have most informed CS, the concepts and language most often employed, and examples of CS in practice. From the beginning, CS has been highly political in nature and focused on the potentials for resistance in oppositional subcultures, first, valorizing the potential of working class cultures, then, youth subcultures to resist capitalist domination. As it developed, CS was informed by feminism, critical race theory, gay and lesbian theory, queer theory, and postmodern theory. Today CS is now focused on examining the ways that cultural texts promote sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression, or can be employed in resistance and struggle. The course provides students with tools for doing cultural critique and political analysis and cultural activism. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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